April Edition
Hello!
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What's It Going to Be About
There are a lot of interesting things happening in tech in general right now - even beyond the cloud native ecosystem. I consider myself a fairly curious person and love trying out new things. This newsletter is going to be a way for me to share those learnings with you. It could be in the form of blogs I write, things directly in the newsletter itself or content I find on the internet. I don’t want to restrict this to a particular format every month, but I promise to keep it fun!
Interesting Things I Learned at KubeCon
Last month I was at KubeCon EU in Paris. This was my third time attending a KubeCon in person but was a very unique experience since this time I had the full attendee experience - went to talks, got more time to chat with people, see interesting demos at booths. Some tools I came really excited about and can’t wait to take a deeper look at were:
Dagger for organizing CI/CD pipelines in code and running them in containers
Using Dapr and Testcontainers together to create a dev workflow
Kubiya.ai because AI is all the buzz and their demo seemed cool
Kratix because I had a really interesting conversation with Paula Kennedy on Platform Engineering at the conf
Expect some content related to these in the next edition :)
Read of the Month
Marketing technical products is HARD. I’ve been creating technical content for dev tools companies for quite some time now and last month I wrote a blog post about a framework I developed to help me think about it. If you’re working on a dev tools startup or would just like to learn what goes behind the scenes, check it out here:
Productivity Game Changer
Lastly, I wanted to highlight something that has made organizing my day-to-day work really simple and that’s https://tweek.so. It’s a to-do list with a calendar view. What I love about it is that it’s extremely simple to use. Here’s my workflow:
I add my todos for the week at the start
Review them daily before starting my day
Move things around based on changing priorities
It’s been working wonderfully! I would definitely recommend trying it out.
And that’s it for this first edition! I’m very excited to be working on this and bring you new things I learn. If you found any of this useful, forward this email to a friend maybe?