Alexis "Horgix" Chotard
@horgix.fr
Staff SRE at @payfiteng.bsky.social & Maître Raclettier — Mostly posting about conferences & tech — 🔧 Automation, ❤️ Open-Source, ⚙️ Rust, 📣🎙️ Conferences {organizer, speaker, frequent attendee}
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Alexis "Horgix" Chotard
@horgix.fr
· Apr 4
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And by the way, I'm leaving the #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon as an attendee but will soon be at another conference - but as a speaker this time!
If you're attending at @devoxx.fr in 2 weeks and want to hear about incident management (during 3 hours 👀), vote/favorite mobile.devoxx.com/events/devox... !
If you're attending at @devoxx.fr in 2 weeks and want to hear about incident management (during 3 hours 👀), vote/favorite mobile.devoxx.com/events/devox... !
From Gregor Hohpe and Jean-Francois Landreau at #PlatformCon :
- Building compliance into the platform helps with adoption
- Guardrails for absolute emergencies, but otherwise, fast feedback and shifting left
- Don't mandate using your platform
- Reduce cognitive load without servicing
- Building compliance into the platform helps with adoption
- Guardrails for absolute emergencies, but otherwise, fast feedback and shifting left
- Don't mandate using your platform
- Reduce cognitive load without servicing
October 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
From Gregor Hohpe and Jean-Francois Landreau at #PlatformCon :
- Building compliance into the platform helps with adoption
- Guardrails for absolute emergencies, but otherwise, fast feedback and shifting left
- Don't mandate using your platform
- Reduce cognitive load without servicing
- Building compliance into the platform helps with adoption
- Guardrails for absolute emergencies, but otherwise, fast feedback and shifting left
- Don't mandate using your platform
- Reduce cognitive load without servicing
Missed my talk today at the #PlatformCon Live Paris about PayFit Internal (Developer, but not only) Platform, where we stand and what we went through?
While waiting for the recording, here's the content (in 🇫🇷) I shared: s.42l.fr/platformcon-...
30min was short, so shoot questions here on Bsky 🙂
While waiting for the recording, here's the content (in 🇫🇷) I shared: s.42l.fr/platformcon-...
30min was short, so shoot questions here on Bsky 🙂
Dans les coulisses d’une plateforme chez une licorne française — PlatformCon Live Paris 2025 (2025-10-16)
s.42l.fr
October 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Missed my talk today at the #PlatformCon Live Paris about PayFit Internal (Developer, but not only) Platform, where we stand and what we went through?
While waiting for the recording, here's the content (in 🇫🇷) I shared: s.42l.fr/platformcon-...
30min was short, so shoot questions here on Bsky 🙂
While waiting for the recording, here's the content (in 🇫🇷) I shared: s.42l.fr/platformcon-...
30min was short, so shoot questions here on Bsky 🙂
As always, too much interesting things in a @kelseyhightower.com talk to list them all live from the #PlatformCon ; the gist of it:
- Learn to scale down
- You gotta understand the foundation (<3)
- Finish what you start
- Be intentional, not just reaction
- Read Promise Theory
With great humor :)
- Learn to scale down
- You gotta understand the foundation (<3)
- Finish what you start
- Be intentional, not just reaction
- Read Promise Theory
With great humor :)
October 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
As always, too much interesting things in a @kelseyhightower.com talk to list them all live from the #PlatformCon ; the gist of it:
- Learn to scale down
- You gotta understand the foundation (<3)
- Finish what you start
- Be intentional, not just reaction
- Read Promise Theory
With great humor :)
- Learn to scale down
- You gotta understand the foundation (<3)
- Finish what you start
- Be intentional, not just reaction
- Read Promise Theory
With great humor :)
Can't wait for tomorrow: I'll be speaking at the #PlatformCon in Paris, along in the agenda with incredible people like @kelseyhightower.com, Gregor Hohpe and other - how lucky I am!
Come and listen about what Platform Engineering looks like behind the scene at @payfiteng.bsky.social at 14:30 :)
Come and listen about what Platform Engineering looks like behind the scene at @payfiteng.bsky.social at 14:30 :)
October 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Can't wait for tomorrow: I'll be speaking at the #PlatformCon in Paris, along in the agenda with incredible people like @kelseyhightower.com, Gregor Hohpe and other - how lucky I am!
Come and listen about what Platform Engineering looks like behind the scene at @payfiteng.bsky.social at 14:30 :)
Come and listen about what Platform Engineering looks like behind the scene at @payfiteng.bsky.social at 14:30 :)
Reposted by Alexis "Horgix" Chotard
Thank you @horgix.fr for sponsoring Conference Hall and Open Source projects. It helps us a lot!
github.com/conference-h...
github.com/conference-h...
GitHub - conference-hall/conference-hall: Open SaaS platform to manage CFPs
Open SaaS platform to manage CFPs. Contribute to conference-hall/conference-hall development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Thank you @horgix.fr for sponsoring Conference Hall and Open Source projects. It helps us a lot!
github.com/conference-h...
github.com/conference-h...
Reposted by Alexis "Horgix" Chotard
Funny how we force engineers to write ADRs for every trade‑off, yet billion‑dollar strategic bets live in hallway whispers and fluffy slide decks.
What if we treated business decisions like architecture? Context, options, trade‑offs, metrics, all in a repo, version‑controlled and reviewed?
What if we treated business decisions like architecture? Context, options, trade‑offs, metrics, all in a repo, version‑controlled and reviewed?
July 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Funny how we force engineers to write ADRs for every trade‑off, yet billion‑dollar strategic bets live in hallway whispers and fluffy slide decks.
What if we treated business decisions like architecture? Context, options, trade‑offs, metrics, all in a repo, version‑controlled and reviewed?
What if we treated business decisions like architecture? Context, options, trade‑offs, metrics, all in a repo, version‑controlled and reviewed?
Reposted by Alexis "Horgix" Chotard
🎬 Les vidéos du #Breizhcamp2025 sont là !
Tous les trésors du code enfin dévoilés 💎
Pas besoin de fouet, juste d'un clic
www.breizhcamp.org/conference/p...
Ou directement :
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tous les trésors du code enfin dévoilés 💎
Pas besoin de fouet, juste d'un clic
www.breizhcamp.org/conference/p...
Ou directement :
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
July 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🎬 Les vidéos du #Breizhcamp2025 sont là !
Tous les trésors du code enfin dévoilés 💎
Pas besoin de fouet, juste d'un clic
www.breizhcamp.org/conference/p...
Ou directement :
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tous les trésors du code enfin dévoilés 💎
Pas besoin de fouet, juste d'un clic
www.breizhcamp.org/conference/p...
Ou directement :
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Reposted by Alexis "Horgix" Chotard
An interesting undocumented API just hit my automation. Looks like AWS is planning a Vector DB for S3? Or some kind of storage Vector storage offering? Operations include:
- QueryVectors
- PutVectors
- PutVectorBucketPolicy
- ListVectors
- ListVectorBuckets
- QueryVectors
- PutVectors
- PutVectorBucketPolicy
- ListVectors
- ListVectorBuckets
July 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
An interesting undocumented API just hit my automation. Looks like AWS is planning a Vector DB for S3? Or some kind of storage Vector storage offering? Operations include:
- QueryVectors
- PutVectors
- PutVectorBucketPolicy
- ListVectors
- ListVectorBuckets
- QueryVectors
- PutVectors
- PutVectorBucketPolicy
- ListVectors
- ListVectorBuckets
Reposted by Alexis "Horgix" Chotard
Introducing OpenCLI
Introducing OpenCLI
Patrik Svensson's blog
patriksvensson.se
July 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Introducing OpenCLI
Reposted by Alexis "Horgix" Chotard
Lies we tell ourselves to keep using #Golang
Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
In the two years since I’ve posted I want off Mr Golang’s Wild Ride, it’s made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere.
And every time, it elicits the ...
fasterthanli.me
July 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Lies we tell ourselves to keep using #Golang
One more day of "damn I love Arch Linux". I get an error while updating approximately once every 2 years - and it happened today. First reflex: check archlinux.org - and here we go without surprise, it's documented on the frontpage with the fix 💙 (archlinux.org/news/linux-f...). 20sec resolution.
Arch Linux - News: linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention
2025-06-21 - Jan Alexander Steffens
archlinux.org
July 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
One more day of "damn I love Arch Linux". I get an error while updating approximately once every 2 years - and it happened today. First reflex: check archlinux.org - and here we go without surprise, it's documented on the frontpage with the fix 💙 (archlinux.org/news/linux-f...). 20sec resolution.
Interested to learn about what it (literally) costs to build a unicorn scale-up such as @payfiteng.bsky.social on top of (a lot of) third parties?
I'll be sharing our bills and analyzing them at @breizhcamp.org this afternoon at 16:00 in Amphi A, and will to my best to wrap the event nicely! :)
I'll be sharing our bills and analyzing them at @breizhcamp.org this afternoon at 16:00 in Amphi A, and will to my best to wrap the event nicely! :)
June 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Interested to learn about what it (literally) costs to build a unicorn scale-up such as @payfiteng.bsky.social on top of (a lot of) third parties?
I'll be sharing our bills and analyzing them at @breizhcamp.org this afternoon at 16:00 in Amphi A, and will to my best to wrap the event nicely! :)
I'll be sharing our bills and analyzing them at @breizhcamp.org this afternoon at 16:00 in Amphi A, and will to my best to wrap the event nicely! :)
Name a more iconic duo than @julientopcu.com & @tpierrain.bsky.social to talk about architecture patterns & modularity at @breizhcamp.org 🤩 Let's see what Hive looks like :)
Time to sit back & listen rather than taking notes - if you can't wait for the recording → bsky.app/profile/juli... I guess!
Time to sit back & listen rather than taking notes - if you can't wait for the recording → bsky.app/profile/juli... I guess!
June 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Name a more iconic duo than @julientopcu.com & @tpierrain.bsky.social to talk about architecture patterns & modularity at @breizhcamp.org 🤩 Let's see what Hive looks like :)
Time to sit back & listen rather than taking notes - if you can't wait for the recording → bsky.app/profile/juli... I guess!
Time to sit back & listen rather than taking notes - if you can't wait for the recording → bsky.app/profile/juli... I guess!
Last day of @breizhcamp.org opening with a talk on the wizardry of speedrunning Paper Mario!
It's always amazing how far they go to find glitches and exploit them; 5 years of work to find a way to do arbitrary code execution, and so many steps to then do it!
Glad we have @speedons.fr in France :D
It's always amazing how far they go to find glitches and exploit them; 5 years of work to find a way to do arbitrary code execution, and so many steps to then do it!
Glad we have @speedons.fr in France :D
June 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Last day of @breizhcamp.org opening with a talk on the wizardry of speedrunning Paper Mario!
It's always amazing how far they go to find glitches and exploit them; 5 years of work to find a way to do arbitrary code execution, and so many steps to then do it!
Glad we have @speedons.fr in France :D
It's always amazing how far they go to find glitches and exploit them; 5 years of work to find a way to do arbitrary code execution, and so many steps to then do it!
Glad we have @speedons.fr in France :D
Missed my talk today at @breizhcamp.org about Diátaxis applied to platform documentation (theory + experience feedback from @payfiteng.bsky.social) ?
While waiting for the recording, here's the content (in 🇫🇷) I presented: s.42l.fr/breizhcamp20...
25min was short, so shoot questions here on Bsky 🙂
While waiting for the recording, here's the content (in 🇫🇷) I presented: s.42l.fr/breizhcamp20...
25min was short, so shoot questions here on Bsky 🙂
June 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Missed my talk today at @breizhcamp.org about Diátaxis applied to platform documentation (theory + experience feedback from @payfiteng.bsky.social) ?
While waiting for the recording, here's the content (in 🇫🇷) I presented: s.42l.fr/breizhcamp20...
25min was short, so shoot questions here on Bsky 🙂
While waiting for the recording, here's the content (in 🇫🇷) I presented: s.42l.fr/breizhcamp20...
25min was short, so shoot questions here on Bsky 🙂
I'm a simple man - I see a talk with @rluta.bsky.social speaking on the agenda of @breizhcamp.org, I go there :D
Let's find out some tips on how to evolve legacy software painlessly!
I frequently share his talk on performance (www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEye...) to people - hopefully this one too :)
Let's find out some tips on how to evolve legacy software painlessly!
I frequently share his talk on performance (www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEye...) to people - hopefully this one too :)
June 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I'm a simple man - I see a talk with @rluta.bsky.social speaking on the agenda of @breizhcamp.org, I go there :D
Let's find out some tips on how to evolve legacy software painlessly!
I frequently share his talk on performance (www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEye...) to people - hopefully this one too :)
Let's find out some tips on how to evolve legacy software painlessly!
I frequently share his talk on performance (www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEye...) to people - hopefully this one too :)
Interested to learn about Diátaxis (diataxis.fr) and how we applied it to our internal developer platform's doc (and more) at @payfiteng.bsky.social ?
I'll be presenting it this afternoon at @breizhcamp.org at 17:35 in Amphi E, and I'll keep you awake for the last talk of the day !
I'll be presenting it this afternoon at @breizhcamp.org at 17:35 in Amphi E, and I'll keep you awake for the last talk of the day !
Diátaxis
Diátaxis is a widely-adopted, pragmatic and systematic approach to thinking about and creating documentation.
diataxis.fr
June 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Interested to learn about Diátaxis (diataxis.fr) and how we applied it to our internal developer platform's doc (and more) at @payfiteng.bsky.social ?
I'll be presenting it this afternoon at @breizhcamp.org at 17:35 in Amphi E, and I'll keep you awake for the last talk of the day !
I'll be presenting it this afternoon at @breizhcamp.org at 17:35 in Amphi E, and I'll keep you awake for the last talk of the day !
A talk about mechanical keyboard at @breizhcamp.org ? Of course count me in! Can't wait to see what they cover - as someone already neck-deep in the rabbit hole of mech keyboards, I even contemplated submitting such a talk a while back 😅
I wonder if the Mechanical Keyboards Paris meetup still exist
I wonder if the Mechanical Keyboards Paris meetup still exist
June 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
A talk about mechanical keyboard at @breizhcamp.org ? Of course count me in! Can't wait to see what they cover - as someone already neck-deep in the rabbit hole of mech keyboards, I even contemplated submitting such a talk a while back 😅
I wonder if the Mechanical Keyboards Paris meetup still exist
I wonder if the Mechanical Keyboards Paris meetup still exist
2nd day of @breizhcamp.org opening with a keynote by @jbriault.fr about the now almost famous "Cloud des Restos du Coeurr" 💜 Even if by now I know most of the content (but it keeps getting updated!), I keep being amazed by the completeness of their work
Super cool choice for a keynote :)
Super cool choice for a keynote :)
June 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
2nd day of @breizhcamp.org opening with a keynote by @jbriault.fr about the now almost famous "Cloud des Restos du Coeurr" 💜 Even if by now I know most of the content (but it keeps getting updated!), I keep being amazed by the completeness of their work
Super cool choice for a keynote :)
Super cool choice for a keynote :)
And now at @breizhcamp.org : Hafsa El Maizi from @shodo.io, about CI/CD pipelines concepts
I can already related with the "as a developer, I noticed that CI/CD pipelines are often obscure for devs" introduction — (sadly) heard/saw that so many times recently
I can already related with the "as a developer, I noticed that CI/CD pipelines are often obscure for devs" introduction — (sadly) heard/saw that so many times recently
June 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
And now at @breizhcamp.org : Hafsa El Maizi from @shodo.io, about CI/CD pipelines concepts
I can already related with the "as a developer, I noticed that CI/CD pipelines are often obscure for devs" introduction — (sadly) heard/saw that so many times recently
I can already related with the "as a developer, I noticed that CI/CD pipelines are often obscure for devs" introduction — (sadly) heard/saw that so many times recently
And that's a wrap for @permacodeur.fr talk on HTMX here at @breizhcamp.org! I already saw it at other conferences so only attended the questions, they're always interesting and help grasp perception :)
What a week for him - has to leave to present his talk on "meta-laws" at @sunnytech.bsky.social
What a week for him - has to leave to present his talk on "meta-laws" at @sunnytech.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
And that's a wrap for @permacodeur.fr talk on HTMX here at @breizhcamp.org! I already saw it at other conferences so only attended the questions, they're always interesting and help grasp perception :)
What a week for him - has to leave to present his talk on "meta-laws" at @sunnytech.bsky.social
What a week for him - has to leave to present his talk on "meta-laws" at @sunnytech.bsky.social
Here we go for the cool @breizhcamp.org conference in Rennes, where I'll be presenting 2 talks over the next days: one on Diátaxis and platform doc, and the other on what it literally costs to build a scale-up on 3rd parties - based on @payfiteng.bsky.social !
Thanks to organizers for their trust ♥
Thanks to organizers for their trust ♥
June 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Here we go for the cool @breizhcamp.org conference in Rennes, where I'll be presenting 2 talks over the next days: one on Diátaxis and platform doc, and the other on what it literally costs to build a scale-up on 3rd parties - based on @payfiteng.bsky.social !
Thanks to organizers for their trust ♥
Thanks to organizers for their trust ♥
Having @paulinejamin.bsky.social and Thomas Pierrain for a DDD talk is the perfect way to (nearly) wrap up @devoxx.fr !
Common pitfalls as humans:
- Obsession of aggregates and of events choregraphy
- Vampire bounded contexts
- Seeing eventual consistency as a goal and not a mean
Common pitfalls as humans:
- Obsession of aggregates and of events choregraphy
- Vampire bounded contexts
- Seeing eventual consistency as a goal and not a mean
April 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Having @paulinejamin.bsky.social and Thomas Pierrain for a DDD talk is the perfect way to (nearly) wrap up @devoxx.fr !
Common pitfalls as humans:
- Obsession of aggregates and of events choregraphy
- Vampire bounded contexts
- Seeing eventual consistency as a goal and not a mean
Common pitfalls as humans:
- Obsession of aggregates and of events choregraphy
- Vampire bounded contexts
- Seeing eventual consistency as a goal and not a mean
Reposted by Alexis "Horgix" Chotard
Missed our (@horgix.fr @kobaye.bsky.social @luski.bsky.social) 3 hours deep-dive talk today at @devoxx.fr about incidents management from 0 to Hero, including our very own PayFit real life feedback?
While waiting for the recording, here is the content (in 🇫🇷) I presented:
s.42l.fr/devoxx-fr-20...
While waiting for the recording, here is the content (in 🇫🇷) I presented:
s.42l.fr/devoxx-fr-20...
s.42l.fr
April 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Missed our (@horgix.fr @kobaye.bsky.social @luski.bsky.social) 3 hours deep-dive talk today at @devoxx.fr about incidents management from 0 to Hero, including our very own PayFit real life feedback?
While waiting for the recording, here is the content (in 🇫🇷) I presented:
s.42l.fr/devoxx-fr-20...
While waiting for the recording, here is the content (in 🇫🇷) I presented:
s.42l.fr/devoxx-fr-20...
Day 2 of @devoxx.fr ! You want to have fun with an incident severity wheel and discover how the hell we were able to fit a "poulposaure" in our 3 hours-long talk about incident management (& learn from @payfiteng.bsky.social XP) ? Come and see us in at 13:30 ☺️
→ mobile.devoxx.com/events/devox...
→ mobile.devoxx.com/events/devox...
April 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Day 2 of @devoxx.fr ! You want to have fun with an incident severity wheel and discover how the hell we were able to fit a "poulposaure" in our 3 hours-long talk about incident management (& learn from @payfiteng.bsky.social XP) ? Come and see us in at 13:30 ☺️
→ mobile.devoxx.com/events/devox...
→ mobile.devoxx.com/events/devox...