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Joe Perez1 day ago
here's something silly that I 100% vibecoded and the ridiculous LinkedIn post to go with it
linkedin.com/posts/joe--perez_github-jperez3followback-a-tool-to-help-share…
linkedin.com/posts/joe--perez_github-jperez3followback-a-tool-to-help-share…
Joe Perez4 days ago
Hello again! Back this week with another post about being unemployed 😂 ordisi.us/posts/2026_5_unemployment
Yash B9 days ago
Hey everyone! 👋
Quick follow-up on FineScale (finescale.ai) for anyone who missed the last post!
We’ve recently added new AI-driven recommendation capabilities to help teams automatically right-size Kubernetes workloads and eliminate over-provisioning across EKS, AKS, GKE, and self-hosted clusters.
If K8s cost optimization or multi-tenant visibility is on your roadmap this quarter, check out finescale.ai.
Would love any feedback or thoughts from the community—feel free to drop a line below or DM me directly! 🚀
Quick follow-up on FineScale (finescale.ai) for anyone who missed the last post!
We’ve recently added new AI-driven recommendation capabilities to help teams automatically right-size Kubernetes workloads and eliminate over-provisioning across EKS, AKS, GKE, and self-hosted clusters.
If K8s cost optimization or multi-tenant visibility is on your roadmap this quarter, check out finescale.ai.
Would love any feedback or thoughts from the community—feel free to drop a line below or DM me directly! 🚀
Joe Perez10 days ago
Hello Friends! Sharing some thoughts on how I kept my job as long as I did and how it may help you in your current situation 🙏🏽 ordisi.us/posts/2026_4_layoffs
Mousa16 days ago
Are you a leader? You'll find this useful on how to approach security related budgeting problem.
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/ale-budget
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/ale-budget
Raman Varma17 days ago
Hey all! We just launched Kestrel Workflows and would love to get feedback from the community.
Kestrel is an AI automation layer for platform engineering teams. It turns natural-language prompts into deterministic workflows that automate incident response, infra provisioning, CI/CD, security, and developer requests.
It supports 30+ integrations across infrastructure, PaaS, AI compute, observability, on-call, networking, databases, CI/CD, and IaC, plus custom HTTP APIs and webhooks for anything else.
It's also developer-first with a CLI, Python SDK, and MCP server so you and your coding agents can build and manage workflows from the terminal or in code.
Would appreciate any feedback/support on our launch posts: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7483212042355712000 / ycombinator.com/launches/R4u-kestrel-ai-agents-for-platform-engineering
You can also try it out with up to $1,000 in usage credits at usekestrel.ai !
Kestrel is an AI automation layer for platform engineering teams. It turns natural-language prompts into deterministic workflows that automate incident response, infra provisioning, CI/CD, security, and developer requests.
It supports 30+ integrations across infrastructure, PaaS, AI compute, observability, on-call, networking, databases, CI/CD, and IaC, plus custom HTTP APIs and webhooks for anything else.
It's also developer-first with a CLI, Python SDK, and MCP server so you and your coding agents can build and manage workflows from the terminal or in code.
Would appreciate any feedback/support on our launch posts: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7483212042355712000 / ycombinator.com/launches/R4u-kestrel-ai-agents-for-platform-engineering
You can also try it out with up to $1,000 in usage credits at usekestrel.ai !
Asjad khan18 days ago
Hey all,
This might be a great article for infrastructure teams managing LLM costs at scale. The provider evaluation section is quite useful: same model, different providers, meaningfully different cache hit rates and eval scores.
ito.ai/blog/measuring-100b-tokens-week-open-weight-models
This might be a great article for infrastructure teams managing LLM costs at scale. The provider evaluation section is quite useful: same model, different providers, meaningfully different cache hit rates and eval scores.
ito.ai/blog/measuring-100b-tokens-week-open-weight-models
Marvin Strangfeld18 days ago
Classic path to prod
Mousa19 days ago
Might be interesting article for those in the EU. As you know, EU passed recently a controversial amendment to what's popularly known as "EU Chat Control".
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/eu-chat-control
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/eu-chat-control
Shruti Mangal22 days ago
Hello, Does anyone here work in the DevOps domain at PayPal, US?
I am looking for a connection there, for help with a job req.
I am looking for a connection there, for help with a job req.
Chi24 days ago
Hey everyone, Chi here 👋
Quick update on the AI Infra Summit 2026 (Sept 15–17, Santa Clara Convention Center) — a lot has changed since I last posted and wanted to flag it for anyone who missed it.
tl;dr: free tickets still available for engineers and technical leaders at qualifying enterprises and hyperscalers, worth $3,297, no catch.
What's dropped since last time:
🔷 Five Diamond Sponsors now confirmed - AWS, Intel, Qualcomm, Ambarella, and Oracle
🎤 Speaker additions worth knowing about:
• Jeff Dean — Chief Scientist & Technical Lead, Gemini (Google DeepMind)
• Peter DeSantis — SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon & Quantum Computing (Amazon)
• Lip-Bu Tan — CEO (Intel)
• Ian Buck — VP, Hyperscale & HPC Computing (NVIDIA)
• Santosh Janardhan — VP, Infrastructure (Meta)
• Daniela Rus — Director, CSAIL (MIT)
• Jonathan Hurst — Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer (Agility Robotics)
• 400 total across 8 stages
🆕 Also new this year is a dedicated Physical AI track covering humanoid robotics, autonomous systems and deployment. It's the first time we've done this at the summit.
We're 10 weeks out and spots are filling fast, so if you've been sitting on this, now's the time.
Apply: reg.kisacoresearch.com/submissions/696a168d8f1a0de3e1c774d9/69735576d4072b89834401d9
Full agenda: ai-infra-summit.com/2026agenda
DM me or drop a comment if you have any questions, I'm happy to help 🙌
Quick update on the AI Infra Summit 2026 (Sept 15–17, Santa Clara Convention Center) — a lot has changed since I last posted and wanted to flag it for anyone who missed it.
tl;dr: free tickets still available for engineers and technical leaders at qualifying enterprises and hyperscalers, worth $3,297, no catch.
What's dropped since last time:
🔷 Five Diamond Sponsors now confirmed - AWS, Intel, Qualcomm, Ambarella, and Oracle
🎤 Speaker additions worth knowing about:
• Jeff Dean — Chief Scientist & Technical Lead, Gemini (Google DeepMind)
• Peter DeSantis — SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon & Quantum Computing (Amazon)
• Lip-Bu Tan — CEO (Intel)
• Ian Buck — VP, Hyperscale & HPC Computing (NVIDIA)
• Santosh Janardhan — VP, Infrastructure (Meta)
• Daniela Rus — Director, CSAIL (MIT)
• Jonathan Hurst — Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer (Agility Robotics)
• 400 total across 8 stages
🆕 Also new this year is a dedicated Physical AI track covering humanoid robotics, autonomous systems and deployment. It's the first time we've done this at the summit.
We're 10 weeks out and spots are filling fast, so if you've been sitting on this, now's the time.
Apply: reg.kisacoresearch.com/submissions/696a168d8f1a0de3e1c774d9/69735576d4072b89834401d9
Full agenda: ai-infra-summit.com/2026agenda
DM me or drop a comment if you have any questions, I'm happy to help 🙌
Rohit Shahi26 days ago
Hey SweetOps! If you're the one dealing with data pipeline reliability and now getting pulled into RAG or LLM data work, this might be worth your time.
There's a hands on workshop on August 1 with Nikola Ilic, called "Designing Data Engineering Workflows for LLM Applications."
You build a full production ready pipeline live during the session, ingestion, chunking, metadata, embeddings, vector storage, retrieval, and evaluation. It also covers the batch versus incremental refresh question, along with versioning and monitoring once things are live, the same operational concerns you already deal with, just applied to RAG pipelines instead of traditional infrastructure.
You walk away with the source code, slides, and hands on lab files, plus a recording and certificate.
4 hours, code first throughout, Python and basic API/JSON familiarity required.
Full details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-data-engineering-workflows-for-llm-applications-hands-on-tickets…?aff=sop1
There's a hands on workshop on August 1 with Nikola Ilic, called "Designing Data Engineering Workflows for LLM Applications."
You build a full production ready pipeline live during the session, ingestion, chunking, metadata, embeddings, vector storage, retrieval, and evaluation. It also covers the batch versus incremental refresh question, along with versioning and monitoring once things are live, the same operational concerns you already deal with, just applied to RAG pipelines instead of traditional infrastructure.
You walk away with the source code, slides, and hands on lab files, plus a recording and certificate.
4 hours, code first throughout, Python and basic API/JSON familiarity required.
Full details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-data-engineering-workflows-for-llm-applications-hands-on-tickets…?aff=sop1
Bruno Andrade26 days ago
Anyone building/using AI agents to automate DevOps and SRE tasks? If yes, how are you handling memory?
Would love to have a quick chat about this
Would love to have a quick chat about this
Jim Park28 days ago(edited)
Hi there, it's been a minute, but I would like to share something I've been working on to help me manage my at-home projects. Managing 10+ tabs was altogether too much to manage. Meet flotilla, a chief of staff for the n things you have going on. Free, opensource, and solves my problem maybe it'll help you with yours as well: jim80net.github.io/flotilla
paulm28 days ago(edited)
My free, open-source EC2 and RDS scheduler has supported multi-region, multi-account deployment since 2017.
I've just updated github.com/sqlxpert/lights-off-aws to let Terraform users in big AWS organizations increase deployment concurrency instead of accepting conservative defaults. Advanced users can deploy to non-uniform region, organizational unit and AWS account combinations, rather than to the simple Cartesian product, regions × OUs.
This feature request came all the way from a user in Finland, who was kind enough to write a basic PR.
I re-checked AWS's official solution, Instance Scheduler. Despite Instance Scheduler's complexity, broad permissions, and external dependencies, AWS still wasn't providing immutable releases as of June, 2026.
If you share my belief that simplicity is security, and if you care about independently-written alternatives to corporate software, please give Lights Off a try.
I've just updated github.com/sqlxpert/lights-off-aws to let Terraform users in big AWS organizations increase deployment concurrency instead of accepting conservative defaults. Advanced users can deploy to non-uniform region, organizational unit and AWS account combinations, rather than to the simple Cartesian product, regions × OUs.
This feature request came all the way from a user in Finland, who was kind enough to write a basic PR.
I re-checked AWS's official solution, Instance Scheduler. Despite Instance Scheduler's complexity, broad permissions, and external dependencies, AWS still wasn't providing immutable releases as of June, 2026.
If you share my belief that simplicity is security, and if you care about independently-written alternatives to corporate software, please give Lights Off a try.
Addy29 days ago
Hi everyone!
I'm currently partnering with Micro1, which is looking to onboard companies with 30–200 employees in the US, Europe, or LATAM for its Enterprise Data Partnership program.
If your company has well-documented processes and workflows and is interested in exploring a partnership with a leading AI company, I'd be happy to share more details and the referral link.
If this sounds relevant to your company or one you know, feel free to send me a DM.
I'm currently partnering with Micro1, which is looking to onboard companies with 30–200 employees in the US, Europe, or LATAM for its Enterprise Data Partnership program.
If your company has well-documented processes and workflows and is interested in exploring a partnership with a leading AI company, I'd be happy to share more details and the referral link.
If this sounds relevant to your company or one you know, feel free to send me a DM.
Mousa30 days ago(edited)
I have a question. I heard multiple stories about a scam scheme where US citizens are used as proxies for getting a job in the US. Question is, why does someone need a US citizen for work? (Forgive me if this is a noob question). I'm EU/UK based, so I don't know about this problem in particular.
Mousaabout 1 month ago
erikabout 1 month ago
Mousaabout 1 month ago
I wrote an article not long ago which I think might be interesting for this community. Happy to hear your thoughts or ideas. Always open to discussions.
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/smb-common-mistake
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/smb-common-mistake
erikabout 1 month ago
TIL: Codex has quota resets.
Bruno Andradeabout 1 month ago
hey everyone!
I'm sure AI agents is something everyone is looking at leveraging to help troubleshoot problems
I put an MVP in place and made it available here
I'm sure AI agents is something everyone is looking at leveraging to help troubleshoot problems
I put an MVP in place and made it available here
Mousaabout 1 month ago
I wrote an article about tools saturation. Give me please your thoughts
https://blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/stop-developing-tools/
https://blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/stop-developing-tools/
Hao Wangabout 1 month ago
In the recent updates of Claude Code, the old models are added back, which seems to show its new model Fable 5 is gone forever.
Simple Pollabout 1 month ago(edited)
are you pretending to work hard recently in AI era?
Hao Wangabout 2 months ago
if you like soccer, I feel this world cup is different, better, more entertaining even in group matches
Hao Wangabout 2 months ago
a quick thought if it helps: AI should not be used during a midnight upgrade or migration, if AI is used, a new maint window should be required
Josh Pollaraabout 2 months ago
Stategraph is having its next demo day on the 24th.
This one's a deep dive on how Stategraph actually works under the hood, plus a look at Stategraph Cost. We'll get into how the dependency graph is stored in the schema, how surgical reads let you pull individual outputs via
Sign up here (pants optional): https://stategraph.com/demo-day
This one's a deep dive on how Stategraph actually works under the hood, plus a look at Stategraph Cost. We'll get into how the dependency graph is stored in the schema, how surgical reads let you pull individual outputs via
terraform_remote_state instead of locking the whole state, and how blast radius uses the graph to show exactly what a change touches before you apply.Sign up here (pants optional): https://stategraph.com/demo-day
Hao Wangabout 2 months ago
I’m testing the new model of Claude
Fable 5 hope it will surprise meHao Wangabout 2 months ago
the goal of Anthropic is to get everybody on 200$ plan and then push now 200 to 1000 even more
Rohit Shahiabout 2 months ago
Hey everyone! Sharing something that's directly relevant to anyone running LLM agents in production.
We're hosting a hands on Agent Evals Bootcamp on June 27 with Ammar Mahanna, PhD, an AI engineer, researcher, educator and expert in production AI and agent evaluation. Someone who actually builds and evaluates production AI systems professionally.
The bootcamp is 4 hours live and you build 10 real evaluation notebooks on the day covering component level evaluation, outcome evaluation, LLM as judge, regression pipelines and production evaluation workflows. You leave with frameworks you can plug into your own systems from day one, not just course notes.
Most people building agents spend weeks tweaking prompts and swapping models but have no real way to measure what is actually better. This bootcamp fixes that.
Every attendee also gets 30 days recording access and a Packt endorsed certification that goes straight on your LinkedIn.
Full details here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agent-evals-bootcamp-tickets-1990306501323?aff=swops
We're hosting a hands on Agent Evals Bootcamp on June 27 with Ammar Mahanna, PhD, an AI engineer, researcher, educator and expert in production AI and agent evaluation. Someone who actually builds and evaluates production AI systems professionally.
The bootcamp is 4 hours live and you build 10 real evaluation notebooks on the day covering component level evaluation, outcome evaluation, LLM as judge, regression pipelines and production evaluation workflows. You leave with frameworks you can plug into your own systems from day one, not just course notes.
Most people building agents spend weeks tweaking prompts and swapping models but have no real way to measure what is actually better. This bootcamp fixes that.
Every attendee also gets 30 days recording access and a Packt endorsed certification that goes straight on your LinkedIn.
Full details here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agent-evals-bootcamp-tickets-1990306501323?aff=swops
erikabout 2 months ago
PSA remember to tokenmax between now and 6/15 when Anthropic kills the Pro Max all you can eat buffet.erikabout 2 months ago
@dude I've been kicking the tires on Hermes Agent. Questions for you.
Hao Wang2 months ago(edited)
Hao Wang2 months ago
the more apps I developed, the less optimistic I think AI can bring to job market
Hao Wang2 months ago
with AI, it is easy to try different technologies, recently I used supabase to build a mobile app 🙂
Bruno Andrade2 months ago
hey everyone
I've put together an "SRE assistant" that you can run locally to help you troubleshoot and automate processes. The way I built it, it uses the memory and learnings from previous interactions and self-improves over time
Any thoughts/feedback would be super appreciated:
https://github.com/raia-live/sre-sample
I've put together an "SRE assistant" that you can run locally to help you troubleshoot and automate processes. The way I built it, it uses the memory and learnings from previous interactions and self-improves over time
Any thoughts/feedback would be super appreciated:
https://github.com/raia-live/sre-sample
Hadi Farnoud2 months ago
Sharing a supply-chain hardening pass I did on a Kubeagent CLI, partly hoping to get holes poked in the threat model. (Disclosure: I build KubeAgent — agentless K8s monitor/remediator; runs from your
The npm worm wave (Shai-Hulud, then Mini Shai-Hulud across npm+PyPI) made me treat a dependency compromise as when, not if. What I landed on:
Reduce likelihood
• OIDC trusted publishing — killed the long-lived
•
• Every third-party GitHub Action pinned to a full commit SHA, not a moving tag (post-tj-actions/CVE-2025-30066); first-party
• Dep tree kept to 7 direct packages so an advisory is actually reviewable; lockfiles +
Reduce impact (the part I most want critique on)
• The tool holds no cluster credential server-side — no SA token, no stored kubeconfig, no inbound path. So a poisoned dependency’s blast radius is bounded to the operator machine that already has
Where I think I’m weakest: that last point bounds lateral movement but a malicious dep still runs with the operator’s local privileges — so it’s a reduction, not elimination. Am I framing that honestly, or overselling? And for those publishing CLIs from a private monorepo: provenance attestations aren’t possible (npm requires a public source repo) — how are you giving consumers verifiability without open-sourcing the backend?
does this reassure you? was this even a concern for you? genuinely want the pushback. 🙏
kubectl context, no in-cluster agent, no kubeconfig sent anywhere.)The npm worm wave (Shai-Hulud, then Mini Shai-Hulud across npm+PyPI) made me treat a dependency compromise as when, not if. What I landed on:
Reduce likelihood
• OIDC trusted publishing — killed the long-lived
NPM_TOKEN (the exact credential those worms exfiltrate to self-propagate); releases now auth with a short-lived per-run GitHub token•
ignore-scripts=true so dependency postinstall/preinstall hooks don’t execute on install• Every third-party GitHub Action pinned to a full commit SHA, not a moving tag (post-tj-actions/CVE-2025-30066); first-party
actions/* on majors• Dep tree kept to 7 direct packages so an advisory is actually reviewable; lockfiles +
npm ci onlyReduce impact (the part I most want critique on)
• The tool holds no cluster credential server-side — no SA token, no stored kubeconfig, no inbound path. So a poisoned dependency’s blast radius is bounded to the operator machine that already has
kubectl, rather than a centrally-held secret an attacker can pivot through.Where I think I’m weakest: that last point bounds lateral movement but a malicious dep still runs with the operator’s local privileges — so it’s a reduction, not elimination. Am I framing that honestly, or overselling? And for those publishing CLIs from a private monorepo: provenance attestations aren’t possible (npm requires a public source repo) — how are you giving consumers verifiability without open-sourcing the backend?
does this reassure you? was this even a concern for you? genuinely want the pushback. 🙏
RB2 months ago
Rohit Shahi2 months ago
Hey Everyone,
This Saturday I'm building 10 AI projects in 5 hours with Claude Code
You can join this too !
Luca Berton is leading the session live, 5 hours of pure hands-on work
No slides. No theory dumps
Every session ends with a shipped project
Here's what we're building:
→ CLI tools
→ Full UI from a screenshot
→ CLAUDE.md project brain files
→ Test suites and refactor workflows
→ Production readiness reviews
→ Git discipline with AI-generated code
I'll also walk away with 10 downloadable Claude Skills and a Packt-endorsed certificate
I'll share everything I learn after
🔗 You can register too : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/claude-code-bootcamp-tickets-1988549372704?aff=sl2
🎁 Coupon Code: PACKT40
This Saturday I'm building 10 AI projects in 5 hours with Claude Code
You can join this too !
Luca Berton is leading the session live, 5 hours of pure hands-on work
No slides. No theory dumps
Every session ends with a shipped project
Here's what we're building:
→ CLI tools
→ Full UI from a screenshot
→ CLAUDE.md project brain files
→ Test suites and refactor workflows
→ Production readiness reviews
→ Git discipline with AI-generated code
I'll also walk away with 10 downloadable Claude Skills and a Packt-endorsed certificate
I'll share everything I learn after
🔗 You can register too : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/claude-code-bootcamp-tickets-1988549372704?aff=sl2
🎁 Coupon Code: PACKT40