IBM Distinguished Engineer focusing on SRE and Cloud Service Management & Operations, Karateka, husband, proud father of three (and yes, tweets are my own).
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John C. Dvorak
April 5th, 1946 - July 20th, 2026
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The First AI-Generated Video That Looks Super Real
Microsoft Research announced VASA-1.
It takes a single portrait photo and speech audio and produces a hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements generated in real-time.
This is amazing, given that the AI-generated video looks very real!
Of course, these examples will likely be cherry-picked, but this is still amazing.
My favorite use-case for this tech is to revive old actors like Cary Grant in new movies with this tech :)
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Been waiting for this to publish: @OpenTofuOrg responds to HashiCorp's cease-and-desist letter. opentofu.org/blog/our-respon…
This answers my concerns, and I appreciate how thoughtful, fair, and *kind* it is. I was hasty in my judgment, and am grateful for their generous reply.
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Join us for our next #SRE Meetup at Google in Munich.
Once again, we are coming together for an evening full of interesting talks, topics, people and delicious food.
More Information about this event can be found here: meetup.com/sremuc/events/295…
#SREMUC #Google
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Alternatives to GitHub Copilot, and some of their characteristics.
Re-posting as my earlier share had a few inaccuracies (namely: Codeium does not train on non-permissive licenses, as they detailed here: codeium.com/blog/copilot-tra…)
More: newsletter.pragmaticengineer…
ALT Product Trained on Self hosting option Fine tuned to company codebase Status Open source Pricing Tabnine Open source code with permissive licenses. Yes (enterprise plan) Yes (enterprise plan) Production No Free + Paid GitHub Copilot Publicly available code (regardless of license) No No Production No Paid Replit Ghostwriter Publicly available code (regardless of license) No No Production No Paid Amazon CodeWhisperer Amazon and open-source code: license not specified No No Preview No Free Codeium Own model. Trained on permissive licenses. Yes (enterprise plan) Yes Production Some plugins Free + Paid SourceGraph Cody Users can select: OpenAI or Anthropic currently. Future plans for other models. Yes for Sourcegraph. Cody: not yet; it talks with third-party LLM providers. No Experimental Yes N/A CodeComplete Open source code with permissive licenses Yes Yes Private beta No N/A FauxPilot Salesforce CodeGen: open source but includes code with non-permissive license Yes No Production
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Today, we visited @MaibornWolff in Munich and got together for very interesting talks about #SRE.
Thank you to all speakers and attendees. It's so nice to see this event growing.
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Registration for #LFIConf23 closes on 15 Jan, or sooner if the conference reaches capacity (250 people). You should register today; I hope to see you there! learningfromincidents.io/lea…
Congratulations to our colleagues Cathy Chen, @niallm, @KrantiParisa, @tmu! The @mlopscommunity has awarded "Reliable Machine Learning" Best MLOps Book:
"For those looking to gain deep insights into Production ML, search no further." google.smh.re/22q2
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I had a blast introducing SREconference@IBM this afternoon (morning for our US audience!). I loved the insights shared by our keynote speakers (@ingoa @DavidLLeigh @allspaw Varun Bijlani). Time for dinner with my family before stepping back for Q&A on my…lnkd.in/egBDyjpA
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Join us for the SRE Meetup in Munich.
If you want to give a talk next time, contact us.
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Everyone in the world needs to watch this IMMEDIATELY.
NO EXCEPTIONS
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last month i wrote a post about engineering rituals i have known and loved: charity.wtf/2022/08/15/ritua….
later, @slhamlet picked up on it and went deeper into the history of what is probably the most famous Linden engineering ritual, the Shrek Ears. (it's a great post 👇)
In case you missed it, @mipsytipsy shares wild behind-the-scenes stories of keeping Second Life running ("a crazy complex distributed system, even by today's standards") and why when it went offline, someone on the dev team wore Shrek Ears.
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It is incredible to observe how fast the tech world changes.
Companies which seem unassailable suddenly disappear into footnotes of history.
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Ladies, your HELP please. How can I improve my job advert? I've had zero female applicants and I'd love to know what I am doing wrong. I don't believe there are no female software engineers out there looking for work.
Ad for reference: lnkd.in/dGWSyHrq
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#LetsCreate is a call to creators. The developers, data scientists and CTOs working to make the world work better.
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0/ This is a thread about why tracing will gradually replace most logging, at least where distributed or cloud-native architectures are concerned. And we’re going to explore this through the lens of a relational data model.
It’s going to be fun!
Thread: 👇
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0/ Every software org that's tried to scale distributed tracing has probably wrestled with sampling.
And yet the standard approach to sampling is needlessly narrow and limiting! What if we step back and frame things in terms of use cases, queries, and verbosity?
Thread: 👇
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Übermedien exklusiv: Anders als die Moderatoren in der Sendung behaupteten, wurde die Redezeit der Kanzlerkandidaten beim #Triell von ARD und ZDF bis zum Schluss nicht richtig gemessen. uebermedien.de/63659/triell-…
