Wesley Reisz
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Wesley Reisz
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Software Developer & Technologist
Equal Experts, ex-Thoughtworks, ex-VMWare
Louisville / San Francisco
(he/him)
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A brilliant start to Platform Engineering Day at #Kubecon with @hazelweakly.me speaking about hiring for platform engineering. Very insightful and also funny. And sparkles… ✨✨
April 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Great podcast from Sunil Mallya on SE Radio about Small Language Models. Lots of insights on fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, RAG vs. SLM, and what this all means for enterprise AI. 🎧
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SE Radio 661: Sunil Mallya on Small Language Models – Software Engineering Radio
se-radio.net
April 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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happy 11 year anniversary to the first 1.0 release of Spring Boot ! It was released on the 1st of April 2014

spring.io/blog/2014/04...
Spring Boot 1.0 GA Released
Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.
spring.io
March 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
My colleague Ben Wilkes published a pragmatic post about agentic engineering and the area of ChOP.

I like the vocabulary of "agentic engineering" to describe how we should be using AI to write professional software today.

www.equalexperts.com/blog/data-ai...
The trouble with vibe coding: why AI-driven software needs discipline | Equal Experts
Vibe coding sounds fun, but is it reliable? Discover why AI-powered software development needs structure, discipline, and agentic engineering to succeed.
www.equalexperts.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I continue to be humbled to lead the speaker webinar for QCon software conferences.

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There are so few conferences I'm aware of that truly practice "We Care" like QCon. Things like this webinar are great! Hope to see you this year! #QConLondon
February 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
As always, an outstanding annual review of the dbms space... Good stuff on license blowback and Databricks v Snowflake.
Buckle up because we're banging into the new year with my annual retrospective of the last year in databases! Highlights include license change blowback, Databricks vs. Snowflake gangwar, @duckdb.org's shotgun weddings, and buying a quarterback to impress your lover: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.
www.cs.cmu.edu
January 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Returning to Enabling Microservice Success @sarahjwells.bsky.social. On the right size for a microservice:

"When you're designing your microservices and finding your boundaries one thing you should be guided by is your transaction boundaries."

Seems intuitive, but it's not. 🧵(1/6)
December 31, 2024 at 3:03 PM
@mipsytipsy.bsky.social rarely disappoints. Her unfiltered reflections on "Founder Mode and the Art of Hiring” are awesome. It makes you reflect on the kind of leader you aspire to be (and why).

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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot …
charity.wtf
December 20, 2024 at 7:51 PM
One of my major takeaways #KubeConNA '24:

Dagger continues to hit it's stride. The promise was always there (how could it not with @shykes.bsky.social as CEO), but it's only 🚀.

@salaboy.com and Marcos Lilljedahl did a great job showing Dagger & DAPR together in SLC
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSen...
Taming Your Application’s Environments - Marcos Lilljedahl & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino
YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Platform Engineering is a product-focused approach to enabling stream aligned teams to deliver with substantial autonomy. Effective Platform Engineering is a great additional the conversation! This was a fun chat with some wonderful platform engineers!
Everyone’s talking Platform Engineering, but few have hands-on knowledge. The authors of Effective Platform Engineering—Ajay Chankramath, Sean Alvarez, Nic Cheneweth, and Bryan Oliver share that in a chat with @wesleyreisz.com
Effective Platform Engineering • Chankramath, Cheneweth, Oliver, Alvarez & Reisz • GOTO 2024
This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclubhttp://gotopia.tech/bookclubRead the full transcription of the interview here:https...
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December 5, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Last week's proud Tech Principal moment! Jason Roberts & Sonia Mathew discussing transforming a 35 year old mainframe into a near real-time system surfaced with a domain-oriented GraphQL!

qconsf.com/presentation...
November 26, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Just wrapped up a great Platform Engineering conversation for #GotoBookClub. Ajay Chankramath, Bryan Oliver, Sean Alvarez, & Nick Cheneweth's new book is loaded with real-world experience! Check out the book and watch for the interview online! www.manning.com/books/effect... @gotocon.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:27 PM
"Hello World". I've been heads down in client work for a while, so just now surfacing on #bluesky #hopeful #tech
November 26, 2024 at 4:20 PM