Scale By the Bay 2023: Interview with Kerim Satirli.
Recording: Scale By the Bay 2023: Interview with Kerim Satirli.
so my name is kareim Sai I'm a senior developed Advocate at Hashi Corp where I focus on teaching people U best practices and and solid patterns around infrastructure and workload orchestration couple different ways um we're devel tools company we make software that you can use to build your infrastructure provision your infrastructure uh and so one of those approaches or most of those approaches require us to think about testing before we want to roll out a whole network of you know workload orchestration or a security solution we want to make sure it works uh so we have currently in beta our own AI solution that helps you write test photos uh figure out all the test cases not just a happy path that we always think about it's the easy one but also the the hard path like what are the things that you should be testing for that you never think of and that's on a company level personal level um get up co-pilot huge fan just so nice to talk about your code with uh somebody even if that's somebody is a couple of thousand servers somewhere in the cloud and just get a response back that makes you feel that hey maybe you're on the right path maybe not biggest thing I'm working on right now um both company and personal is um I'm a huge fan of putting computers in places where you would think that this doesn't make sense uh I like home automation and I think that's how it started and so couple friends run a company that produces carrier boards where you can put a lot of computer on so we thought you know what let's get a Pelican case let's get some Hardware put those two things together it works for the movies why should it not work for my work uh so we started doing that and it's kind of fun to say you know like hey I have a whole data center here with me in my hand uh TSA doesn't love when you travel with it but it's so much fun and it's it stretches you in terms of thinking how do we think about power consumption how do we think about being closer to the end user about latency and everything and then because we have so much compute at the at the literal edge of what's what should be possible uh what if we put sensors in there so the hardware we have can respond to its environment can see you know temperature is changing the humidity is changing maybe the noise level is changing can we build something interesting there that then reports back to a bigger system and helps us figure things out of course a lot of that requires sifting through the data at the at the edge because especially if you have um very little networking um bandwidth you don't want to be sending back gigs and and terabytes of images you want your camera to be smart enough to figure out hey this car should not be parked here this parcel just arrived and go from there and and just send back the relevant information um it's it's a fun thing to work on Ian Perez uh today talked about open source in space um like most technologists here either an aviation geek or a space geek I feel like uh I fall in both categories huge huge fan of of seeing how organizations like NASA do stuff um we all think about them as you know the group that launches Rockets into space it's 100% accurate but we should be looking towards them as the organization that figured out how to do software engineering right nza has beautiful guidelines that are not fun to implement but they're incredibly useful to implement and so um Ian talking about how they do documentation how they generate documentation they can go through auditing and everything in a way that works for the developers works for the Auditors and still meets all the criteria that need to be met it was a great talk so initially I had never heard of scale by Bay which um is a discredit to myself uh because an event that's been around for 10 years through a pandemic to me is always impressive and especially yesterday seeing Alexi talk about the first 10 years which is a huge thing it's beautiful to see right it's beautiful to see how the community comes together and and figures out what we started with this language and we mainly talked about that language and we you know first year conferences we mainly had speakers from my company um is what he shared these days if you look around um International Ally recognized speakers uh AI everything at scale um learnings and I think the most important part unguarded learnings it's not somebody trying to make it seem like you know hit the fan but actually being truthful and honest like hey look these are hard problems this is what we have to solve and we're 80% there but we're not 100% there that kind of vulnerability to me always makes a speaker more approachable more authentic and it also makes me feel like I'm talking to somebody who is not just talk to talk but actually walk to walk and that's somebody you want to and can learn from so I think come here with an empty mind don't come here tired and and un unready and unwilling to learn and you know let your mind be blown for two days and go home with a couple of new ideas