Life update
My days consist of enjoying the Danish summer, interviews in between, while preparing my talk for EuroPython ‘25 - Prague. I’m also looking forward to spending a week in Prague 🇨🇿☀️🍻
Mind dump
This is an attempt at a dump of the things I’m currently interested in, work-related. In the future, I’d like to have something like a dedicated page, which would help me explain things to others, and why not, to understand myself.
Books
- I’m reading My Effin’ Life by Geddy Lee, one of my favorite bassists.
- It’s quite hard at first to read about the inhumane treatment his parents, Holocaust survivors, suffered.
Talks
I’ve already seen a similar talk by Kasper.
- Understanding the “Rails moment” of Kubernetes and Observability
- “We have a systems problem, not just metrics/tracing/etc.”
- Observability as the open framework of the future
- Open Data Standards Postgres, OTel, and Iceberg
Notes
- Currently, the community has decided on the foundation upon which everything is built ⇒ Kubernetes
- Example: All cloud providers sit on top of it
- Once inside K8s, we started using 3rd-party services
- Syncing: ArgoCD
- Provisioning: Crossplane
- Service Mesh
- Scaling: KNative
- Dapr
- Over time, blueprints or stacks began to emerge
- BACK: Backstage, Argo, Crossplane, Kyverno
- CNOE
- KusionStack
Raising the bar for everyone
IDP high level arch == Cloud providers high level arch but on top of kubernetes
- AI as a platform capability
Courses
- Thanks to the PlatformCon talk, I signed up for the Introduction to Platform Engineering course.
- I’ve been thinking about this mix of Backend and DevOps for a while now and where I want to position myself in the future.
- Platform Engineering has several things that interest me.
- DX - Working for other devs
- Observability - Being able to easily understand the systems we work with
- IaC - Automating infrastructure → Self-Service for developers