Alena Prokharchyk

Software Engineer @Apple | CNCF Governing Board | Previously @Rancher_Labs and CNCF TOC | All things infrastructure

[ocean 🌊 @oceannvibe]

When i say i want to live in peace thats i mean

[Alena Prokharchyk @Lemonjet]

And similar position is also open in London, UK

https://t.co/3BHdU3oUMx

[Alena Prokharchyk @Lemonjet]

The Darwin Server / Core OS team I work with at Apple is hiring in Cupertino, CA.

Looking for strong experience with UNIX/Linux systems and building OS infrastructure for cloud computing. Great team, interesting work.

DM me if interested.

https://t.co/1hOZJmWHi4

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Make yourself easy to root for. Be kind. Be reliable. Celebrate other people’s wins. Work hard without complaining. Carry good energy into rooms. You'll be shocked by how many doors open for you by making life better for others.

[Alena Prokharchyk @Lemonjet]

The Darwin Server / Core OS team I work with at Apple is hiring in Cupertino, CA.

Looking for strong experience with UNIX/Linux systems and building OS infrastructure for cloud computing. Great team, interesting work.

DM me if interested.

https://t.co/1hOZJmWHi4

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Abby🫧💕 @BigmummyAbby]

May is mental health awareness month.

So much people are struggling mentally, depressed and drained and trying their best not to take their lives.

Please check on your friends, check on your quiet coursemate and colleagues.

You matter and you are loved. You’re not alone.❤️

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

So thrilled to celebrate #Apple50 with @paulmccartney! His music has inspired us from the beginning, so this is a full circle moment to close out our celebrations. Thank you, Paul, for proving that when you think different, you have the power to change the world.

[Xiaoyin Qu @quxiaoyin]

I have kids. I work in AI every day. And honestly? I have no idea what their careers will look like in 15 years. But I know what will carry them through.

First, and this might sound unromantic: make money and save it for them. We can debate educational philosophy all day, but the world is changing so fast that financial security might be the most practical gift we can give. Buy some gold bars. Seriously.

Second, nurture their imagination. AI rewards people with initiative and wild ideas. The kid who daydreams, who asks weird questions, who wants to try ten things at once? That kid will thrive. AI can execute. AI can be disciplined. What AI can't do is dream up something nobody's thought of before.

Third, build resilience. There are no more iron rice bowls (guaranteed lifetime jobs). Any stable, predictable job is exactly the kind of job AI will learn to replace. Our kids will likely switch directions many times in their lives. Learn something new, get replaced, pivot, repeat. It's more like being a hunter than a farmer. Schools don't teach this. Schools teach you to follow a linear path: high school, college, grad school, stable job. That linear path is becoming the most dangerous one.

Last, invest in their ability to connect with other humans. Not networking. Not schmoozing. Real emotional connection. Building trust, offering support, making people feel seen. As AI handles more of the rational, analytical work, the human ability to genuinely relate to other humans becomes more rare and more valuable.

I don't have all the answers. But I know that imagination, resilience, and genuine human warmth aren't going out of style anytime soon.

#AI #Parenting #Education #FutureOfWork

[Chris Aniszczyk @cra]

For my old open source doc friends and twitterati, Troy Howard suffered a surprise heart attack and left in a tough situation, he's always been kind and helpful in all communities he's been involved in https://t.co/Mbyc0Nq6xM

[Cats with Aura 😺 @catwithaura]

"Where do you see yourself in 40 years?"

me:

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

I don’t need a vacation.

I need about three consecutive days
where nothing is wrong
and no one needs anything from me.

[𝓑ᥫ᭡ @quesadaaa_]

Some people ask why, at 30+, we suddenly have so many hobbies such as running, pilates, hiking, tennis, padel, golf, etc.

News flash: not everyone was born privileged. Some of us spent our teens & early 20s grinding just to survive. Now we finally have a bit of time and resources to chase the hobbies we love.

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

A big week ahead. It all starts Monday morning! #AppleLaunch

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

As part of our $600B commitment, Mac mini will be produced in the US for the first time later this year!

We're accelerating our progress even further— producing more AI servers and opening an all-new Apple Advanced Manufacturing Center for hands-on training.

[Alena Prokharchyk @Lemonjet]

@ibuildthecloud I know the feeling. Lately I’ve noticed that all my doctors are suddenly younger than me - similar kind of moment

[Alena Prokharchyk @Lemonjet]

Spring in Bay Area

[Alena Prokharchyk @Lemonjet]

I'm losing this game as an adult

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Good morning friends.

[Randall Kanna Franson @RandallKanna]

The most valuable skill I learned in tech wasn’t coding.

It was sticking with a problem until it got solved. Perseverance.

AI can’t build that for you.