cal newport @author-calnewport.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown · Author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, Slow Productivity · Writing about focus, technology & meaningful work.
eliza🌻 @elizas.website e-girl (engineering girl) • interested in the kind of software nobody writes anymore • making computers at @oxide.computer • love too cheap to meter • nulla crux, nulla corona
Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social Podcast editor (as long as quality and urgency aren’t important)
🌎👩🚀🔫🧑🚀
Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social Engineering Manager @clickhouse.com | Databases | Kubernetes | http://parallelthoughts.xyz | https://berlinsystems.xyz/ | https://cal.com/manishgill | AI Research @TomTom
Delhi raised, Berlin based.
Hillel is on Social Media Break @hillelwayne.com Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open and happy to meet up in Chicago. Currently writing *Logic for Programmers* (out July-ish)
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
joshua stein @jcs.org Hello, cyberpals. I make @pushover.net and old Macintosh stuff and sometimes OpenBSD stuff for you and me.
Projects here: @klud.ge | @deskto.ps
Oak Park, Illinois
Fediverse: @jcs@jcs.org
World Wide Web: jcs.org- J Frank Denis @jedisct1.bsky.social Zig, Cryptography and stuff.
Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book
she/her 🏳️🌈
Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/
Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social I just want to build distributed data systems, read books, and drink tea.
@tarik817.bsky.social @tarik817.bsky.social
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io Erstwhile SRE, database person, human.
https://matt.blwt.io
Justin @jaffray.bsky.social turning to the succor of modern computing machines, let us renounce all analytic tools
https://buttondown.com/jaffray justinjaffray.com
David Pizarro @peez.bsky.social Brother J. says “yuck”
Tamler Sommers @tamler.bsky.social it’s not about the bunnies
Very Bad Wizards @verybadwizards.bsky.social a podcast featuring @tamler and @peez
Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social
Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social “Who do we say the rules are for?” “Other people.” • VP of Product: Databases & Storage @cloudflare • https://github.com/elithrar • https://twitter.com/elithrar
Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com Connect with a rapidly-growing Local-First community. Join us for our third edition 12-14th of July 2026 in Berlin. www.localfirstconf.com
SIGMOD/PODS Conference @sigmodconf.bsky.social ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data.
@sigmod.bsky.social @sigmod.bsky.social
@vldb.bsky.social @vldb.bsky.social
Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com 0.1x programmer
localfirst.fm @localfirst.fm A podcast about local-first software development. Hosted by @schickling.dev.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) @cncf.io Making cloud native ubiquitous
Russ Cox @swtch.com
Duffie Cooley @mauilion.dev Field CTO Isovalent // Proud CNCF Ambassador // I am committed to seeing others succeed.
@mauilion everywhere else
Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social CTO of Microsoft Azure, author of novels Rogue Code, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, Windows Internals, Sysinternals tools. Opinions are my own.
tiffany jernigan 🐦🔥 @tiffanyfay.dev 👩💻🥑 @grafana.bsky.social
☸️ #cncf ambassador
💻 ex- vmware, amazon, intel, docker
🎓 electrical engineering georgia tech
💭 opinions:mine
📸 instagram.com/tiffanyfayj
🇺🇸 seattle, wa
🔗 linktr.ee/tiffanyfay | tiffanyfay.dev
David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io ceo exe.dev, tailscale co-founder, programmer
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev Knuck if you buck practitioner
Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social Professor at FEUP University of Porto and researcher at INESC TEC. Distributed Systems and Data. Co-creator of CRDTs. Founder eurotux.com. Still searching for unknown unknowns. (🦋 July 2023)
Web: https://cbaquero.github.io/web/
Tim Bray @tbray.org Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
Brian Grant @bgrant0607.bsky.social CTO/cofounder of ConfigHub. Original lead architect of Kubernetes and creator of its declarative configuration model.
Mike @mfridman.bsky.social technology, landmarks, left joins and Go vibes.
Protocol Buffers for the rest of us @buf.build
James Munnelly @munnerz.bsky.social Kubernetes @ Apple | cert-manager maintainer | previously @ Jetstack
Stefan Schimanski @sttts.social API Machinery @ ex-Upbound, ex-Redhat, Kubernetes, OpenSource, logician, restless, hungry & foolish, þetta reddast, http://github.com/sttts – Opinions&tweets are my own, http://mastodon.social/@sttts
Alex DeBrie @alexdebrie.bsky.social 💻 Independent consultant
⭐️ AWS Data Hero
📖 Author of DynamoDBBook.com. Creator of DynamoDBGuide.com
⚡️ Ex-@goserverless, @HudlEngineering
Timo Reimann @timoreimann.bsky.social Systems Engineer working @ Cloudflare
Twitter: @timoreimann
Massimo Re Ferré @mreferre.bsky.social Chief Psychology Officer @awscloud
More about me @ https://it20.info/about/
Fabio Rapposelli @fabio.rapposelli.org CTO @Satispay 🦄 | Ex-VMware/Broadcom Distinguished Engineer | 20+ years discovering that great tech comes from understanding both systems and souls | Speaker, mentor, perpetual student
Dan Farrelly - Inngest @danfarrelly.com CTO + Co-founder @inngest.com: The queuing and orchestration platform for modern software teams.
Former CTO @buffer.com, created @maildev.github.io
Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social Principal Applied Scientist in Microsoft CoreAI. Working on AI for coding. Co-organizer of SF Systems Meetup. CS PhD from Berkeley Sky Lab where I worked on https://hydro.run/ .
Reuben Bond @rbn.bsky.social Distributed Systems & databases person. Works at Microsoft on Orleans & Aspire
Mat Ryer @matryer.bsky.social Director Engineering @ Grafana Labs. Safe and actually useful AI. Music. Podcaster, Conference emcee, Author. Games.
Stefan Prodan @stefanprodan.com OSS maintainer of CNCF projects Flux, Flagger and the GitOps Toolkit
Head of Development @controlplane.io
🫶 #golang #cuelang #kubernetes #gitops
👉 https://github.com/stefanprodan
Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me sugarbaby cosplaying as a tech consultant • mean eastern european with unrealistically high expectations and unreasonable quality standards
🏳️🌈he/him🏳️🌈
Eddie Zaneski @eddiezane.bsky.social OSS @ Defense Unicorns | SIG CLI @kubernetes.dev
Alex Xu @bytebytego.bsky.social Follow me for system design & book-writing tips. | Author of the bestselling book series: ‘System Design Interview’ | Join 350,000+ Readers: blog.bytebytego.com
Pires @pires.dev Trouble maker, insolent and a pain in the neck. Into distributed-systems. Mostly-retired DJ. Triathlete-wannabe. 🇵🇹
ahmet alp balkan @ahmet.dev working on compute infra at LinkedIn.
ex-twitter/googlecloud/azure
dist sys enthusiast
github.com/ahmetb
Renee Shah @reneeshah.bsky.social Partner at Redpoint focused on AI, infra, security, and developer tools ⚡️
Otávio Carvalho @otavioccc.bsky.social Yet another software bricklayer.
Peter Evans @peterevans.bsky.social Software engineer @github.com
http://peterevans.dev
Fernando Meyer @fernandomeyer.com LabHacker platform engineer and musician;
I'm drawn to hard problems, abstractions, and music;
I build code, hardware, and systems meanwhile overthinking with pen and paper until they’re simple. ps: I have more notebooks than is socially defensible.
Taichi Nakashima @deeeeet.bsky.social https://deeeet.com/
Till Rohrmann @tillrohrmann.bsky.social Co-founder @restate.dev: Building resilient applications made easy! Apache Flink Committer and PMC member. Previously @ververica.com
Justin Sheehy @justinsheehy.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@justinsheehy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Nate Finch @natefinch.bsky.social Gopher at GitHub working on Copilot. Author of Mage. Dungeon Master and Magic player. Used to be NateTheFinch on the Bird Site that shall not be named.
Uwe Friedrichsen @ufried.bsky.social Uwe Friedrichsen. Longtime traveler in the world of IT. Dot Connector. Keeper of timeless wisdom. Translator between floors. System design. Resilience. Sustainability. Tries to make (not only) IT a (bit) better place.
Brandur @brandur.org Engineering @ Stainless. Ex-Heroku, Stripe, and Snowflake. Go, APIs, Ruby, and databases.
Jason Hall @imjasonh.com World's Okayest Dad, pizza enthusiast, single-hyphenate, container nerd at Chainguard
Udi Dahan @udidahan.com Posts about Software Development, Design, and Architecture.
Founder and CEO of NServiceBus. He/Him.
https://udidahan.com/
https://twitter.com/UdiDahan
https://hachyderm.io/@udidahan
Pekka Enberg @penberg.org @🏡🇫🇮🇪🇺🧑💻
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
@madhavjivrajani.bsky.social @madhavjivrajani.bsky.social Systems @ UIUC | Helping Maintain The Kubernetes Project | GopherCon Co-Chair | ♥️ Theory + Systems | Views are my own.
Fernando @francofernando.com Software Engineer for 15+ years • Algorithms, Distributed Systems, System Design, Computer Vision • Dad & husband • I write http://polymathicengineer.com
Mahdi Yusuf @mahdiyusuf.com Sr. Engineering Manager @ Apple. Distributed Systems and Data. Previously @ 1Password.
Homelabs, databases, and basketball.
✍🏾 @architecturenotes.co
Yuan Tang @terrytangyuan.xyz Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat AI | Open Source Leader at KServe, Argo, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, CNCF | Maintainer of XGBoost, TensorFlow | Keynote Speaker | Author | Technical Advisor
More info: http://terrytangyuan.xyz
We are hiring!
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social CEO @ feldera.com, the incremental compute engine for AI, ML and data teams.
Formerly a systems researcher in distributed systems, databases, cloud, OS, PL, and networking. Sci-fi and gaming nerd.
lalith.in/research
Go @golang.org Go will make you love programming again. We promise.
https://go.dev/
Dan Ronald @dronimo.bsky.social Head of Product, Application Integration at AWSCloud. Previously Co-founder at OptigoNetworks, Semi Conductors @MicroChipTech
CanadaArm SW @MDA_Space - thoughts are my own
Pooya Paridel @pooyap.bsky.social Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Workflow Experience
Cherishing life with family, playing the piano, engaging in chess, enjoying music, diving into books, and embracing nature.
Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com Product Manager AWS. Golang. Distributed Systems.
Views and opinions are my own.
Joran Dirk Greef @joran.tigerbeetle.com Creator, Founder and CEO of @tigerbeetle.com — the financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.
TigerBeetle @tigerbeetle.com The financial transactions database designed to power the next 30 years of online transaction processing.- E . @emidoots.com Bluesky is banning users for criticizing their CEO. https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/1nyygvy/bsky_now_suspending_accounts_without_warning_for/
Loris Cro ⚡ @kristoff.it VP of Community @ Zig Software Foundation • Zig Livecoding http://twitch.tv/kristoff_it • Curator of http://softwareyoucan.love • Creator of https://zine-ssg.io • Blogging http://kristoff.it
Rakhim Davletkali @rakhim.org Staff Software Engineer at IQM Quantum Computers. Home page: https://rakhim.org/
Building https://minifeed.net and https://exotext.com/
Based in southern Finland.
Abhinav Upadhyay @abhi9u.bsky.social NetBSD Dev | Python Internals, AI, compilers, databases, & performance engineering | https://blog.codingconfessions.com/
Peter Kraft @petereliaskraft.net Co-founder @ http://dbos.dev • Stanford PhD • Database Geek • Building https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py
Qian Li @qianli.dev Co-founder @dbos.dev • Stanford CS PhD
Co-organizer @southbaysystems.xyz
Working on 🐘 Database + Systems + AI
Amateur bird watcher 🦉
Personal site: qianli.dev
She/her.
Niki Tonsky @tonsky.me Fira Code, Datascript, Humble UI, #clojure
Glauber Costa @glaubercosta.bsky.social Former Linux Kernel, ScyllaDB, Datadog - storage, virtualization, low level stuff.
Founder/CEO at https://turso.tech
Matt Klein @mattklein123.dev CTO @bitdrift.io. Software engineer and creator of Envoy Proxy.
Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com Ship faster with Postgres. Open Source. Serverless.
🐘 Free Plan: https://pg.new
💬 https://neon.tech/discord
🎥 https://youtube.com/@neondatabase
ElectricSQL @electric.ax The agent platform built on sync.
https://electric.ax - see also @pglite.dev
Richard Bishop @richardb.bsky.social Distributed systems, databases, and the foundational primitives for better (more robust, efficient, accessible) computing.
Currently at Snowflake building managed Postgres. Formerly Crunchy Data and AWS.
@nazarien.bsky.social @nazarien.bsky.social
Kognise @kognise.dev “hit bskyer koggy woggy”
since you do not know me here:
- i do every type of programming
- i make every type of music
- i fly planes (but only one type of plane)
https://kognise.dev/
Ben @benjdd.com databases @planetscale.com
Some stuff I've written:
- https://pscale.link/io
- https://pscale.link/btrees
- https://pscale.link/sharding
Find me at benjdd.com
Databend @databend.com 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 & 𝗢𝗻-𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 #𝗦𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗳𝗹𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲.
𝟗𝟓%+ compatible, 𝟓𝟎%+ cost savings. Powered by #Rust.
https://github.com/databendlabs/databend
NanoVMs @nanovms.bsky.social Run linux workloads faster and safer than linux using the https://nanos.org unikernel.
@flaneur2024.bsky.social @flaneur2024.bsky.social maintainer of SlateDB
loves Rust, Datasys, Cloud Infra, AI
https://flaneur2020.github.io
Mark Raasveldt @markraasveldt.bsky.social
Jay Kreps @jaykreps.bsky.social
Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy!
Currently exploring tools that augment human memory and attention.
https://andymatuschak.org
Twitter: andy_matuschak
Mastodon: @andy@andymatuschak.org
Mark @offlinemark.bsky.social trying hard. streaming kernel dev - http://youtube.com/@offlinemark
blogging about life, art & systems programming. non-expert
work: @ableton, prev @trailofbits
home: offlinemark.com/about
berlin, de
Nile @thenile.dev PostgreSQL re-engineered for multi-tenant apps
🇳 http://thenile.dev
🌟https://git.new/nile
📹 http://youtube.com/@niledatabase
💬http://discord.gg/8UuBB84tTy
Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org