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Wednesday August 20 2025 Guest Focus: Senior engineer and KIP-405 Tiered Storage architect Satish from Uber, will be joining our host Hugh Evans. Satish was a contributor to KIP 405 which brought tiered storage to Kafka. What we’ll cover: As always we’ll offer a free coffee voucher to all attendees. Get Kafka-Nated!

What happens when a social media obsession turns into one of the most unconventional and impactful careers in tech? In this episode of Uplink, Alexis Bertholf, Global Technical Evangelist at Megaport, explores how she’s making network engineering cool again, and why connectivity is the oxygen that cloud and AI can’t live without.

Learn how to create an SLA report on Uptime.com to track uptime and performance. This guide walks you through configuring the report and selecting the right checks and date range. Get detailed metrics on uptime and response times, helping you meet service goals and client expectations with ease. Scheduled SLA reports in Uptime.com let you automatically send PDF or XLS reports to up to 100 recipients, including both Uptime.com users and external email addresses. You can schedule reports for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly delivery.

Kara reveals the exclusive hoodie created for Ubuntu's 20th anniversary! A must-have collector's item! Want more Ubuntu content and behind-the-scenes looks? Hit that follow button!

TEDx speaker Nate Payne from our IT Leadership Lab livestream.

After a bit of a break, we are back with episode 6 and we are joined by Carter Rabasa, Head of Developer Relations for Langflow at IBM, where we discuss his career, approach to team management, and the evolving tech landscape.

Curious what you can accomplish once you install the Github App?

Led by Sumo Logic experts Andrei and Austin, this session dives into troubleshooting dashboards, silent failure scenarios, and missing collector data—helping your team spot blind spots, catch incidents you never knew you missed, close visibility gaps, and ensure dashboards reflect the full picture for faster resolution.

To kick off Season 3, host Steve Jones is joined by Mike Bowers, Chief Architect at data technology company FairCom. The conversation includes an overview of Mike’s background, the work he does at FairCom, plenty of SQL talk, and advice on getting into the industry.

What is vector search? In this breakdown, learn how vector search leverages machine learning to capture the meaning and context of unstructured data by transforming it into a numeric representation that is stored in a vector database. This video also explains the difference between sparse and dense embeddings, and how vector search differs from semantic search and lexical search.