
CNCF Ambassador | @kcdtoronto | AI Tinkerers Montreal and CNCF meetup Organizer | Modern App and AI Specialist | Developer Advocate | Podcaster
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Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
🍁⎈ Back from summer break! @CloudNativeFdn events are kicking off across Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa & Quebec City⎈
Venues are set—we're looking for local Platform, SRE & DevOps speakers (demos, lightning talks, deep dives) + RSVPs! #CNCF
🔗 CFP & RSVP: linktr.ee/cloud.native.canad…
Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
A Claude user says Anthropic's pay-as-you-go "extra usage" billing switched itself back on twice after they disabled it, and reset their $100 monthly cap to $20,000.
A screenshot of their billing page shows nine charges on 9–10 August adding up to exactly €570.97, roughly $690 after FX and card fees.
We've been reading a lot of stories like this lately.
🤩🇨🇦 TODAY IS THE FIRST EVER KCD TORONTO! 🇨🇦🤩
The @kubernetesio community has officially landed in 🇨🇦
Get ready for a day packed with:
🎤 Expert-led talks
🤝 Networking with the best in CNCF
🍁 Local community vibes
Use #KCDToronto to share your highlights! Let’s go! 🚀✨
🤩🇨🇦 TODAY IS THE FIRST EVER KCD TORONTO! 🇨🇦🤩
The @kubernetesio community has officially landed in 🇨🇦
Get ready for a day packed with:
🎤 Expert-led talks
🤝 Networking with the best in CNCF
🍁 Local community vibes
Use #KCDToronto to share your highlights! Let’s go! 🚀✨
Join us at kcdtoronto.ca May 13th in Toronto!
I’m sincerely thankful to all who’ve put in so much of their precious time and effort in making sure KCD Toronto will be a successful Cloud Native and AI conference.
Of course I’ll be running around on the day of and won’t get to catch every talk but, I’m simply amazed by ALL the different topics we’ll see from extremely thoughtful speakers:
- Human Intelligence
- AI Metrics
- Secure AI Access
- IDPs and Observability
- Identity-aware Access Control
- In-place Pod Resizing
- K8s Operators for Agents/MCP
- Yoke
- Kagent
- Agentic Scalability
- Karpenter
- KServe and LLMInferenceService
- Investigating compromised K8s workloads
- SIG-Multicluster APIs
- An Incident Response CTF
- Running nassive scale K8s
- Efficiency and Platform Capabilities
- OTel Adoption
- A2A Communication
- Autonomous Agent orchestration
- Scaling Multicluster ML
- GPU-Scanner
- FinOps for K8s
- A Kubernetes X-Ray with Tetragon
- Intelligent Ticket Pipelines on K8s
- Golden Images
If you haven’t picked up your ticket for KCD Toronto, you have < 2 weeks; we’re almost at capacity and will have a very limited amount on-site.
Come hang out and meet the awesome Cloud Native Community here in Toronto 🍁😊
See you on May 13th! 😎
kcdtoronto.ca
Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
I’m sincerely thankful to all who’ve put in so much of their precious time and effort in making sure KCD Toronto will be a successful Cloud Native and AI conference.
Of course I’ll be running around on the day of and won’t get to catch every talk but, I’m simply amazed by ALL the different topics we’ll see from extremely thoughtful speakers:
- Human Intelligence
- AI Metrics
- Secure AI Access
- IDPs and Observability
- Identity-aware Access Control
- In-place Pod Resizing
- K8s Operators for Agents/MCP
- Yoke
- Kagent
- Agentic Scalability
- Karpenter
- KServe and LLMInferenceService
- Investigating compromised K8s workloads
- SIG-Multicluster APIs
- An Incident Response CTF
- Running nassive scale K8s
- Efficiency and Platform Capabilities
- OTel Adoption
- A2A Communication
- Autonomous Agent orchestration
- Scaling Multicluster ML
- GPU-Scanner
- FinOps for K8s
- A Kubernetes X-Ray with Tetragon
- Intelligent Ticket Pipelines on K8s
- Golden Images
If you haven’t picked up your ticket for KCD Toronto, you have < 2 weeks; we’re almost at capacity and will have a very limited amount on-site.
Come hang out and meet the awesome Cloud Native Community here in Toronto 🍁😊
See you on May 13th! 😎
kcdtoronto.ca
Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
Yea that was a fun one.
Thank you for celebrating the glory of entrepreneurship, David.
My conversation with Tobi Lütke (@tobi), co-founder and CEO of Shopify.
0:00 Companies as Social Technology
5:27 The Value of Reading Books: Cheat Codes for Life
7:28 Post-IPO Crisis: Cosplaying as a CEO
7:54 Competition vs Rivalry: The Power of Healthy Competition
16:02 COVID as a Turning Point: Rebuilding the Executive Team
18:21 Hiring Founders: Building a Team of High-Agency People
26:49 Shopify OS: Engineering the Company from First Principles
36:48 Compensation Innovation: Giving Employees Full Agency
40:41 The Psychology of Identity and Affirmations
48:43 Differentiation Over Perfection: Making It Your Own
50:31 Context Podcast: Documenting Decision-Making
1:26:36 The IPO Decision: Going Against Silicon Valley Orthodoxy
1:35:08 Building a Company Worth Working For
1:41:50 Hiring for Spikiness: Finding Non-Conformists
1:48:28 Office Design Philosophy: Creating Space for Excellence
1:58:54 Video Games as Business Training: StarCraft Lessons
2:07:06 AI Revolution: 2026 and Beyond
2:11:44 Focus on Craft: The Unquantifiable Elements of Excellence
2:21:08 Survivorship Bias: The Importance of Entrepreneurial Exposure
2:23:22 Closing
Includes paid partnerships.
It was great fun December cncf meetup in Toronto! Thank you to #Intuit and @SWDevAngel for hosting us!
Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
Yes, you absolutely missed last nights CNCF Toronto meetup 😉
Especially the last one of the year🤯❄️☃️🎄
Really excited for what we have lined up for 2026 😊
Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
"Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers now receive priority access [to @antigravity], featuring our highest, most generous rate limits with quotas that refresh every five hours." blog.google/feed/new-antigra… < we've also updated free users to a weekly based rate limit which I like
Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
> created the Linux kernel at 21
> built Git because no existing tool was good enough
> accidentally became the backbone of servers, Android, cloud, supercomputers
> never chased fame, money, titles or hype
> stayed private, consistent, and brutally honest for decades
> still reviews code, still improves Linux, still avoids drama
Is Linus Torvalds the most underappreciated legend of the tech industry?
Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
I just spent 12 hours stress-testing Gemini Pro 3.0.
The results were startling.
The barrier between "technical" and "non-technical" is gone.
I didn't write code. I didn't hire a dev. I didn't open n8n.
I just used plain English.
So let's look at what happened...
The Clean Up:
I pasted a description of a broken lead-routing process.
Gemini spotted the bottleneck.
It redesigned the logic flow.
It wrote the SOPs for my team.
The Analysis:
I uploaded raw, messy sales transcripts.
I asked for patterns.
It found a pricing objection I had missed for months.
That one insight is worth five figures.
The Build:
I requested a client portal architecture.
It gave me the database schema.
It mapped the user journey.
It defined the error handling.
Most people use this tech to write emails.
That is a waste of horsepower.
It’s not a chatbot, it’s a 24/7 operator.
But it only works if you know how to speak to it.
I documented everything I did in those 12 hours.
I call it the Gemini Prompting Playbook.
Inside:
- 40+ Operator-grade prompts
- My exact SOP frameworks
- Templates to turn data into decisions
I’m giving it away for free.
Reply "GEMINI" below.
I’ll DM you the link.
(Must be following so I can message you)
Say Kube, say Con. Hello from Atlanta Kubecon. Great to see the community and ambassador getting together again 🤗
Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
Here is Gemini CLI’s October 27th weekly update for v0.12.0
- 🎉 New Partner Extensions:
- 🤗 Hugging Face extension: Access the Hugging Face hub.
gemini extensions install github.com/huggingface/hf-mc…
- Monday.com extension: Analyze your sprints, update your task boards, etc.
gemini extensions install github.com/mondaycom/mcp
- Data Commons extension: Query public datasets or ground responses on data from Data Commons.
gemini extensions install github.com/gemini-cli-extens…
- Model Selection: Choose the Gemini model for your session with /model. (abhipatel12)
- Model Routing: Gemini CLI will now intelligently pick the best model for the task. Simple queries will be sent to Flash while complex analytical or creative tasks will still use the power of Pro. This ensures your quota will last for a longer period of time. You can always opt-out of this via /model. (abhipatel12)
- Discussion: github.com/google-gemini/gem…
- Codebase Investigator Subagent: We now have a new built-in subagent that will explore your workspace and resolve relevant information to improve overall performance. (abhipatel12 and silviojr)
- Enable, disable, or limit turns in /settings, plus advanced configs in settings.json (silviojr)
- Explore Extension: Users can now open the extensions page in their default browser directly from the CLI using the /extensions explore command. (JayadityaGit)
- Configurable Compression: Users can modify the compression threshold in /settings. The default has been made more proactive (scidomino).
- API Key Authentication: Users can now securely enter and store their Gemini API key via a new dialog, eliminating the need for environment variables and repeated entry. (galz10)
- Sequential Approval: Users can now approve multiple tool calls sequentially during execution. (joshualitt)
github.com/google-gemini/gem…
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Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
google’s open source & research output basically built the modern ai + web stack:
- chromium → most browsers
- android → 3b+ phones
- tensorflow, jax, tpu papers → shaped ml infrastructure
- transformer paper → changed the world
- mapreduce, borg, spanner, protobufs, kubernetes → cloud & infra as we know it
meanwhile openai, despite the open in the name, is philosophically closed.
the founders of google have left so much legacy for good in the world. that has to be lauded. can’t imagine two other people who have had such an enormous impact on modern life.
🎉Announcing the amazing lineup for #cTENcf Birthday Bash Montreal! 🎉 🎂 Come celebrate with the community! Don’t miss DJ Prune and House of Kube after the talks. This is officially the hottest party in cloud native! 🎂community.cncf.io/events/det…
Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
📢Call for Speakers is open for CNCF Montreal sessionize.com/cncf-montreal 📢
🎂Join us for cTENcf Birthday Party: Celebrating Cloud Native's Journey🎂
🗓️ Sept 23d, 5:30 PM EDT
🏰 Huge thanks to our exclusive host, @LightspeedHQ, and our sponsors: @ArctiqTeam, @chainguard_dev, @sysdig
🎟️RSVP here: community.cncf.io/events/det…
Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
Seeing all the articles and blog posts about the new video overviews launch but don’t have the time to read them all?
We got you. 🫡🫡🫡
Archy 🇨🇦 retweeted
🚨 FINAL CALL for the in-person #Montreal @CloudNativeFd meetup at @Lightspeed!
Join us to see how @Beneva adopted Backstage.io AND learn to build 0-CVE images + implement Manifest-Driven Secure Execution (MDSE) for next-level cloud security! 🔐
🎙️Amazing lineup + great networking
📅 June 17 th
Huge thanks to @grafana, @sysdig, @ArctiqTeam, & @chainguard_dev!
RSVP here: community.cncf.io/events/det…
























