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Jason "Jay" Smith
@jasonsmith.io
"The Cloud Alchemist" | Serverless | Kubernetes | Cloud Native | App-Eco Specialist @ Google Cloud | Mixed Race |Angel Investor | Traveler | JRPG Fan


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Google is investing $40B into my home state of Texas to build datacenter and improve the cloud and AI for our customers!

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Google invests $40B in Texas for cloud, AI growth
On Friday, Google announced a $40 billion investment in Texas.
www.kxan.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
CoreWeave has created a serverless reinforcement learning offering to further serverless AI and AI Agents!

#serverless #serverlessai

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CoreWeave Launches First Publicly Available Serverless Reinforcement Learning Capability to Build Reliable AI Agents
Serverless RL unites CoreWeave, Weights & Biases, and OpenPipe to deliver the first fully managed RL service for faster, more efficient AI agent training.
www.coreweave.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Jason "Jay" Smith
Adopting AI agents is not a silver bullet, and governance guardrails, including human oversight, will be needed to make a success out of deployments.
No Time To Waste: 8 Ways To Succeed With AI Agents
Adopting AI agents is not a silver bullet, and governance guardrails, including human oversight, will be needed to make a success out of deployments.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
An interesting writeup on Serverless Containers. We don't have to be limited by functions when it comes to serverless runtimes. Containers work just well! Knative, KEDA, Cloud Run, and more!

#serverless #serverlesscontainers

www.opensourceforu.com/2025/08/serv...
Serverless Containers: Exploring Emerging Trends - Open Source For You
Over the years, virtual machines and traditional containers have made way for serverless computing and serverless containers. Here’s a quick look at the major
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August 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
According to The New Stack, AI needs to figure out Inference compute. Inference-as-a-service will inevitably grow over the next few years as more hyperscalers provide this. Serverless is perfect for inference-as-a-service!

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Confronting AI’s Next Big Challenge: Inference Compute
While AI training garners most of the spotlight — and investment — the demands of AI inference are shaping up to be an even bigger challenge. In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Sid Sheth,…
youtu.be
August 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Platform Engineering in 3 Minutes
YouTube video by PulumiTV
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June 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Looking to learn more about DevOps in Kubernetes and Cloud Native Environments ? Join us on June 18, 2025 at 6pm PDT for the Cloud Native San Francisco Community's summer meetup!

#cloudnative #cloudnativecommunity

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Pre-Summer Community Meetup at Alchemist Bar! | CNCF
In-person Event - Meetup hosted by Grafana with speakers from Dagger
community.cncf.io
June 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Reposted by Jason "Jay" Smith
We're excited to welcome @jasonsmith.io as our newest Puluminary! The Puluminary program recognizes community experts and leaders around Pulumi and Infrastructure as Code.

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Puluminaries
The Puluminaries are members of the community who are experts & leaders in the field of programming & infrastructure & give back to the growing community!
www.pulumi.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Who is better at identifying tipsy people in public? Shaboozey or J-Kwon?
January 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Hello BlueSky!
November 13, 2024 at 1:56 AM