We are thrilled to announce our #acquisition of @sectionio, a trailblazer in edge-native computing. Our shared vision led us to create CloudFlow, an #AI platform that simplifies #Kubernetes operations. Read the announcement here: ow.ly/Aqf350PYzQV

I don’t usually like to talk about my past and I hesitated three times before writing this tweet but I’m sharing this story because it probably saved a couple of guys from committing suicide and it may inspire a lot of you. Two days ago, I met a group of young men at a bar. I sat with them for almost three hours and we had so many deep conversations about life, traveling, etc After two hours of basically bonding with each other, two guys talked to each other in their “local” language and then told me “Feel free not to answer, but have you ever continuously thought of committing suicide because life has no meaning?” They said it desperately and I could sense that they had even made up their minds about doing it. So I shared my life's story with them, hoping to inspire them and sway their decision. I’m from Syria and I lived most of my life under the civil war. I got lucky and escaped death over ten times. I was literally 1-3 seconds or 1 meter away from getting killed so many times. I was even captured twice by an army where I was forced into labor, to build a wall for them (as a kid). I basically lived under the worst conditions anyone would ever imagine. No electricity, water, or internet, high inflation, risk of getting killed/kidnapped at any point in time, etc My dream was and always will be to become a pilot but unfortunately, it costs so much money and I knew since I was a kid I wouldn’t be able to afford it. When I was 13/14 years old, I got so depressed and didn’t find meaning in my life. I mean just imagine being trapped at your house with no basic necessities or purpose. I wasn’t even able to go out and play with other kids because it was dangerous everywhere. For so many semesters I was not even able to go to school because tanks were under my house. On top of everything, I tragically lost many family members and most of my friends either to the war or when they escaped the country. It was at that time when I saw how everyone around me was SO depressed, when the suicide rate hit the highest ever in my city. I decided to change my life. I remember how we had electricity for 2-3 hours a day and my laptop’s battery barely stayed for 2 hours a day. After doing some research, I found out that programming is a perfect fit for me because I can work remotely. I started self-teaching myself during the 4 hours a day of having electricity with an internet speed of 100KB/s (yes 10% of a single MB), waiting the entire day literally on a candle for the electricity to come back so I can study. In 6 months, I got all the basic concepts and I started making around $100 a month as a freelancer as a kid. And this is higher than the average salary in Syria for engineers. But here is another obstacle, EVERYTHING is banned in Syria. You can't open a PayPal account, have a bank account, or even access private @github repos to name a few. Imagine as a developer I was asking my employers to upload their repos to Google Drive so I can access them. Then I found someone who was literally charging me a 60% fee to get me my money in cash from a friend’s PayPal in another country where I was paying 20% taxes. I saved up some money and I bought a better laptop then I decided to dive into cybersecurity and AI. But at that time we didn’t have any good free resources and I can’t afford to pay for courses. So I got a full grant from @coursera. I took every single course by the University of Michigan and others and got a 95% grade in each of them. I will always be grateful to you sir @drchuck. Things started to get better and I started making $500 from freelancing. I was on my laptop 16 hours a day, working, learning, or exploring new opportunities. I didn't even have a Fiverr account. All my clients came through word of mouth from previous ones. I dedicated myself to providing the best work, creating top-notch reports, and paying attention to details. Here I was participating in and winning so many global hackathons and someone advised me to start doing tech writing. In a few weeks, I joined @sectionio as a freelancer, and in less than 6 months, all my content ranked on the first page of Google search. I got promoted twice where I was a Tech Content Moderator co-managing the entire program they had at some point. I’m pretty sure I was younger than every single one of them. All of that while still losing 60% fee and paying taxes to a country I don’t even live in. Then, I discovered that crypto is not only ETH and BTC because of @dabit3. I started contributing to multiple protocols and started getting multiple offers from them. I decided to focus on @graphprotocol and I signed my first contract with the Foundation to focus on building a dev community and tech writing. I learned from the best people I ever met like @kyleArojas and @schmidsi. In less than two years, I built a new career and shifted to web3 full-time, and I left Syria. This is less than 10% of the story but if I share all the details, it is going to be an article. So many things happened in the last 3 years, I achieved things I never thought I would do a few years ago, and I'm now the CEO of @weave_db where I'm grateful to work with an amazing team and making a real difference. It is worth mentioning that I'm here because of all the AMAZING people that I met in web3 that supported me continuously. I'm so grateful that I met @pdiomede @data_nexus, and @dabit3 among so many others, and to be a part of amazing communities like @developer_dao. The point I’m trying to make here is that I don’t think anyone ever lived under the conditions I did. Everyone around me was depressed. My family lost everything in the war. ALL the companies I applied to at some point rejected me because they can't hire a Syrian and that's why I focused on freelancing for a long time. I got accepted into some of the top internships in the world but they withdrew the offers because of my nationality. Despite encountering numerous obstacles with each achievement, I faced them head-on and I'm proud of where I'm at now. Those guys I talked to are Europeans, they are living under the best conditions, they have money, and they are young. They have all the resources required to succeed. Sharing my story with them changed their look completely about life and gave them hope that everything is possible if you put your mind to it. And I hope it gives you hope too. I hesitated for an entire day before hitting the "Tweet" button below, but if my story saved two lives, I hope it can inspire many more to achieve their dreams.

SectionGPT, crimson-glade-1527.section.a…, update: - "smarter" by a factor - more on brand - won't hesitate to use it when I need to scour our docs @sectionio is overhauling the docs with all the amazing stuff we have released recently! Take it for a test drive in the meanwhile 🤖

Great 5:30 am surprise, got access to the gpt-4 API. SectionGPT updated to use the new model. Next step: Update the embeddings to get higher-quality results. Humming along on @sectionio

A quick weekend hack, SectionGPT: crimson-glade-1527.section.a…. Built on @sectionio docs and deployed on console.section.io. Sometimes it hallucinates but really impressed with a few hours of work. Going to do a second pass soon as we are in midst of overhauling our docs. Quick UI prototyped using Gradio.

New @sectionio platform updates simplify Mastodon deployment at scale #CDN #edgecloud #Mastodon #persistentstorage #Section #edge #edgecomputing edgeir.com/new-section-io-pl…

📖 Weekend read Distributed @GraphQL with @HasuraHQ and Supabase: section.io/docs/tutorials/di… By @sectionio.

Luckily for me what I want do if I wasn’t getting paid and what I do @sectionio overlap! So anything I do outside of work and things I do at work feed into each other! Very grateful!

@sectionio extremely flexible with a very low bar to get started, a very high ceiling with ability to control multiple global clusters with standard open source tooling! Check it out!

Cool stuff! Thanks for letting me know.

Finally got around to trying out Minikube on my M1 Max to play with some of our infra at @sectionio Was painless except x86 docker images taking some time to build (emulation FTW). Still better than my top-of-the-line Intel Macbook Pro being throttled to 1 GHz (sad noises)

At @sectionio we are using cypress.io to test console.section.io #nextjs It is extremely powerful and a joy to use. Keen to try out the experimental (I bet due to the locked-down browser APIs) webkit support. What tools are you using to test your frontend?

Creating a Machine Learning App using FastAPI and Deploying it Using Kubernetes section.io/engineering-educa… Credit: @sectionio #MachineLearning #fastapi #python #Kubernetes #DataScience

Hot off the press! Private image registry support is now live on @sectionio . You have been able to do this using kubectl, but now we take the hassle of creating YAMLs away! Making distributing containers easy, 1 container at a time 🚀 Check it out at console.section.io

And just like that my app is deployed in US, Hong Kong, Brisbane. Since it is a static website it benefits from being closer to the user. @sectionio takes away the complexity of distributing your containers. Doesn't matter if you want it in one location or 20!

Really proud of what we have built @sectionio over the past few months. An unparalleled distributed computing platform that you can take for a joy ride with industry-standard tooling. Low Bar, High Ceiling is the ethos of our platform. #docker #Kubernetes. Some things I love🧵

Looking forward to a virtual version of this talk which was one of the most popular startup talks at the YYZ #AWSSummit! Expect a special demo! I’ll be using our #DeveloperControlPlane to deploy on #AWS #EKS & the @LumenTechco #edge using @Sectionio

Congrats chief

i got my official Archer-styled profile pic so i fit in with the rest of the @sectionio gang. Tickled.

ICYMI @sectionio engineer @pavelnikolov gave an incredible talk at the recent #KubeConEU #CloudNativeCon in Valencia. You can watch the recording here hubs.ly/Q01d3Ftd0