A brilliant start to Platform Engineering Day at #Kubecon with @hazelweakly.me speaking about hiring for platform engineering. Very insightful and also funny. And sparkles… ✨✨

Great podcast from Sunil Mallya on SE Radio about Small Language Models. Lots of insights on fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, RAG vs. SLM, and what this all means for enterprise AI. 🎧 se-radio.net/2025/03/se-r... 1/7

happy 11 year anniversary to the first 1.0 release of Spring Boot ! It was released on the 1st of April 2014 spring.io/blog/2014/04...

My colleague Ben Wilkes published a pragmatic post about agentic engineering and the area of ChOP. I like the vocabulary of "agentic engineering" to describe how we should be using AI to write professional software today. www.equalexperts.com/blog/data-ai...

I continue to be humbled to lead the speaker webinar for QCon software conferences. avgSpeakerAttendance==30 highSpeakerWatermark==38 There are so few conferences I'm aware of that truly practice "We Care" like QCon. Things like this webinar are great! Hope to see you this year! #QConLondon

As always, an outstanding annual review of the dbms space... Good stuff on license blowback and Databricks v Snowflake.

Returning to Enabling Microservice Success @sarahjwells.bsky.social. On the right size for a microservice: "When you're designing your microservices and finding your boundaries one thing you should be guided by is your transaction boundaries." Seems intuitive, but it's not. 🧵(1/6)

@mipsytipsy.bsky.social rarely disappoints. Her unfiltered reflections on "Founder Mode and the Art of Hiring” are awesome. It makes you reflect on the kind of leader you aspire to be (and why). charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...

One of my major takeaways #KubeConNA '24: Dagger continues to hit it's stride. The promise was always there (how could it not with @shykes.bsky.social as CEO), but it's only 🚀. @salaboy.com and Marcos Lilljedahl did a great job showing Dagger & DAPR together in SLC www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSen...

Platform Engineering is a product-focused approach to enabling stream aligned teams to deliver with substantial autonomy. Effective Platform Engineering is a great additional the conversation! This was a fun chat with some wonderful platform engineers!

Last week's proud Tech Principal moment! Jason Roberts & Sonia Mathew discussing transforming a 35 year old mainframe into a near real-time system surfaced with a domain-oriented GraphQL! qconsf.com/presentation...

Just wrapped up a great Platform Engineering conversation for #GotoBookClub. Ajay Chankramath, Bryan Oliver, Sean Alvarez, & Nick Cheneweth's new book is loaded with real-world experience! Check out the book and watch for the interview online! www.manning.com/books/effect... @gotocon.com

"Hello World". I've been heads down in client work for a while, so just now surfacing on #bluesky #hopeful #tech