Alex Jones
Principal Engineer @ AWS
London, United Kingdom
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Alex works as both a contributor and end-user of cloud-native technology. He spends his work-time translating tooling, practices and behaviours into generators of strategic value and positive cultural change.
His passion is to create positive engineering cultures that enable inclusivity and diversity as a core attribute rather than a vague goal. Enabling engineers to build more reliable services through shared accountability, observability and automation of toil.
He has worked at companies such as JPMorgan, American Express, Microsoft, British Sky Broadcasting.
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Beyond the Clouds: Charting the course for AI in the CloudNative world
With Kubernetes being the de facto choice of orchestration platform for AI, have you wondered how AI can benefit from CloudNative technologies? Join this discussion, to understand it beyond the horizon of CloudNative and AI integration.
This discussion, with maintainers of projects like k8sgpt and industry leaders of CloudNative for AI space, will address
- How CloudNative principles like OCI registries and distributed architecture can benefit AI
- How telemetry and observability can be leveraged to profile an AI app
- The importance and need for collaboration between MLops practitioners and cloud-native technologists
- How Software Supply Chain best practices can be incorporated in AI model pipelines
- How GPU/CPU resources can be better scheduled to render higher AI performance
- How GPU partition and sharing can help in increased resource utilization rate and reduced AI cost
The audience will know how to contribute to the effort of CloudNative and AI benefiting from each other!
Rust Operators For Kubernetes
This is a presentation that outlines the growing popularity of Rust within the Cloud-native ecosystem, hurdles it still has for wider adoption and opportunities for improvements to platform reliability where it is employed.
K8sGPT: Balancing AI's Productivity Boost with Ethical Considerations in Cloud-Native
AI has become influential in shaping mainstream consciousness through conversation, image generation, and content creation. As its reach is expanded to every corner of society and technology, it is poised to influence the cloud-native landscape in significant ways.
But what will this mean for the future of cloud-native? How can we leverage AI technologies like inference APIs, unsupervised learning, and synthesizing human behaviours to improve observability and issue triage in the cloud-native space?
In this talk, we will dive into K8sGPT, a CNCF sandbox candidate project that codifies DevOps knowledge using remote and local AI. We'll explore how K8sGPT can enhance observability and issue triage in cloud-native environments, as well as the potential of task-specific models and AI-driven infrastructure to lower barriers to entry for newcomers to cloud-native.
Throughout there will be continued reflection on how we can utilise this powerful new tooling safely and for everyone.
Introduction to OpenFeature
OpenFeature is an open standard for feature flag management, created to support a robust feature flag ecosystem using cloud native technologies. OpenFeature provides a unified API and SDK, and a developer-first, cloud-native implementation, with extensibility for open source and commercial offerings.
Crowdsourcing a Kubernetes distribution: What we learnt with MicroK8s
MicroK8s went from a part-time project to an Open-source success story available on every Ubuntu server in the world.
However, behind its meteoric rise in usage, we struggled to balance the needs of end-users, the challenges of competition and
In this talk we’ll talk about how it took us time to realise the power of community, to build a way to enable them to help guide our roadmap and to truly recognise the power of crowdsourcing engineering through open source.
SLO's don't matter: A nihilist's guide to reliability
Too many new SRE's are falling into the trap of chasing acronyms without ever asking the question of why.
Why should we care about an objective, an indicator, a metric?
What business or customer value does it bring?
In this talk we poke fun at some of the mind-boggling situations SRE find themselves in the self-inflicted toil that linking observability to business indicators has become.
By shining a tongue-in-cheek light on the hypocrisy of modern SRE practices and expectations; we ask the question "Do SRE really identify with what they are doing or is it all going through the motions? How can we get our Mojo back and re-frame the core motivation and customer empathy that spawned the discipline?"
CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2024 Sessionize Event
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 Sessionize Event
PlatformCon 2023 Sessionize Event
KubeHuddle Sessionize Event
WTF is SRE? A Virtual Conference by SREs for SREs 2022 Sessionize Event
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