Optimize All The Things Bartłomiej Płotka & Ivan Valkov
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Welcome to OAT!
Join us to discuss ideas and tools that make our software and development processes faster, more efficient, and healthy! We talk about performance improvements and valuable optimizations to software development processes like testing, debugging, running in production, open-sourcing or collaborating. Learn from experts how they improved their products, engineering processes or life habits and apply those in your work!
Hosted in the UK by two software engineers: Ivan Valkov, the aspiring fantasy writer/chef/entrepreneur and Bartek Płotka, the OSS maintainer (you might know him from the CNCF Prometheus project) and “Efficient Go” book author.
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Profiling, AI, and Creating a Startup Culture: Insights from PolarSignals' Founder Frederic Branczyk
In this episode, we sit down with Frederic Branczyk, founder of PolarSignals, to explore the intersection of advanced profiling techniques, AI-driven optimizations, and the nuances of building a successful startup culture. Frederic shares his journey from a technical contributor to a startup leader, offering insights into both the technological and business aspects of running a tech company.
Where to find more about Frederic and Polar Signals:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederic-branczyk/X - https://x.com/fredbranczMastodon - https://hachyderm.io/@branczPolar Signals - https://www.polarsignals.com/Parca - https://github.com/parca-dev/parca/FrostDB - https://github.com/polarsignals/frostdbPolar Signals Seed announcement - https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2024/03/12/ai-funding-and-exciting-customersLet's Profile YouTube series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tScFlySdSAc&list=PLhTDiyZ1B3JkDCzGKp_3K3J-au054MQ_z
Where to find Bartek:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bwplotka/X - https://x.com/bwplotka
Where to find Ivan:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-valkov/X - https://x.com/ivvalkov
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Optimizing SW Adoption & Maintenance: API Compatibility Guarantees with Björn Rabenstein
Today we have a very special guest, Björn Rabenstein, ultra experienced engineer, long time Prometheus maintainer. In this episode we touch on the topic of versioning and backward or forward compatibility of software APIs and interfaces. Learn how to make your code nice for others or use versioned components effectively for yourself. We discuss semver, and why you also seen many projects, escaping this model with lifetime version of v0. The main topic starts at 18m35s. References:
No lens camera: https://futurism.com/the-byte/camera-no-lens-location-ai
Crab: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36122270
Paying for GH stars: https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-stars?utm_source=unknownews
Stack Overflow seeing lower traffic: https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/ai-news/stack-overflow-chatgpt/?utm_source=unknownews
Nvidia passes 1 trillion $ of evaluation: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/30/nvidia-chipmaker-value-ai-chip-shares-artificial-intelligence
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Optimizing Productivity with Mindfulness, Self-Compassion & Motivation
In this episode we discuss an important topic of productivity in our live and work. We explore often forgotten topic of motivation for our work, self-compassion, energy balance to tackle tedious tasks and healthy habits for software development, meetings and more! We also touch on the topic of social media use. References:
Amazon Prime moving out of AWS Lambda: https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90
Leaked memo, AI alone is not a moat: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
Epic, inspiring episode about embracing death (Limitless): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11714334/
Atomic Habits Book: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits
Rollup Meeting Notes Template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AHgEyaNdI0YQgPnxDqF1BD1K8b-VJzFOgBAoS4IhSJo/edit
Beautifully edited by amazing Yanitsa Spassova! As always, feedback and questions are welcomed! You can use this form - https://forms.gle/NmUGeqMtyP6H6mMP9 -
Optimizing Freedom as a Digital Nomad with Becky Pauley
Working from a tent, prioritizing your electricity between your monitor or cooking dinner, canal boat life, and more. These are some of the things we talked about with Becky Pauley at KubeCon Europe 2023. This episode covers all the great things about the digital nomad lifestyle, but also dives into some of the challenges. Join us for the interesting story and stay for the helpful tips. As always, before the main part we cover some of the news that got our attention in the previous weeks.References:
Our amazing guest, Becky Pauley: https://twitter.com/BeckyPauley
Reddit's API going paid: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/18/23688463/reddit-developer-api-terms-change-monetization-ai
Reddit's Apollo reader thread on effects of pricing change: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12srosz/reddit_api_going_paid_what_are_the_changes_we/
A Completely Non-Technical Explanation of AI and Deep Learning: https://www.parand.com/a-completely-non-technical-explanation-of-ai.html
YC Winter 2023 Batch summary: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-winter-2023-batch
Another columnar DB: XTDB 2.0: https://www.xtdb.com/v2
Apache Arrow: https://arrow.apache.org/
Talking to dead people with AI: https://futurism.com/ai-dead-woman-talk-people-funeral?utm_source=unknownews
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Optimizing Cloud Native by Interviewing KubeCon EU Attendees: Efficiency, AI adoption, WASM, eBPF
In this episode we do a little retrospective on the last week KubeCon EU 2023 in Amsterdam. We also share and discuss amazing answers from a few quick interviews Bartek performed with epic KubeCon attendees. You won't believe what we learned! Big THANKS to all interviewees for amazing answers: Christina, Harsh, Michael, Jimmy and Raphaël!
References:
KubeCon EU: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/
Observability Day: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/observability-day/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2ORxwcjTn4RLAOQOYjvQ2A3
Efficient Go book: https://bwplotka.dev/book/
Mentoring Opportunities (as mentee, but also to mentor): https://github.com/cncf/mentoring
WASM: https://webassembly.org/
GitLab AI: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/03/16/what-the-ml-ai/
eBPF: https://ebpf.io/
authzed/spicedb: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb
Running DB in browser: https://authzed.com/blog/some-assembly-required
OpenTelemetry: https://opentelemetry.io/
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Optimizing SRE Productivity with AI feat. Alex Jones, founder of k8sgpt
AI is already changing how different industries operate with tools like ChatGPT and Github Copilot. Today we talk about a new tool, k8sgpt, that gives you SRE superpowers using AI. We are joined by its creator, Alex Jones - Director of Kubernetes Engineering at Canonical. We talk about how tools that utilize AI are built, how they change our day to day work, and what the future might hold for AI in the workplace. And as always we cover the news of the week before we dive into the interview.
References:
Alex Jones - https://twitter.com/AlexJonesax
K8sGPT: https://k8sgpt.ai/
Amazon Bedrock: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/
Amazon Code Whisperer: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-codewhisperer-free-for-individual-use-is-now-generally-available/
Hacking Cars with CAN injection: https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/?utm_source=unknownews
Phind, ChatGPT for devs - https://www.phind.com/
OSS Funding via Thanks Dev - https://thanks.dev/home
Github Accelerator’s first cohort - https://github.blog/2023-04-12-github-accelerator-our-first-cohort-and-whats-next/
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