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Tyler Treat
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Introspections of a software engineer
For some reason LinkedIn thinks I'm super into maritime content.
June 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The future of infrastructure management is controller-driven. theyamlengineer.com/controller-d...
The YAML Engineer
A new approach to Kubernetes configuration management and resource orchestration.
theyamlengineer.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Reposted by Tyler Treat
Stop Treating YAML Like a String theyamlengineer.com/stop-treatin...
The YAML Engineer
A new approach to Kubernetes configuration management and resource orchestration.
theyamlengineer.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A core part of Real Kinetic's business is helping organizations establish platform engineering as a practice, but the existing tooling available today is lacking. That's why we're excited to open source Koreo, the platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes. koreo.dev
The platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes | Koreo
Koreo is a new approach to Kubernetes configuration management empowering developers and platform teams through programmable workflows and structured data
koreo.dev
April 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If you've ever built Kubernetes integrations you'd know that "plural" might be the dumbest fucking thing perhaps in the entirety of Kubernetes.
January 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Whispers: most companies don't run at Netflix scale and can very economically run their core business on serverless just fine. bsky.app/profile/theb...
An eng manager at Netflix once told me that "It'd cost 7x to run Netflix if Netflix ran on Lambda". But what he said next was even more insightful.

"But, not everything at Netflix runs at Netflix scale."

And that's true for most enterprises!
December 29, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Oh sweet for $200/mo I can get access to GPT-4o with o1-mini Advanced Voice which also includes o1 pro mode! And there are graphs that show how much gooder this is for me. openai.com/index/introd...
Introducing ChatGPT Pro
Broadening usage of frontier AI
openai.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Reposted by Tyler Treat
If you're working on something really new, I don't think you really know what your idea is until you've built a prototype.

There's a critical tangibility to seeing some part of the vision made real. Accept no substitutes, and be skeptical of big claims without concrete demos.
November 15, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Lambda is only 10 years old?? What even is time
November 14, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Posted this last week on the former Bird Site with the election noise. I'm generally an AI skeptic b/c companies are trying to hock AI shit and I haven't seen compelling use cases. We recently implemented Vertex AI to generate IaC and was actually impressed realkinetic.substack.com/p/automating...
Automating Infrastructure as Code with Vertex AI
How to build a context-aware AI agent
realkinetic.substack.com
November 13, 2024 at 5:38 PM
This post by @skamille.bsky.social is on point. So often I see dev tools teams masquerading as platform eng. They build scripts/tools, not products. Usually it's because they either don't want to have skin in the game or they don't have a mandate from leadership. skamille.medium.com/platform-eng...
Platform Engineering Beyond CFEngine
Notes on Sustainable Platform Engineering
skamille.medium.com
November 12, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Trying this thing out...
November 12, 2024 at 9:03 PM