Damien Pacaud

Tech enthusiast, father of 3, experimental gardener, and CTO @ Indy. Love to speak on all things tech. Opinions are my own

[Sunny Tech @SunnyTech_MTP]

"Toujours en UUIDv4/v5 ? Il est encore temps de migrer pour scaler votre base relationnelle !" avec Brice Jaglin et Axel Czarniak. Voyons ensemble comment l’adoption des UUIDv7 permet à votre base PostgreSQL critique d'éviter le mur du scale vertical. #SunnyTech2026 #UUIDv7

[David Ondrej @DavidOndrej1]

if you're not running Gemma 4 E4B on locally on your airpods

you're falling behind

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

⚠️ WARNING - A Trivy-linked supply chain attack has escalated into a self-propagating npm worm now spreading across dozens of packages.

It steals npm tokens, republishes itself, and spreads through developer machines and CI. Uses an ICP canister to rotate payloads and resist takedowns.

🔗 How the worm spreads and updates payloads → https://t.co/xpWmy3txdS

[Victoriano Izquierdo @victorianoi]

In 20 years, vibe coders will look at the Linux kernel repo the way we look at the pyramids. In awe, unable to imagine how they managed to drag all those giant stones and pile them up in the middle of the desert.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

You know it’s bad when F and C coincide

[Jessie Frazelle @jessfraz]

listen some of us had "not invented here" (NIH) syndrome _before_ AI, but to everyone else... welcome!

[DHH @dhh]

Good example of GLM 4.7 just one-shotting a fix for Rails PR to wrap it up while I was doing something else. All I fed it was the failing test from CI. Nothing groundbreaking, just time saved. https://t.co/E3ueHDW8AL

[Sandro Volpicella @sandro_vol]

Honeycomb published a blog post called "The End of Observability as We Know It."
I've been using observability tools for years now. Heck, I wrote a book about CloudWatch ⛅

And honestly? I like the take of this post.

Let's see a typical daily observability issue:
- You have 5 AWS accounts.
- Each account runs different services that interact with each other.

To be able to find issues you use tools that observability providers have built for you like:
📜 Logs
📊 Dashboards
🕸️ Traces

Every feature is there for you to help you find the problem FASTER.

This is what Austin states: SPEED MATTERS.
And I like that take. In the end, you want to get results fast. You don't care how you get the results.
This is where AI & LLMs come in.
They're just much faster at digging through tons of data.

Let's say you have a production issue like your checkout is slow.

As a developer, you don't care about which tool you use to find the issues.

You care about finding the solution.

With proper AI it could look like that:
> "My checkout is slow for some customers, why?"
…🤖
> "Account 42783330 has occasional spikes over 3s. Could you use caching? Or I saw two database calls that aren't necessarily needed at this part of the code."

Sounds good at a first glance.
But I want to actually see the root cause.

Maybe caching is just fixing the symptom.

But the actual root cause is something completely else.

I think AI shouldn't be 100% only text-based.

It should also show you the exact investigation path in the tools you already know how to use.

You need to use it in a combination. If it helps you get to the goals faster, that's great!

I've always loved Honeycomb's resources on observability 📚
Before writing my CloudWatch book, I read their "Observability Engineering" book. It's amazing.

Their blog is also a gold mine for understanding that observability is more than just dashboards and three pillars 😉

Thank you to Honeycomb for inviting me to explore their solutions and sponsoring this content.

🔗 Check out the blog post (includes real-world examples): https://t.co/Mi6qZpUgDp

[Damien Pacaud @damienpacaud]

@levelsio In my experience, having a European SIM with a data plan works best when visiting China.
I’ve used Orange with a french contract and Asia data plan with success in Hk, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Dongguan

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Seeing more posts like this (and I don’t mean to single out Andrea!)

After enthusiasm thanks to rapid progress —> a few months of increasing pain —> giving up

Turns out having a tool that generates code doesn’t remove the need to know how to program to build complex software…

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

AOL says it will discontinue dial-up internet on September 30

May this sound echo in eternity:

[antirez @antirez]

Blog post: Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update)

https://t.co/8Awoq2ICFY

[Olivier Poncet 🦝 @ponceto91]

La palme de la meilleure quote de talk à @SunnyTech_MTP est décernée à @k33g_org 🏆

« Laisser un serveur MCP ouvert sur internet c'est comme donner une boîte d'allumettes à un enfant »

[Sunny Tech @SunnyTech_MTP]

🔔 "Inbox Zero sur Sentry : mission impossible ?" avec Sébastien Couniot ! Découvrez comment chez Indy, ils ont repris le contrôle de leur alerting et les leçons apprises un an plus tard

#alerting #SunnyTech2025

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

6/ Too often, we mistake professionalism for detachment, or taught to separate the personal from the strategic.

I’m not arguing to prioritize friendship over executing on your startup or vision. Instead, you should see friendship as a key part of the strategic plan.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I am surprised at the speed of which intelligent people start to outsource thinking and fact checking to tools like Grok and other LLMs

Just think a few steps ahead of what this will mean at a societal level assuming it continues

A brave new world to come?

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

DealRoom just dropped their 2025 Global Tech Ecosystem Index.

I analyzed the data and found some fascinating shifts in Europe:

London falls.
Paris leads.
Eastern Europe surges.

Here's the tech hubs that are *actually* winning in Europe now 🧵:

[Damien Pacaud @damienpacaud]

RT @joehas: Highly recommended listen. One of the very best episodes.

Silicon Valley Types always talk their book, Europeans (particularl…

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

🚨 Critical Flaws in LDAP Exploited!

A new proof-of-concept exploit, LDAPNightmare, crashes unpatched Windows Servers with one crafted request.

Even worse? RCE attacks are possible with minor tweaks.

👉 Read more: https://t.co/Fk1b7vg4h0