David Flanagan @rawkode.dev Helping developers & operators level-up with Kubernetes, Cloud Native, Rust, WebAssembly, & Nix.
π Founder @rawkode.academy
πΌ Kubernetes at CoreWeave
Buried Giant Studios @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social Beautiful, interactive board games with expressive systems, emergent gameplay, and player-centered storytelling. π² Oath: New Foundations π Arcs: Beyond the Reach π
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev SYSTEMS HACKERS SOLVE THE BEAR MENACE
Kyle Ferrin π§ββοΈβοΈ @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social Illustrator, Game player, and friendly guy in general. he/him.
Eustace from OVER/UNDER
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rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
@corgiboyhenry107.bsky.social @corgiboyhenry107.bsky.social Dog mom to two low rider Corgis. Loathe the tangerine turd and his criminal cronies.πππ
Love music, art, animals and critical thinking!!
Sidero @siderolabs.com Makers of Talos Linux and Omni. We help platform teams run Kubernetes without the operational heroics.
Andrew Lamb @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social Apache {DataFusion PMC}, Database Internals
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
Oblique @oblique.security Scale access securely and automatically
Leder Games @leder.games We are a spunky indie board game publisher with asymmetric tendencies. Saint Paul, MN | Our games: Vast, Root, Fort, and Ahoy! www.ledergames.com
TigerBeetle @tigerbeetle.com The financial transactions database designed to power the next 30 years of online transaction processing.
Grafana @grafana.bsky.social Open and composable observability.
https://grafana.com/
Patrick Leder @patrickleder.bsky.social Owner and President of Leder Games. Spouse and father of 2 adorable humans. He/Him
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Game designer focusing on strategy games with strong emergent narratives. Half of Wehrlegig Games. Formerly Creative Director at Leder Games. Now Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social Database Papers as a Service
Rust Language @rust-lang.org A programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Website: https://rust-lang.org/
Blog: https://blog.rust-lang.org/
Mastodon: https://social.rust-lang.org/@rust
Ben Cotton (he/him) @funnelfiasco.bsky.social Author of "Program Management for Open Source Projects" and all-around opinion haver.
"both precise and a little overdesigned" β some bot account
https://funnelfiasco.com
https://duckalignment.academy
Joy Gao @joygao.bsky.social software engineer at ClickHouse; prev: Figma, WePay
long-form βοΈ: https://expertofobsolescence.substack.com
Sam Willis @samwillis.uk Local First, TanStack DB, @pglite.dev and Sync Engines at @electric-sql.com.
More at https://samwillis.uk
turbopuffer @turbopuffer.bsky.social search every byte π {vector, full-text} search engine built from first principles on object storage. 10x cheaper, scales to 100B. powers Notion, Cursor, Linear
DuckDB @duckdb.org DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system. "DuckDB" and the DuckDB logo are registered trademarks of the DuckDB Foundation.
Nico Ritschel @nicoritschel.com sidequery.dev @sidequery.dev
Data/Product/Engineering atm.com
nicoritschel.com
Enrique @chochosmx.bsky.social Bassist, programmer, dad. CDMX.
BartΕomiej PΕotka @bwplotka.dev Senior SWE TL Google | ex Principal RedHat | Prometheus, Thanos OSS maintainer | CNCF TAG Observability TL | Efficient Go π OReillyMedia
Veronica. @veronicalg.bsky.social distributed db engineer | yoga teacher | writer | applied mathematician in progress β¨
π« & π½
jcreixell @jcreixell.bsky.social Software developer, dad, curious person, travel addict. Sometimes I write about retro gaming. Observability at Grafana Labs. Opinions are my own.
Yomi Eluwande @yomi.bsky.social Senior Software Engineer @ Polar Signals
Bill Mulligan πππ @breakawaybilly.bsky.social Cloud Native networking, observability, and security with Cilium, eBPF, and Isovalent
Newsletter cilium.io/newsletter
James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social I love product, infra/security software, and basketball. Living and working in the SF Bay Area.
Duffie Cooley @mauilion.dev Field CTO Isovalent // Proud CNCF Ambassador // I am committed to seeing others succeed.
@mauilion everywhere else 
Hamilton Ulmer @hamilton.bsky.social ποΈπποΈ design & eng @ MotherDuck. UI, statistics, databases. Ex Rill Data, Mozilla
Alfonso Subiotto @asubiotto.com Engineering at polarsignals.com & investing in devtools/data/infra
at lorimerventures.com | Previously tech lead at cockroachlabs.com
shikhar @schmizz.net Making streams serverless @s2.dev
Ian Cook @ian.columnar.tech I work on Apache Arrow and obsess about interoperability and performance in data analytics systems
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social ScyllaDB | P99 CONF | "Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read" book (https://github.com/scynthiadunlop/WritingForDevelopersBook)
Andy Grove @andygrove.io Apache Arrow & DataFusion PMC Member. Original creator of Apache DataFusion.
Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social Founder Resonate HQ | Distributed Async Await | Thinking in Distributed Systems | https://dtornow.substack.com
David Flanagan @rawkode.bsky.social Helping developers & operators level-up with Kubernetes, Cloud Native, Rust, WebAssembly, & Nix.
π Founder @rawkode.academy
πΌ CoreWeave
π Co-Organiser @kubernetes.london
π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
Will Hegedus @hegedus.wtf Dad x4 π¨βπ©βπ¦βπ¦
Senior SRE Manager focused on observabilityπ§π»βπ»
Author of "Mastering Prometheus" π
Trying my best π₯
Jake Gold @jacob.gold Building AI infra @clor.com in SF Bay Area. Helped launch and scale Vibecode and Bluesky. Prev: Nuro, Docker, Google, and founder.
Addicted to history, computers, and open systems.
Unconditional love for all conscious life.
https://jacob.gold
Tim Bray π¨π¦ @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
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Eric Chiang @ericchiang.bsky.social @oblique.security. Ex Google Security, CoreOS.
ericchiang.github.io
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
Laurie @laurieontech.dev Developing software one mistake at a time. LEGO obsessed.
Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com Heir to the Heinz Ketchup fortune.
https://somewhattolerable.com
Flox @flox.dev https://flox.dev
https://github.com/flox/flox
flox init
flox install <package>
flox activate
git add .flox/
git commit -m 'add repeatable dev environment'
git push
Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com I do computers. Married to @radkat.fitzpat.com. Three kids. Xoogler.
Go (#golang) team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached. Currently at @Tailscale.com making WireGuard easy.
Seattle, WA // Bainbridge
Kyle Mathews @kyle.bricolage.io Likes building things. Founder/CPO @electricsql. Founder @ Gatsby
@gnurizen.bsky.social @gnurizen.bsky.social 
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
Matt Layher @mdlayher.com Software Engineer at PlanetScale. Go, Rust, Linux, networking, and open source software. On and ever upward. he/him.
@halvarflake.bsky.social @halvarflake.bsky.social 
Adriana Porter Felt @apf.bsky.social I like writing silly skeets, but that doesn't pay so I also make Google Chrome. mamΓ‘, Eng Director, volunteer at Second Harvest. πΊπ²π¨π·
Twitter: @__apf__
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own.
https://sarah.dev
Sr Director of Engineering @ Google: Core Web, Android, iOS Infrastructure
Formerly Vue Core β’
Frontend Masters teacher β’
O'Reilly Author β’
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://github.com/sdras
brandon @dimcheff.wtf Ann Arborite at heart, in Jackson Hole for a while. Computerist, cat dad, best skier on the mountain. Go Blue. Build housing, transit, and bike lanes. Ban cars. π he/him
as seen on vice.com
signal: @bdimcheff.1701
Tom Wilkie @tomwilkie.bsky.social CTO @ Grafana Labs (@grafana.bsky.social)
London-based
The Pragmatic Engineer. @pragmaticengineer.com Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech. The #1 technology newsletter on Substack. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/about
James Turnbull @kartar.net π¦πΊπΊπΈ Engineer, angel investor, & author. Ex-@Glitch, @Microsoft, @kickstarter, @docker. Likes tattoos, food & wine. He/him/his.
Jake Moshenko @jakemoshenko.bsky.social CEO at AuthZed
Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu.
Blog: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog
Signal: @mjg.59
He/him
Opinions expressed here are mine, not my employer's
Renee Shah @reneeshah.bsky.social Partner at Redpoint focused on AI, infra, security, and developer tools β‘οΈ
Qian Li @qianli.dev Co-founder @dbos.dev β’ Stanford CS PhD
Co-organizer @southbaysystems.xyz
Working on π Database + Systems + AI
Amateur bird watcher π¦
Personal site: qianli.dev
She/her.
Nikhil Benesch @benesch.bsky.social Systems engineer @turbopuffer.bsky.social. Former CTO @materialize.com.
Sirupsen @sirupsen.bsky.social ceo & cofounder of turbopuffer.com. prev infra @Shopify π©π°->π¨π¦
Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info Principal Software Engineer, Genesys | ε‘ηΏε€±ι©¬
https://o11y.news
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
Vidmaster (+Waldo, Rayne, & Frankie) @vidmaster.net Shitpost engineer. Corgis, application security, gaming, and bad posts. Opinions my own unless theyβre terrible in which case they are definitely my own. He/him, 40, Boise ID.
Occasionally blogging my D&D campaign at https://vidmaster.net
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...π
Tim Hockin @thock.in I like writing software, even if I don't get to do it much anymore. Kubernetes. Star Wars nerd, Expanse fan, dad, dork. 
CS2 @counter-strike.net Your favorite first person shooterβs favorite first person shooter.
Todd H. Gardner @toddhgardner.com I start things.
https://www.toddhgardner.com/
Natalie Vais @nvais.bsky.social gp at spark capital β¨ databases, infra, dev tools
Dash0 @dash0.com OpenTelemetry-Native Observability.
Because details matter.
No lock-in.
No surprises.
No hassle.
www.dash0.com
Ian Coldwater π§π« @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, container escape artist, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk π΄
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3l3frqadlo32h
Nicolai von Neudeck πΊπ¦ @vonneudeck.com General Purpose Nerd
Consultant for SRE, Resilience Engineering, Cultural Anthropology, Housing, Populism, Antisemitism
How things fail and how anything ever worked at all
πBerlin/Zuid-Limburg/Penn-ar-Bed/Aude
Signal: nicolai.01
Manoj Vivek @manojvivek.bsky.social Software Engineer @polarsignals.com. Also building responsively.app.
π¦ Michael Friedrich π @dnsmichi.dev π¦ Principal Developer Advocate @GitLab.com
π All-remote in Nuremberg
π Embedded AI research
π‘οΈ Agentic AI modernization
πΊοΈ #lego #travel #drageekeksi #embedded #ai
π https://dnsmichi.com/about/
authzed @authzed.com Authorization that scales
π·ββοΈ Creators of https://spicedb.io
π« Inspired by Google's https://zanzibar.tech
𧑠YC W21
Read about how OpenAI securely connects enterprise knowledge with ChatGPT by using AuthZed: https://authzed.com/customers/openai
Honeycomb @honeycomb.bsky.social Observability for a distributed world. Designed for engineers to debug platforms, microservices, serverless apps, and enable collaborative problem-solving. 
Restate @restate.dev Restate is the platform for building resilient applications that tolerate all infrastructure faults w/o the need for a PhD. https://restate.dev
Tailscale @tailscale.com Your private programmable network.
Chainguard @chainguard.bsky.social Making the software supply chain secure by default. 
Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com Founder polarsignals.com π§ βοΈ Building parca.dev, Prometheus maintainer. Distributed systems, databases, and performance engineering. Actually born in Berlin. (he/him)
Polar Signals @polarsignals.com A cool company. π§
π Unlock the full potential of your code with real-time profiling.
Creators of Parca!
polarsignals.com
Julius Volz @juliusv.com π Co-founder prometheus.io
π’ Founder promlabs.com and promcon.io
π¨πΌβπ« Teaching monitoring with Prometheus: training.promlabs.com
π Berlin
Timo Reimann @timoreimann.bsky.social Systems Engineer working @ Cloudflare
Twitter: @timoreimann
Sergiusz Urbaniak @s-urbaniak.bsky.social Team Lead, Developer @MongoDB, ex-@RedHat, ex-@CoreOS, ex-@eBay, @PrometheusIO, @KubernetesIO, Ham Radio DL1SUR, Way too many computers, He/Him/His
Felix GeisendΓΆrfer @felixge.de Working at Datadog on Go Profiling, Performance, OpenTelemetry and more.
Before:
- Manufacturing Observability at Apple
- Co-founder at Transloadit
- Node.js Core Dev
Kemal Akkoyun @kakkoyun.me GIF Monger, builder, tinkerer and geek.
Observability, Reliability, Performance. Mostly focused on #Go, #eBPF and #OpenTelemetry
@prometheus.io, and @opentelemetry.io team member.
#profiling #kubernetes #golang #zig #linux #perf
Nicolas Takashi @ntakashi.com Software Engineer talking about Observability | Cloud-Native | SDE | SRE
Sam Lambert @samlambert.com CEO @planetscale.com