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Alexander Weiher

@alexander.weiher.dev

#dev #security #platformEngineering Currently living in Leipzig, Germany I speak german but will post in english here. My focus here is primary professional information and networking. My private account is over at mastodon ;)

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I heard someone describe Azure as โ€œthe Boomer cloudโ€

Crude but also accurate

Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP

14.10.2025 21:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 155    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Google forcing customers to drink gemini, as demonstrated by a woman forcing another to drink milk

Google forcing customers to drink gemini, as demonstrated by a woman forcing another to drink milk

Okay, where did Google hide the "fuck off, go away" toggle for Gemini in Workspaces this week?

They're rapidly running out of goodwill to burn.

22.01.2025 14:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 118    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
DSQL Vignette: Reads and Compute - Marc's Blog

My second blog post on Aurora DSQL, with a deep dive on how reads work: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

04.12.2024 17:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 101    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Years ago when I was CTO at an agency in NYC, I stopped by a vendor booth (rhymes with Splunk) at a conf, and while I was asking questions about corp pricing and licenses, he interrupted me mid-word to tell me how beautiful my eyes were.

Heโ€™s not wrong. My eyes are gorgeous but WTFF

Did not buy

04.12.2024 03:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 74    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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๐Ÿ“ข Calling all #PlatformEngineering folks: Do you practice Platform as a Product?
I've been talking about Platform as a Product for the past few years horovits.medium.com/a0cad2cdc819..., and I'm glad to see it's become a popular topic recently in talks and articles.

But do co's really do itโ“
[1/n]

02.12.2024 07:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

29.11.2024 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41493    ๐Ÿ” 11356    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 524    ๐Ÿ“Œ 434

There no vendor lock-in quite like โ€œwe built it ourselvesโ€

13.09.2023 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Got 3 new zines today! โ˜บ๏ธ

29.11.2024 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Platform Engineering on Kubernetes Empower your team with platforms built on top of Kubernetes using open source tools.</b> Adopting Kubernetes is complexโ€”especially when youโ€™re working in an organization with multiple teams, deployin...

Currently listening to the Audiobook version of the great "Platform Engineering on Kubernetes"

I wish more technical books are available as audiobook, as I have no time to read a (tech-)book, but have often time to listen to something while doing houshold chores.

www.manning.com/books/platfo...

29.11.2024 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Jeff Goldblum Jurassic park meme, text is 

you devs were so preoccupied with whether you *could* embed a SQLlite database in a pgsql table

you didn't stop to think if you should

Jeff Goldblum Jurassic park meme, text is you devs were so preoccupied with whether you *could* embed a SQLlite database in a pgsql table you didn't stop to think if you should

19.11.2024 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of my Bluesky profile, showing @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io as the handle

Screenshot of my Bluesky profile, showing @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io as the handle

Developers, do you want to verify yourself here but don't have a personal domain? You can use your GitHub account! ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿฑ

I temporarily renamed myself to @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io :)

23.11.2024 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 900    ๐Ÿ” 339    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 72

Hello Internet! ๐Ÿ‘‹ First post here - not because I just migrated from xitter but because everyone just joined bsky!

Main focus here is mostly my professional / business work, connect with others and get some new ideas. #NewHere

28.11.2024 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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