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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪
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Principal Field Solutions Architect @ Pure Storage

Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Docker Captain

I help organise EightKB and Data Céilí

He/Him
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Docker Hardened Images are now free!

FROM dhi‌.io‌/node:24

From this moment on, you can use the near-zero-CVE Docker images as your base images, for free!

Learn more here:
Docker Hardened Images are Free
Docker introduced Hardened Images in 2025 as a secure-by-default base image line, designed to keep...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
December 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We're back! Join us for summer in Dublin!
December 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Is it bad form to start off a conference talk with...

"I hate this technology, I hate it with the fire of a thousand suns"

Asking for, err, a friend
December 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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#MicrosoftFabric & #PowerBI Wales user group schedule set for 2026. We run a monthly online session. Happy to accommodate shorter talks or 50+50 if you want to trial ahead of bits!

Thanks to @sessionize.com for supporting user groups with free services 👌

sessionize.com/fabricpowerb...
December 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Following on from my previous post...this next one dives into Performance Tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server

dbafromthecold.com/2025/12/11/p...

#sqlserver #kubernetes #sqlblog #containers
December 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Still performance testing SQL Server in KubeVirt vs a StatefulSet in Kubernetes

# KubeVirt
TEST RESULT : System achieved 46563 NOPM from 108184 SQL Server TPM
# StatefulSet
TEST RESULT : System achieved 47200 NOPM from 109554 SQL Server TPM

Pretty much there!
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
New blog post...A first look at SQL Server running in KubeVirt

dbafromthecold.com/2025/12/02/r...

#sqlserver #kubernetes #containers #sql2025 #vmware
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Phew, demos!

Really enjoyed presenting my Chaos Engineering session at Data Saturday Madrid

Thank you to all who attended, hope it was useful!
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sitting in my hotel room that is literally shaking due to an underground train, trying to work out how to get where I need to go

Google maps says to get a bus

DON'T TELL ME THERE'S NO TRAIN. I CAN FEEL THE TRAIN. HOW DO I GET TO THE TRAIN
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Woo, heading out and over to speak at Data Saturday Madrid!

Haven't been to Madrid for years, really looking forward to the event!
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Call for speakers: Groningen Data Platform Meetup Lighting Talks! - https://us7.campaign-archive.com/?u=b8db1e2ab2a0ee1aa69c8bb27&id=e13d53e282
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Off and out to Ignite!

Will be at either the Microsoft Community Hub or the Pure Storage booth if you want to come and say hi!
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
This hit a little close to home for me :-)
I have a technique I call incompetence-based-mutation-testing.

Start making some changes. Bork everything, comment out half the existing code to just make stuff compile. Run tests. Watch tests pass.

Stop refactoring, go have a stern word with the tests.
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The latest Data Exposed episode is out! I jumped on to talk about cloning databases to Kubernetes!

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Data Exposed - YouTube
Data Exposed is all about data; relational and non-relational, on-premises and in the cloud, big and small. Join Anna Hoffman, Data & Applied Scientist and h...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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If you missed our talked, We have a post on #kubernetes blog discussing the plans to archive Ingress-nginx
- Project is getting archived in March 2026
- No dependency updates, bug fixes, releases
- Images available, Helm charts
- Not gonna break deployments
www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Ahhhhh this is going to be a rough 70 minutes

#WALvARG
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Yesterday was a fantastic day of rugby

Today won't be 😅
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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The image that launched a thousand rugby memes
November 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I've seen a few mad setups in my IT career (admittedly mostly built by myself) but SQL Server on Windows in KubeVirt is right up there
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Someone made a killing on illuminous yellow boots

#IREvNZL
November 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Super harsh.

#IREvNZL
November 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Not a bad evening here
October 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Oh this is gonna be good
September 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM