ahmet alp balkan
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ahmet alp balkan
@ahmetb
- Officially in the "find out" phase.
- With a heavy heart, I decided to decline the offer to stay at Twitter and chose to be on the right side of history. It’s been a privilege working with fellow engineers on the infrastructure powering this marvelous platform. 🫡 Until next time. #OneTeam #WeWereTwitter
- [CHIRPBIRDICON] I’m joining the Twitter Compute Engineering team to help build the next generation of the infrastructure stack and the internal compute platform here! 🥳 Excited about the new chapter in my career and the set of challenges bringing Kubernetes to Twitter.
- This guy heated up his RAM with a heat gun to debug a @golang runtime bug. marcan.st/2017/12/debugg… I hereby nominate him to most persistent Gopher of the year award.
- 👟Google launches “Cloud Run”. It’s the serverless containers-as-a-service you’ve been waiting for. With a “single command“, you will go from a container image to: 🚀 a fully-managed autoscaling app 🌍 running on a public domain name 🔐 with a Let's Encrypt TLS certificate.
- I’ve survived the Twitter layoffs. However, many teammates experienced in Kubernetes are now looking for a new job. 😔 If you're hiring k8s SWE/DevOps, please reply with a job posting link or contact info so they can reach out to you. 👇🏼
- Advice to young engineers: Read a lot of code. Several more times than you write. Ideally not the code internal to company. Go find where the state of the art is, study it. Having worked in the docker codebase early in my career gave me a lot of skill boost long-term.
- A year ago, I was very happy to land the dream job at @Twitter. Now, I'm back at searching for my next gig. If you're hiring a staff software engineer to work on compute infrastructure challenges at large-scale with Kubernetes, hit me up on DM/LinkedIn.
- I'm announcing a new fun kubectl subcommand: 🌲 kubectl tree It lets you explore Kubernetes object ownerships in a visual tree view. Get it today: github.com/ahmetb/kubectl…
- Exciting news! I've joined @LinkedIn Compute Infrastructure team this week as a Sr. Staff Engineer. I’m thrilled to continue working on Kubernetes here. 🎉
- This book is a gold mine! All these years I thought it was a Big Data book and didn’t read it. I am getting started but go grab yours.
- Past few weeks have been a mix of Stanford prison experiment, Squid Game, Prisoner’s Dilemma and Hunger Games. It will be studied in social psychology classes and business schools for years to come.
