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Guy Currier
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Technologist and technology market expert. Very proud dad and husband who also loves movies, music, language, science.
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So this is really good. In a @traefik.io presentation at the #KubeCon Tech Field Day Exclusive they say that an(y) #AI interface is an API at its root and must be (a) treated as an API but ALSO (b) managed as an API _including in the prompt._ AI application-layer routing!

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A slide that was presented by Traefik Labs with a detailed diagram and three kinds of API routing shown on it: A conventional API gateway at the bottom with an MCP and then an AI gateway layered above it
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Keynote at #KubeCon just started. It’s good for a community to congratulate its achievements and look ahead optimistically to what’s next. If anything else pops I will post it here or in LinkedIn

#cTENcf
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Now on stage at the Day 2 NetApp INSIGHT keynote: Jenni Flinders, SVP of the company’s worldwide partner organization, with more sparkly stats! 1,400 partners are here at the show. 96 can help you with AI, 187 with cloud transformation, and more and more
Jenni Flinders of NetApp shown on stage with statistics about how many partners are at NetApp INSIGHT this year
October 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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NetApp’s Gagan Gulani: Our data security strategy emphasizes autonomous ransomware protection, security by design, compliance with regulations, governance, data lineage, anonymization, and storage as a resilient last defense. We focus on security by design”

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Gugan Gulani, GM of NetApp’s Data Services product line, is shown in close-up on the big screen at the Day 2 NetApp INSIGHT keynote
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Day 2 keynote at #NetAppInsight begins with César Cernuda, president of NetApp. “Our goal is to unleash genius.… AI is only as good as the data that fuels it”

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César Cernuda of NetApp is shown on the keynote stage
October 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Here’s a neat way to tease a reveal! New NetApp offer coming up soon, from Syam Nair, the company’s new chief product officer

#NetAppInsight #TFDx @techfieldday.com
NetApp chief product officer is shown on the big screen at the NetApp INSIGHT event keynote, next to a slide titled NETAPP DATA PLATFORM with a descriptive illustration of the platform. Part of the illustration is blurred, where a new NetApp offer will later be revealed
October 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Starting off NetApp INSIGHT today at the morning keynote, CEO George Kurian calls this “the era of data-enabled intelligence” and says the data challenge is that “80% of the time on an AI project is spent wrangling data”

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October 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Gotta admit that this is one of the better-designed pins I’ve seen. I might wear it!

At NetApp INSIGHT in Vegas this week, thanks to NetApp and @techfieldday.com. Keynotes about to start, I’ll let you know whatever interesting comes up

#NetAppInsight #TFDx
October 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I’m at @techfieldday.com’s AI Infrastructure Field Day … @broadcom.bsky.social presenting. In two slides, how they do data center–to-DC(-to-DC) networking for large-scale applications and services. Pretty impressive
A product marketer at Broadcom shows a slide with the bandwidth their new chips can handle; 3.2 terabits per port × 36,000 ports ganged together. That’s a lot. Then the same product marketer shows that those 32,000 × 3.2-terabyte collections of switches (that all look like one switch, by the way) can interconnect too for a half million 800Gbps connections, or a million 400Gbps connections. Again: that is a lot.
September 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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PopUp Mainframe is a way to emulate z/OS application runtimes outside of the production mainframes themselves. Which sounds simple enough. But what starts off looking like a useful emulator, before you know it is implementing CI/​CD for the mainframe #TFDx #SHARECleveland2025
Gary Thornhill of PopUp Mainframe presenting a demonstration of the product at Tech Field Day Exclusive at SHARE Cleveland 2025
August 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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It makes sense to me that APM on mainframes may have languished, if for different reasons. @broadcom.bsky.social’s Petr Klomfar says that because of the commoditization of compute, “We have let our guard down” in mainframe APM. On standard infrastructure I think it’s for much different reasons
August 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The stained glass
Interior of the cathedral showing three of the four huge, vertical stained glass wall corners
June 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Catedral Metropolitana de São Sebastião

@brutalismbot.com

The blue hue is a protective screen of some kind. Maybe they’re working on the stained glass
June 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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I like this place
June 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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And now this voice message an hour later. COME ON!
An iPhone alert showing that a voice mail was left. The start of it reads: “Hey Brian here I run a genius AI I don’t wanna see if you got the email I sent you a quick question would you be interested in learning how you identify the real people and companies visiting”
May 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Ends with the obligatory crowd selfie! 😀
May 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Qlikbait! (Apologies.) Love Katie Ledecky as a consistent and hard-working athlete with both great success and an unassuming, welcoming manner. Yay! On stage at #QlikConnect Day 2
May 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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There it is!

#QlikConnect
Qlik chief strategy officer Jeff Fisher is shown on stage at the opening-day keynote of the company’s annual QlikConnect conference, next to a big on-screen graphic that simply reads “A New Agentic Experience”
May 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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So I’m at #QlikConnect today and tomorrow as part of @techfieldday.com’s coverage, sponsored by the conference.

Qlik is, in a lot of ways, a pretty close community that has been doing analytics and #AI for a very, very long time; with a focus on quality and service to data scientists
May 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Interesting. Adding closed-loop liquid cooling increases by 100–150W the operating range of a 1U server (where there’s no room for massive heat sinks). Funly, it is still called “air cooling” because it’s still fans doing the cooling—the liquid transfers the heat to them

#TFDx #HPEProLiant
One of HPE’s mechanical engineers shows a direct liquid cooling (NOT closed-loop) device at the company’s Tech Field Day Exclusive event on April 8th, 2025
April 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Yes you CAN hug a server

#TFDx #HPEProLiant
Me with a goofy grin on my face hugging and carrying a small-sized rack server with a look of glee on my face
April 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Jesus H. Christ, Verizon is a leaky damn drive with my personal data. I did have a service call with them recently
Phishing text message purporting to be from a Verizon customer service representative identifying himself as David and saying he spoke with me recently
February 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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A software box with a very large VNC logo on it, lying under the Christmas tree with a ribbon around it
December 25, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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As a lifelong lover and critic of #bagels, have to check out Courage Bagels
A few kids and adults posing together in front of a restaurant whose canopy reads “Courage Bagels”
November 24, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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It’s a sign
A close-up screen shot snippet of the Strands game from the New York Times showing the acronym WASM selected as if it were a word
November 18, 2024 at 11:03 AM