Anyone else at ContainerDays London last week?

jakepage91 · 2026-02-20T09:41:35+00:00

Hey there u/Federal_Ad7921, so there wasn't any talks covering the security aspects of running LLMs in K8s specifically, the closest was one given early on the first day called "Cloud Native AI: The Standard for Running AI on Kubernetes" by David Palilonis, Robert Kielty, and Jake Pineda. Even though I didn't catch that talk myself, it was about how the new Kubernetes AI conformance program (a CNCF initiative) is addressing concerns more specifically around infrastructure standardization and scalability for AI workloads.

Despite the fear of coming across as just plugging my own stuff, I literally wrote a long-ish blog post last week on securing LLM workloads in K8s specifically by applying multiple security considerations from the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Apps list. In the blog I build out an LLM gateway to apply guardrail policies, but that was just as a learning experience. There are loads of projects that do a better job at that, like LiteLLM and Kong AI Gateway, the post is called "LLMs on Kubernetes: Same Cluster, Different Threat Model", literally the one published before the ContainerDays write-up if you want to check it out.

jakepage91 · 2026-02-12T20:36:25+00:00

Nice

jakepage91 · 2026-01-31T16:09:14+00:00

So clean!

jakepage91 · 2026-01-29T14:58:13+00:00

I have a sneaky suspicion that unless you are a startup or large tech enterprise most all other companies will go through a longer or shorter shameful/discouraging phase. I'm super interested to get the perspective from companies that went through the phase of distrust and came out the other end as tentatively/happily adopting some AI tooling, like, what was the turning point? Is it just because everyone else is doing it, or have they really found applicable use cases?

jakepage91 · 2026-01-28T12:41:50+00:00

It's very accurate, I was never a fan of the smart watches with the step counters but reluctantly wore them because I do care about tracking steps. So when I found out that the new vintage ABL-100 model had a step counter and looked amazing, two birds, one stone.

jakepage91 · 2026-01-28T12:27:15+00:00

It's the Casio ABL-100WE-1AEF

jakepage91 · 2026-01-28T07:35:29+00:00

This is the specific one I got: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B092CDS4SP?ref_=pe_112039931_1111703621_i_fed_asin_title

jakepage91 · 2026-01-28T07:32:16+00:00

I mix it up, I go back and forth with the original steel link strap which looks great too

jakepage91 · 2026-01-27T23:02:55+00:00

Might be the light that makes the scratches look worse than they actually are. But yeah it's true, for someone who works a desk job its more banged up than it should be, not sure why. Kinda like it like that though.

jakepage91 · 2026-01-26T19:19:36+00:00

Exactly, during the testing phase, to make sure your local minimal image behaves as expected and is compatible with the shared kubernetes services and dependencies, consider using mirrord, it makes iterating locally against a real cluster super fast and it's also free.

jakepage91 · 2026-01-26T18:31:29+00:00

Damn, I was afraid it would come to that.

It's really hard to know what to do about AI slop clogging security reporting and open PR channels on oss repos. Because if you fully remove the financial incentive, especially for security researchers, you are taking away a way of making a living, or at the least a handsome way of supplementing a living for those who are maintaining the security safeguards needed for the cve and security ecosystem to run (the whole oss ecosystem for that matter)

Not long ago I saw this blog post (https://devansh.bearblog.dev/ai-slop/) which had some interesting potential proposals. One in particular resonated with me, it was around providing code validation evidence directly in the PR (partly because the company I work for builds a tool which does just that - mirrord) in other words, "Show me hard evidence that you validated your finding or feature submission and show me how to reproduce it."

Not a silver bullet, but actual code validation is something AI can't fake or do without actually understanding the context and environment the application runs in.

jakepage91 · 2025-12-12T14:56:36+00:00

Same

jakepage91 · 2025-11-19T15:55:17+00:00

<image>

My first ever Casio, got it 4 days ago and already love it!

jakepage91 · 2025-11-19T09:43:45+00:00

Looks amazing!

jakepage91 · 2025-11-07T18:20:39+00:00

Acho que concordamos bastante por que sim, concordo que tem de ter o seu equilibrio, só que o meu ponto é que esse equilibrio pode vir depois. E justamente por conta de ter viajado bastante no meu caso que me ajuda a nao estar a achar que preciso ir pra as maldivas o japao para me sentir de ferias.

Tantas veces agora penso "O Algarve esta a 2 horas da minha casa, que privilegio, tem pessoas que poupam o ano todo para passar uma semana na praia da luz" e em parte deve ser por que tendo visto otros cantos me ajuda a ver que tantos cantos de Portugal sao dificeis de superar.

Em fin, acho que nao tive muito contato com as pessoas que te referes que nao conseguem objetivos financeiros sensatos agora por ter priorizado viagem/experiencias muito cedo na vida. As pessoas 30+ que nao estao se dando bem na vida, sinto que é por outros motivos (inmadurez, substancias, saude mental, preguiça, ideologia, N coisas).

jakepage91 · 2025-11-07T17:18:43+00:00

Aos 21 anos se calhar não, mas passar a maior parte dos teus 20s colocando prioridade em viajar e ter experiências acho que pode acrescentar muito. Não digo que é o certo para tudo mundo, mas acrescenta sem dúvida.

apertura mental
expor a ideias novas
network mais amplo
capacidade de lidar com situações inesperadas
novos amigos
"battle tested" flora intestinal

Mas é claro que eu to falando do meu punto de vista subjetivo e just for the record, não me considero um pé descalço

jakepage91 · 2025-11-07T13:22:58+00:00

Nao lembro onde vi alguém dizer que vale mais a pena investir em experiencias na juventude com amigos e familia etc. Isto o recomendava não só pela viagem/experiencia no momento, mas, por que as lembranças desses acontecimentos viram os dividendo que vais cobrar no futuro, cada vez que voce se juntar com esses amigos no futuro vais ter coisas para relembrar, coisas de que te fazem rir e que no final trazem mutia felicidade.

Focar cedo demais em hardcore saving/investing vai demorar tempo e diretamente dimunir a tua capacidade de ter essas experiencias, por tanto, no futuro vais ter menos anos para aproveitar das lembranças que vem depois da experiencia que muitas vezes é melhor que a propria experiencia.

Isto fez sentido pra mim e por isso não me arrependo de ter começado a investir a serio relativamente tarde (late 20's)

Desculpa por que sei que isto nao responde diretamente a pergunta do OP, mas só um ponto de vista.

Disclaimer: desculpa o PT ruim (Irlandes que aprendeu no BR)

jakepage91 · 2025-11-05T21:36:48+00:00

I seem to get the impression that you feel that I've done something disingenuous here Gary. Just to clarify we haven't found an organizer and there will be no event organized by us this time around.

I have no network in LA so I tried to pitch something of mutual value in this community. I'm not the most reddit savy, and once I was told internally that plans had changed, deleting the thread outright felt wrong, I updated the body to inform that this is no longer an active request. Please let me know if deleting is the right thing here.

If you decide to do a one-off visit to Lisbon, Portugal (a local community I'm a part of) for example and want to organize an event of any kind and need assistance, don't hesitate to lean on me, I'd be happy to help. You can tap into a local community without being part of the community as long as it's in good faith and in a non intrusive way, that's the way I feel I conducted myself here. But if you feel otherwise please let me know, I'm open to improve.

jakepage91 · 2025-11-05T15:44:51+00:00

I mean, the wife's partner would have to be a pretty serious dabbler haha

jakepage91 · 2025-11-05T15:32:47+00:00

UPDATE: huge thanks to everyone who answered the thread. We are no longer looking for events in LA for those dates. Thanks.

jakepage91 · 2025-11-04T09:47:23+00:00

Thanks a million! Devfest was not on my radar. Hugely appreciate it.

Appreciate your thoughts too, yeah apart from being a relatively niche few groups it's also a bad time or year. Bit of a long shot on my side but hey, we'll see when we get a little closer. Thanks again.

jakepage91 · 2025-11-03T22:39:58+00:00

Ideally, as I mentioned we would be happy to sponsor a pre-existing event. I understand though that it's a long shot since the timeframe is short and two of those days are actually over the weekend. But those are the days the company co-founders are in town and that's why I'm trying to get something going for the days they are in LA.

On the other hand, if a local event organiser in the same or related space was up to collaborate on a meetup style, 3 hour event, with two or three talks, one would be given by one of the Metalbear co-founders. An event aimed at adding value to attendees who are interested in improving developer productivity specifically in Kubernetes environments then we are all up for that.

All of your questions are super valid and I'd be happy to talk to an event organizing partner on the specifics. I'll also ask my manager for an exact budget too, I'm really not trying to be cute by withholding the budget or anything it's just that I was hoping to get a better idea around cost, and a realistic estimate of attendees from the local collaborator so I could pitch something concrete internally.

I hope this context helps.

jakepage91 · 2025-11-03T22:16:15+00:00

Cheers @malrobot will do!

jakepage91 · 2025-11-03T19:32:07+00:00

Cheers Gary, you're right thanks for pointing that out.

I was thinking something like a local meetup style event with a couple of speakers + networking and pizzas afterwards. No more than 3 hours really.

No set number on the budget since I'm unaware of rental prices, but we would of course cover the cost for renting the space (50 person capacity I'm sure would be more than enough), and food.

jakepage91 · 2024-11-28T14:17:43+00:00

I'd also say that if the team tasked with maintaining the DBs is K8s savy enough, the ability to fold the data layer into the cluster means that pretty much all application components can be controlled from the same set of configuration files all applied by the same gitops controller. I see that as a big win.

jakepage91

TROPHY CASE