JJ Asghar
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- Commit Your Code2 editions2024–2025
- DevOpsDays Seattle2 editions2016–2021
all 16 in the filters
on a stage with
- Adarsh Shahonce
- Alba Rivasonce
- Alberto Rodriguez-Natalonce
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who talks about the same things
- Ram Iyengar34 talks
- Jeffrey Borek16 talks
- Max Korbacher28 talks
- Katherine Druckman22 talks
- Kunal Kushwaha22 talks
- Katie Gamanji35 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source AI and Granite | Commit Your Code 2025 | 2025-09-25 |
Granite positions itself as an auditable open model family with Granite time series and vision/guard rails and a promise that IBM will defend attribution in… | ||
| A community based open source LLM and what it can do for your business | Devworld Conference 2025 | 2025-02-27 |
Claim: InstructLab is an opinionated fine‑tuning pipeline that uses small YAML Q&A stanzas to generate thousands of synthetic examples and teach a base model… | ||
| Migrating a monolith to Cloud-Native and the stumbling blocks that you don’t know about | Commit Your Code 2024 | 2024-12-05 |
Company migrates by containerizing apps and then discovers costs rise and complexity explodes: containers land on Kubernetes/OpenShift/Nomad but the Java… | ||
| KEYNOTE: Taking a step back and leveraging GitOps to wrangle your clusters and projects | Python Web Conf 2023 | 2023-03-13 |
Argues GitOps is the de facto way to manage multiple Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters, with Git as auditable source of truth and a poll-based many-to-one model… | ||
| Migrating a monolith to Cloud-Native and the stumbling blocks | SREday London 2022 | 2022-09-15 |
AsgarLabs replatforms by stuffing WAR/EARs into an Open Liberty container and running it on OpenShift, then treats pods like VMs so a batch job pins a single… | ||
| We accidentally created a Serverless Application | stackconf 2022 | 2022-07-19 |
A workshop automation pipeline that spins up production IBM Cloud Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters using a GitHub issue queue, cloud functions, Code Engine and a… | ||
| IGNITE: Kubernetes/OpenShift (in way too short of time) | stackconf 2022 | 2022-07-19 |
Kubernetes is presented as an orchestrator for containers while OpenShift is an opinionated enterprise distribution you can run production on, with Kubernetes… | ||
| Premiere | Conf42 Cloud Native 2022 | 2022-04-28 |
A rapid lineup of concrete claims and demos: iterative canary releases with feature toggles that cut rollback time and raise SLOs, a live Argo CD demo… | ||
| Leveraging GitOps to wrangle your clusters and projects | Conf42 Cloud Native 2022 | 2022-04-28 |
Demonstrates a concrete GitOps workflow using Argo CD installed with two kubectl commands, showing a live install on OpenShift, creating an app that auto-syncs… | ||
| Migrating a monolith to Cloud-Native (and the stumbling blocks) | Conf42 Site Reliability Engineering 2021 | 2021-09-30 |
Claim: containerizing a monolith alone does not cut costs; AsgharLabs wraps a war file shoved into a container and sees OpEx rises after containerization… | ||
| We accidentally created a Cloud on our IBM Cloud | stackconf online 2021 | 2021-06-15 |
Starts as a blunt automation story: a bash for loop that shots off dozens of IBM Cloud API requests with a sleep random 30 to avoid outages and scales to 30–70… | ||
| Migrating a monolith to Cloud-Native and the stumbling blocks that you don’t know about. | DevOpsDays Poznań 2021 | 2021-05-24 |
Claim: simply stuffing a war file in a container and pushing to Kubernetes is not cloud‑native — it raises OPEX and leaves you not using schedulers, ingress… | ||
| Lessons Learned from Cultivating Open Source Projects and Communities | DevOpsDays Seattle 2021 | 2021-05-04 |
Starts with one hard claim: scope tightly or the project becomes the Big Tent that drifts and dies. Distinguishes two models, personally-backed (you are single… | ||
| Deploying a Simple Python App to IBM Cloud Code Engine | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 | 2021-05-04 |
Walks through containerizing a tiny Python app, pushing the image to a registry, and deploying it on IBM Cloud Code Engine using ibmcloud CLI and the Code… | ||
| Open Source Panel "Solving for the Container and Cloud " | {Unscripted} 2020 | 2020-10-21 |
Discussion shows how open source actually solves container and cloud friction by naming the tools and practices: Quarkus as a new Java runtime, Ortelius for… | ||
| Lessons Learned from Cultivating Open Source Projects and Communities | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019 | 2019-06-24 |
Describes concrete practices: use of Gerrit then GitHub, corporate-backed projects (IBM IKS) vs personal scoping, and the danger of OpenStack’s big tent… | ||
| Lessons Learned from Cultivating Open Source Projects and Communities | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019 | 2019-06-24 |
Describes concrete practices for growing projects: use GitHub for a social center but note Gerrit worked well in OpenStack; ship a vagrant file so newcomers… | ||
| Everything you need to know about Kubernetes in 5 Minutes | DevOpsDays Vancouver 2019 | 2019-04-10 |
Claims core Kubernetes concepts in rapid form and shows concrete examples: containers → pods, a deployment with 2 replicas for rolling updates, nodes as… | ||
| VMware and Chef, What's the Ecosystem Like, Where Does Everything Fit? | ChefConf 2018 | 2018-05-22 |
Claims concrete integrations and migrations: Chef provides multiple plugins that actually provision and configure vCenter, vRA and… | ||
| Being An Introvert At A Conference Is Not As Hellish... | DevOpsDays Seattle 2016 | 2016-05-12 |
Describes concrete tactics learned over two years that aim to make big conferences manageable: bring a portable card game like Exploding Kittens to start… | ||
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