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At the core of effective engineering leadership is the ability to stay connected with your team. This is perhaps the most challenging aspect because retaining the respect of your people is difficult unless you remain technically involved yourself. In my journey as an engineering leader, staying true to the individual contributor role that originally earned their respect has kept me close. This approach extends beyond technical expertise; it's about maintaining a deep connection with the core activities that propel product development forward at Gearflow. One of my biggest professional fears is becoming irrelevant or disconnected from my team and our work. This fear motivates me to continually reinvent and retool in response to market demands. Next month, I'll be sharing about my adventures generating synthetic data recently. And while I'm no expert when I start preparing for these talks, the process is incredibly valuable. It's less about delivering a perfect talk and more about how the preparation expands my thinking and exposes me to new capabilities. This helps me connect the dots to opportunities at Gearflow that bring real innovation to our customers. Speaking regularly holds me accountable and pushes me to learn ahead of the curve, ensuring I remain relevant and impactful day-to-day. Every talk is a journey of discovery, helping me to lead with humility, communicate clearly, and inspire a culture of innovation through a deep, technical understanding of our work.

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What does shard-per-core architecture involve and why does it matter for teams who value database performance? We've taken three different perspectives from Dor Laor, Bo Ingram, and Tzach Livyatan to help explain how it contributes to #ScyllaDB's predictable performance at scale. https://lnkd.in/evbKsn74 #NoSQL #lowlatency #database #techtips

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Another excellent post from our own ShemTov Fisher, this one offers some insights in the business of monitring platforms and optimization tools. And ends with a nice list if recomeded tools to rock your infra. Enjoy! #castai #datadog #perfectscale #kubernetes #keda

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Read about how Paxos is using Bazel and BuildBuddy to speed up their builds! Their P99 runtimes for uncached builds dropped from 50 minutes to 10 minutes. https://lnkd.in/eEvPMQ9e

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Great interview with the folks from Techstrong TV and Rory Blundell from Gravitee. Gravitee Federated APIM is taking the API world by storm…and for good reason! Listen to the interview to learn more 🎧 #AnyAPI #AnyGateway #AnyBroker

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Exploring Gloo Gateway's API Management Capabilities In this video, we dive deep into the powerful API management features of Gloo Gateway and how it enhances the Kubernetes Gateway API https://lnkd.in/eiYhYzQW

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Not only is platform engineering adopting the automation and cost savings of StormForge, but more and more developers are excited about increasing reliability of their workloads. Learn more about our most recent product updates at KubeCon.

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Exactly one month ago, Intuit's Kalyan Kolachala (Director, Product Development), gave a Lightning Talk: Federated Search Over Distributed Observability Data at #ArgoCon | #KubeCon EU. In this talk, he gives insight into the use of technologies like, #OpenTelemetry, #ApacheArrow and #ApachePresto and how it can be used to improve speed, performance and significantly bring down Observability costs (for compute, networking and storage) and illustrates the same using a case study from Intuit. https://lnkd.in/gnv3vESJ #Intuit #IntuitOpenSource #OpenSourceCommunity #Observability #OpenSource #CloudNativeCon

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We are pleased to announce that you can now achieve up to an aggregate 1.3 million I/O operations per second (IOPS) and 12 GB/s throughput per OCI compute instance with the OCI Block Volume Service. In addition, you can also attach up to 32 Ultra High Performance (UHP) volumes to a single OCI compute instance. This service update is particularly useful for high I/O workloads, such as OLTP, AI/ML, data warehousing and analytics, databases with large data sets and extensive complex processing. https://lnkd.in/eHErX5mC

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I am incredibly proud of everything MongoDB has achieved in the AI realm. We've integrated our advanced vector search capabilities with frameworks like LlamaIndex and LangChain to offer seamless access to top LLMs. And through strategic alliances with cloud giants and innovative AI startups, we're delivering amazing generative AI capabilities to customers across industries from personalised healthcare to intelligent document management. In this article, Gregory Maxson, our global AI lead talks about how we are delivering the solutions and inspiration that can turn our partners' most ambitious visions into reality. #MongoDB #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

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Prabath Siriwardena in this blog dives deep into how DevRev uses Auth0 by Okta for its authentication needs. When we started building the Identity stack at DevRev, we acknowledged authentication is a solved problem and we did not want to spend developer hours re-building what is now a commodity. 4 years in and after on-boarding several enterprise customers with varying login needs seamlessly we can look back and say the decision passed the test of time. For authorization we took a different route, we have built a very elaborate authorization stack in-house that sits on the critical data path and meets the performance, security and configurability needs of mature enterprises. The advent of AI has introduced new challenges, particularly in effectively implementing authorization policies within the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines that power conversational agents. Such a joy to read this one :)

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ICYMI, Google Cloud Platform and Technical Infrastructure Director, Jennifer Petoff, gave the opening keynote at DevOpsDays Zurich this year. You can check out the video here if you want to learn more about the importance of education in driving an SRE or DevOps culture.

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🚀 Our work on Anvil won the Best Paper award at OSDI 2024! 💡 This paper shows how to build practical, formally verified cluster management controller implementations for Kubernetes. That's right, we *prove* that a Kubernetes controller implementation written in Rust is correct and meets its liveness and safety goals, subject to a formal specification. Anvil was the last project from the cluster management research agenda I founded at VMware Research, and is the culmination of 7 years worth of lessons we learnt trying to build robust cluster managers. I wanted to give a shout-out to the dream team behind this work. The author list represents folks from industrial research and academia, with experts in cluster management, distributed computing theory and practice, programming languages, formal verification theory and practice, testing and systems reliability! Practical systems verification is a lofty goal, and you need a highly inter-disciplinary team like this one to push the frontier. ⭐ The star of the show was Xudong Sun, the lead PhD student on the project, who had to work at the intersection of ALL those areas above! He is absolutely *fearless*, one of the key marker traits of a successful systems researcher. Xudong will be on the academic and industrial research job market this year -- if you're on a hiring committee, you'd be foolish not to hire him. :) You can check out the paper below (Xudong's talk will be out soon too). Authors: Xudong Sun, Wenjie Ma, Jiawei Tyler Gu, Zicheng Ma, Tej Chajed, Jon Howell, Andrea Lattuada, Oded Padon, Lalith Suresh, Adriana Szekeres, Tianyin Xu

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An insightful talk about platform engineering and the challenges of building and delivering value!

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Don't miss out! Join us for a free workshop on memory allocation, object lifecycle, and garbage collection strategies within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Register now for the webinar on Oct 4th > #developers #Java #JVM

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Misconfigured Resource Requests and Limits can wreak havoc on your Kubernetes cluster. 👉https://hubs.la/Q02PsLLS0 Your applications and your wallet will thank you! #kubernetes #sre #devops

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When milliseconds count in trading, every upgrade matters. ⏱️ Alpaca’s OMS now processes orders 100x faster with Redpanda, ensuring rapid execution during heavy #trading sessions. Learn how we optimized #performance and reduced #latency to under 1.5ms. Check out the full story below 🚀

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⭐️ Thrilled to announce the launch of the Gravitee Kafka Gateway! ⭐️ The new Gravitee Kafka Gateway is designed to help organizations maximize the power of Kafka while addressing key challenges in data streaming. Acting as a proxy in front of your Kafka broker infrastructure, the Kafka Gateway integrates effortlessly with platforms like Confluent, Aiven, Redpanda, AWS MSK, and Apache Kafka. Imagine an API Gateway, but for Kafka: 1️⃣ Managing Costs: Reduce costs with virtual clusters, cloud storage offloading, and quotas. 2️⃣ Customer and Developer Experience: Provide a Developer Portal, personalized virtual topics, and safely expose Kafka to teams, partners and customers 3️⃣ Security and Access Control: Bridge authentication (e.g PLAIN to JWT), apply runtime policies, and offer secure web protocol endpoints. 4️⃣ Governance and Operational Control: Enforce naming conventions, validate topic standards, and analyze performance. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dbee8ivf

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On a new episode of What the Dev?, we spoke with Ram Iyengar, chief evangelist for the Cloud Foundry Foundation, about the role of buildpacks in software development today. Listen in to hear our conversation about: ▪ The importance of the buildpacks community  ▪ Korifi, Cloud Foundry's platform for creating and deploying applications on Kubernetes ▪ Where Cloud Foundry fits in a Kubernetes world ▪ The importance of giving developers better tooling 

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