#random - July 2026

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 🙌

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.

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

Classic path to prod

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

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 !

Are you a leader? You'll find this useful on how to approach security related budgeting problem.
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/ale-budget

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

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! 🚀

Hello again! Back this week with another post about being unemployed 😂 ordisi.us/posts/2026_5_unemployment

https://zachholman.com/posts/cold-email

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…