David Williams

CTO + Transformation Avocado 🥑; Managing Principal @ AHEAD; Enthusiast of things in the ☁️, at the edge, containerized, battery-powered, & that go bang!

[memenetes @memenetes]

Companies: "why can't we find Kubernetes experts to hire?"

Their interview process:

[glyph @glyph]

open source dependency feelings

[Jez Humble @jezhumble]

Everyone sensible in IT has been saying for years that if you buy COTS (commercial off-the-shelf software packages) you shouldn’t customize it - it’s wildly expensive and you end up with something hard to maintain and almost impossible to upgrade.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

NASA has selected Starship to land the first astronauts on the lunar surface since the Apollo program! We are humbled to help @NASAArtemis usher in a new era of human space exploration → https://t.co/Qcuop33Ryz

[Adriana Porter Felt @__apf__]

My 9 book picks for engineering leaders 👇

[David Williams @DavWilliams]

If you’re wondering what @LloydAustin’s qualifications are, just follow along as he lists his firsts. #NotMyFirstTimeBeingTheFirst

[Archive: Lloyd J. Austin III @SecDefAustin]

I am enormously grateful for the service and the sacrifices of those who broke barriers before me—and although I may be the first African American Secretary of Defense, it’s my hope that I won’t be the last.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

11 years ago today I pushed the first commit for Vagrant. I didn’t know what a virtual machine was, I barely knew Ruby, I had never done any ops, I was still a 20 year old university student. Follow your dreams, it isn’t easy, but it can be done. https://t.co/Z8cZa6J1nY

[David Williams @DavWilliams]

Less educated != Less capable

I appreciate the perspective of this article and the effect that social class has on jobs, leadership, and promotions.

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Workers with lower social-class origins tend to be less educated, a factor that explains about 60% of the disadvantage they experience in the workplace. But that disparity in education levels has nothing to do with intelligence and more to do with context. https://t.co/GbiZkyO7Mh

[David Williams @DavWilliams]

@mstine They’re just being eventually consistent. 😉

[David Williams @DavWilliams]

@bryanl Saw what you did there...glossed over the fact that you have AirPod Max in that AV setup. How do you like them?

[David Williams @DavWilliams]

@cdelashm Hey Chris...I remember those days, whiteboarding away. It was enough to scare my son away from Infrastructure and become a software engineer ever since. Then I showed him the joys of DevOps, CI/CD, and containerization and he was hooked! From 2016...

[David Williams @DavWilliams]

@derekcollison @jan_plutzer @_synadia_ @nats_io The dynamic duo back together! Congrats @jan_plutzer and the @_synadia_ team!

[Carlos E. Perez @IntuitMachine]

The state of machine learning practice:

[David Williams @DavWilliams]

This is absolutely amazing! Looking forward to much more from @SpaceX

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Soon

[David Williams @DavWilliams]

Shout out to ⁦@kelseyhightower⁩ from those of us in the #ATL and everywhere who are dealing with the same diversity struggles yet forging ahead in this great industry. Thx for setting a great example for many! #DEI https://t.co/hQ2eQEbS0D

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I love this @AWS reaction to using Waypoint to deploy to Docker, EKS, and ECS with the same command and minimal config changes. “That’s pretty awesome.” https://t.co/IaxrZk4ZGJ

[David Williams @DavWilliams]

@BnJ25 @derekcollison @Dell @ubuntu @system76 Agreed. I’d go with @system76 h/w and Pop!_OS. Unfortunately the Lemur Pro may not be available for some time. Or just go with a MBP 13” 💻, or are you avoiding 🧑‍💻?

[David Williams @DavWilliams]

This is an old video, but never ceases to amaze me! @redbull #ADoorInTheSky https://t.co/qwVTfdHTir

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

My local shops in Thailand. In 2 seconds scans my temperature and to see if wearing mask. Doors don’t open if not. 3 cases in 100+ days here. Removes awkward mask arguments for staff as well.