IBM Distinguished Engineer focusing on SRE and Cloud Service Management & Operations, Karateka, husband, proud father of three (and yes, tweets are my own).

Joined June 2008
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Announcing the Cloud Adoption Playbook ingoaverdunk.wordpress.com/2…
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Nice to see SRE Meetup Munich #SREmuc mentioned on the page. Meetups are a great opportunity to engage with peers and discuss shared interests, exchange ideas, and build connections in a relaxed, informal setting. Join us in September meetup.com/sremuc/
We invite the #SRE community to join us at local events and meetups! Let's share knowledge and meet folks from SRE and related fields. google.smh.re/4IKn
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30-sec SRE on Imposter Syndrome
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Impostor syndrome is a psychological occurrence in which people doubt their skills, talents, or accomplishments and have a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as frauds.
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Despite external evidence of their competence, those experiencing this phenomenon do not believe they deserve their success or luck.
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@ingoa@mastodontech.de retweeted
17 Apr 2024
The First AI-Generated Video That Looks Super Real Microsoft Research announced VASA-1. It takes a single portrait photo and speech audio and produces a hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements generated in real-time. This is amazing, given that the AI-generated video looks very real! Of course, these examples will likely be cherry-picked, but this is still amazing. My favorite use-case for this tech is to revive old actors like Cary Grant in new movies with this tech :)
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11 Apr 2024
Been waiting for this to publish: @OpenTofuOrg responds to HashiCorp's cease-and-desist letter. opentofu.org/blog/our-respon… This answers my concerns, and I appreciate how thoughtful, fair, and *kind* it is. I was hasty in my judgment, and am grateful for their generous reply.
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30-sec SRE on Technical Debt
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A key concept of SRE is to give people time to work on the technical debt - to engineer problems away. But developers also need to have some skin in the game: good practice is to allocate 10%-15% of your sprint capacity to addressing technical debt.
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When I work with enterprises on modernizing their operations functions, I typically encounter an ever-increasing amount of technical debt. Unless you make a deliberate effort to identify and manage technical debt, you will never be able to catch up.
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30-sec SRE on SLI / SLO / SLA
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30-sec SRE on Error Budget
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Navigating the dynamic landscape of SRE can be daunting, particularly for newcomers to the field. Recognizing this challenge, I’ve taken the initiative to distill key SRE concepts into easily digestible 1-pagers — the “30-seconds SRE” resource.
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Whether you’re delving into SRE for the first time or seeking to deepen your understanding, these 30-second SRE guides are designed to streamline your learning journey and enhance your proficiency in this ever-evolving discipline.
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I intend to post an article each week. As a starter, I am posting two articles, one on SLI / SLO / SLA and another on Error Budget. I hope you enjoy the read and looking forward to your comments.
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Next up: Stephane Di Cesare from DKB / @upbound_io presenting GitOps with Crossplane. #sremuc.
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Kordian @kordianbruck kicking off todays SRE Meetup. Exciting Agenda with best practices for Post Mortem, GitOps with Crossplane and more. #sremuc
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Join us for our next #SRE Meetup at Google in Munich. Once again, we are coming together for an evening full of interesting talks, topics, people and delicious food. More Information about this event can be found here: meetup.com/sremuc/events/295… #SREMUC #Google
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