Hullo #Kubecon! We'll be at booth 457, talking about Nintendo games and the great work the @etcd team did with Antithesis this year. We'll have a few surprises we're keeping mum about for now, but we're proud to wear our love for open source distributed systems infrastructure on our sleeve!

And it's podcast day too! Here's @claresudbery.bsky.social talking about rigor in software engineering, test driven development, and how you should explain race conditions to your kids. Full episodes below.

Come for the database poetry, stay for the pineapple shirt. Or is it the other way round?

Kyle Kingsbury was on our podcast a few weeks ago with some hot takes on databases -- because what else are you gonna do on the weekend if not listen to a podcast about how databases break?

Full ep below.

He's also smart, blunt, and funny on camera, and this episode was a ton of fun! "Corruption all the way down" is a great line, but it isn't even the best one he came up with on this episode.

Links below.

Hello San Francisco! We're at the Data Streaming Summit #DSS today and tomorrow with StreamNative and a who's who of the data streaming industry.

Lawrie and Connor take the stage at 3:45 tomorrow, here's Lawrie at BugBash, on the power of randomness in testing. Full video in the comments.

This week's episode of the #BugBash podcast features @danslimmon.bsky.social on the relationship between quality and reliability, or, as he puts it, "when bugs aren't real." Some engineering philosophy for your evening commute.

Links in thread.

How many people can really say they took a distributed database from 0 to 1? Stephanie Wang did just that with @duckdb.org, and came to #BugBash to share her experience.

Full video in the thread.