What making money looks like in 2026 (via Linas Beliūnas)

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Hi folks! 👋🏻

One week until OSA Con (Nov 2)! It’s a free, anti-hype day of open source analytics + AI, in San Francisco and livestreamed online. Expect practical conversations about open source analytics, data infrastructure, and AI without the usual hype. We have talks from Google, IBM, Databricks, Grafana Labs and more!

Some of the sponsors are hiring - come join to chat with them!

📍 Nov 2 · SF + online · FREE → luma.com/eis7567t?…

Would be great to see some of this community there! 🙌

Hi everyone,

We've been building TestRadius, a tool that uses Agentic AI to automate QA, turning natural language flows into autonomous UI and API tests.

We're still early and would really appreciate feedback from engineers here if you get a chance to try it out.

Early access is free: testradius.dev/login?mode=signup

Any thoughts, good or bad, would mean a lot!

Hey everyone, I’m looking for beta users for Latchkey, a tool for running GitHub Actions that also fixes failing builds automatically. It’s completely free, we just want feedback to improve the platform. DM me if you’re interested. latchkey.dev

Hi Folks, I'm new here. I work at Splunk on the OTel team. I was hoping to get some feedback on a new open source project we just launched called Observability Studio (ObStudio), a local OpenTelemetry workspace that helps developers audit, add, and verify instrumentation. The goal is to make OTel simpler to implement and help more teams adopt it.

Here's a link to the repo and a getting started guide. If you play around with it, I'd love your feedback. Where does implementation still feel hardest? What would make ObStudio more useful in your workflow? If you don't have an observability backend you can mess around in, we have a very generous free edition of our observability platform here. Thanks! Have a great weekend!

Random question on Friday so I bet this is the right place.

You need to build CICD pipeline to compile, test, dockerize, sign and push to storage from scratch, no questions asked. It has to be generic to support multiple coding langs and their ecosystems in a single monorepo.
Approach is to solve it like a Software Engineer - you want to run CICID, compile, test and change locally, like any SWE would do, and then run it on GH Actions, GitLab or whatever, treating the SVC platform as a shim or mere adapter to your CICD at best.

What would you do? Am I insane nothing like it exists?

Hey SweetOps folks! 👋 This one felt appropriate to drop here:

• Felicitas Pojtinger (Loophole Labs) — Legacy-Free, Zero-Maintenance RISC-V Kubernetes Clusters With Immutable Linux and ClickHouse®
It’s part of the Anti-Hype Conference for Open Source Analytics and AI happening Nov 2 in SF + online.

👉️ luma.com/eis7567t?…
If “RISC-V + Kubernetes + immutable Linux” got your attention, you should definitely join! 😄

Hey guys, random question.

For people working with SaaS companies, are you seeing much demand for continuous external pentesting these days?

Not just automated scanning, but someone continuously testing the external attack surface and only reporting findings they can actually prove/exploit.

Been exploring this space recently and curious if companies actually want this, or if most are still happy with annual pentests.

not sure if it is a personal feeling or I indulged in Japanese learning, recently the interesting projects are less, we may consider to use a different license model to encourage innovations, instead of open source license, how about open idea license 🙂

Graftcode lets you call methods across languages and runtimes as if they were local—without APIs, SDKs, or integration-layer code.
🔗 https://graftcode.com/

The HuggingFace security.txt is pretty funny: https://huggingface.co/security.txt

this is pretty cool: https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat

https://tailscale.com/tailcat#what-are-the-tailcat-data-and-control-planes

Hey everyone! Im an indie developer trying so hard to promote my app and I just wanna share a reel for my personal app Before leaving and I would appreciate likes, comments and shares to get reach to get more feedback from users🙏🏽
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DclJt14xdNZ/?igsi=eGIycnhvdTR4NTMz

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns/releases/tag/v0.22.0

Hi. Just joined this slack.

getting your aws/azure/gcp spend into your own database sounds easy, just export it and load it. the annoying part is the cloud keeps rewriting the current month's numbers, so if you're not careful you end up double-counting and your totals don't match the actual bill.

decent writeup on doing it without that mess. worth a read if you're building your own cost reporting.

dev.to/…/cloud-cost-api-pulling-reconciled-aws-azure-and-gcp-spend-into-your-own-warehouse-csv-json…

I thought jellyfish was a new stuxnet until I realized it was Mother Nature.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/jellyfish-hit-french-nuclear-plant-shuts-down-three-reactors-2026-08-11/

Hi guys, I have a question. I'm running a solo consulting company registered in the UK, and I operate on B2B basis. Has anyone like me been able to land projects with US based companies remotely maybe? As per my research and resources I checked so far, I couldn't find any barriers that companies would face in the US to use my consulting services; but if am wrong please correct me. Thank you

Note: I'm not talking about government related projects.

For people who query S3 buckets with very large numbers of objects, github.com/varveio/swath looks interesting.

I haven't tested it (my needs are simple), and the author used AI/LLM code generation, but I spot-checked two details that give me confidence. The documentation recommends dynamically listing big buckets as a last resort and mentions AWS-idiomatic alternatives. More importantly, this is one of the few pieces of software I've seen that bothers to set the AWS SDK retry mode, a zero-effort way to increase reliability whenever we use an AWS SDK. (See the 2026-05-20 AWS Developer Tools Blog post, "Announcing updated retry behavior for AWS SDKs and Tools".)

I like the way the author used AI not just to generate code but also to explore how other parallel S3 bucket listing tools work. A readily apparent drawback of code generation is vastly increased complexity; there are too many files and too many lines to read. Everything rests on whether comprehensive distributed systems testing is possible and whether the tests have caught potential race conditions.

Hi all,

Quick question, does anyone here run a dev agency or have an old codebase (a shelved project, a shut-down startup, internal tools nobody uses anymore)? Our agency is looking to license such code bases. Please DM me only if this is relevant to you. Thanks!

Is your company's data center consumption contributing to carbon emissions? Europe and other regions have experienced several extreme heatwaves due to climate change and other factors. Data centers have been also an ongoing discussion due to their environmental impact.

Wanna get an insight on your company's emissions anonymously? Try my calculator:

mousa-cloud.com/environment-cloud-calculator.html

anyone knows any opportunities from Japanese companies? I am learning Japanese and want to keep the link to Japan after the recent trip 🙂

here's something silly that I 100% vibecoded and the ridiculous LinkedIn post to go with it
linkedin.com/posts/joe--perez_github-jperez3followback-a-tool-to-help-share…

https://zachholman.com/posts/cold-email

Hello again! Back this week with another post about being unemployed 😂 ordisi.us/posts/2026_5_unemployment

Hey everyone! 👋

Quick follow-up on FineScale (finescale.ai) for anyone who missed the last post!
We’ve recently added new AI-driven recommendation capabilities to help teams automatically right-size Kubernetes workloads and eliminate over-provisioning across EKS, AKS, GKE, and self-hosted clusters.

If K8s cost optimization or multi-tenant visibility is on your roadmap this quarter, check out finescale.ai.
Would love any feedback or thoughts from the community—feel free to drop a line below or DM me directly! 🚀

Hello Friends! Sharing some thoughts on how I kept my job as long as I did and how it may help you in your current situation 🙏🏽 ordisi.us/posts/2026_4_layoffs

Are you a leader? You'll find this useful on how to approach security related budgeting problem.
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/ale-budget

Hey all! We just launched Kestrel Workflows and would love to get feedback from the community.

Kestrel is an AI automation layer for platform engineering teams. It turns natural-language prompts into deterministic workflows that automate incident response, infra provisioning, CI/CD, security, and developer requests.

It supports 30+ integrations across infrastructure, PaaS, AI compute, observability, on-call, networking, databases, CI/CD, and IaC, plus custom HTTP APIs and webhooks for anything else.

It's also developer-first with a CLI, Python SDK, and MCP server so you and your coding agents can build and manage workflows from the terminal or in code.

Would appreciate any feedback/support on our launch posts: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7483212042355712000 / ycombinator.com/launches/R4u-kestrel-ai-agents-for-platform-engineering

You can also try it out with up to $1,000 in usage credits at usekestrel.ai !

Hey all,

This might be a great article for infrastructure teams managing LLM costs at scale. The provider evaluation section is quite useful: same model, different providers, meaningfully different cache hit rates and eval scores.
ito.ai/blog/measuring-100b-tokens-week-open-weight-models

Classic path to prod

Might be interesting article for those in the EU. As you know, EU passed recently a controversial amendment to what's popularly known as "EU Chat Control".

blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/eu-chat-control

Hello, Does anyone here work in the DevOps domain at PayPal, US?
I am looking for a connection there, for help with a job req.

Hey everyone, Chi here 👋

Quick update on the AI Infra Summit 2026 (Sept 15–17, Santa Clara Convention Center) — a lot has changed since I last posted and wanted to flag it for anyone who missed it.

tl;dr: free tickets still available for engineers and technical leaders at qualifying enterprises and hyperscalers, worth $3,297, no catch.

What's dropped since last time:

🔷 Five Diamond Sponsors now confirmed - AWS, Intel, Qualcomm, Ambarella, and Oracle

🎤 Speaker additions worth knowing about:

• Jeff Dean — Chief Scientist & Technical Lead, Gemini (Google DeepMind)
• Peter DeSantis — SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon & Quantum Computing (Amazon)
• Lip-Bu Tan — CEO (Intel)
• Ian Buck — VP, Hyperscale & HPC Computing (NVIDIA)
• Santosh Janardhan — VP, Infrastructure (Meta)
• Daniela Rus — Director, CSAIL (MIT)
• Jonathan Hurst — Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer (Agility Robotics)
• 400 total across 8 stages
🆕 Also new this year is a dedicated Physical AI track covering humanoid robotics, autonomous systems and deployment. It's the first time we've done this at the summit.

We're 10 weeks out and spots are filling fast, so if you've been sitting on this, now's the time.

Apply: reg.kisacoresearch.com/submissions/696a168d8f1a0de3e1c774d9/69735576d4072b89834401d9

Full agenda: ai-infra-summit.com/2026agenda

DM me or drop a comment if you have any questions, I'm happy to help 🙌