About DevOps and AI Hub

If you're encountering these challenges:

Struggling to manage cloud inrastructure in a reliable manner.
Seeking ways to make your Kubernetes, workloads, cloud, or SRE more cost-effective or faster.
Overwhelmed by the plethora of tools and frameworks available. If you want to switch over from legacy to modern tech stacks.
If you are uncertain about the next steps for your inrastructure products.
In need of a subject matter expert to assess your requirements and evaluate potential needs.
Experience matters! I steer my projects away from risky engineering practices and towards emerging solutions that use patterns that are designed to work better, faster, cheaper.

What We Offer

Subject Matter Experts: We consist of a community of experts specializing in Devops and AI best practices, ensuring they meet the specific needs of your domain.
Domain-Specific Evaluation Systems: Tailor-made systems to assess the performance and reliability of your inrastructure, ensuring they meet the specific needs of your domain.
Cost management: Enhancing the efficiency of cloud deployments is more important now then ever. We can frequently get 50% cost savings for an organization.
Development Tools and Infrastructure: Custom solutions to streamline your development process, facilitating rapid iterations on sotfware releases.
Product Strategy Guidance: Strategic advice on product development, prioritization, and talent evaluation to bolster your team.
Content and Writing: We also provide documentation on any systems or environments we work on.

Consulting Services Offered

Tier 1: Strategy

Guidance on: - On-prem or cloud performance (cost, quality, speed) - Product strategy - Custom systems - Techniques like "Shift Left," immutable operating systems, zero authentication. (As it is 2024, we can even do better then "Shift left," we can "Start left")

You'll receive a comprehensive plan and regular team consultations to navigate common pitfalls and optimize tool and technique selection.

Tier 2: Comprehensive

Includes all Tier 1 services, plus: - Implementation: Production-ready code and prototypes to fast-track release and development. - Hands-On MLOps Optimization: Direct involvement in fine-tuning and prompt engineering to boost model performance. - Content Production: Creation of technical documents and blog posts to share best practices and insights with your stakeholders. - Team Growth: Personalized training for 2-4 team members to quickly enhance their AI skills. - Extended Consultation: I am available on consulting retainer on an hourly basis. That can include Linux, DevOps, SRE, AI, and other cutting-edge techniques and trends.

Tier 2 services are exclusive to one client at a time to guarantee the highest quality of service.

How to Engage DevOps AI Hub Services

If anything strikes you as particularly interesting and you want to speak with me about an opportunity?

You can schedule a meeting with a representative during any standard Eastern Standard Time business day(https://cal.com/aiconsulting).

Git Repo Highlights:

Currently available at [https://github.com/awdemos/demos], this repo has the following code samples of interest to practitioners of DevOps and AI.

SRE Methodologies: A detailed explanation of the changes the SRE discipline brings to the world of software delivery.
Infrastructure as Code Projects: We always utilize automation in our development work to reduce the amount of time for releases a day.
Blockchain Node Deployment: We can help develop your Blockchain or Web3 integration infrastructure setup.
Grok Large Language Model Analysis: Includes analysis of how the https://github.com/xai-org/grok-1 codebase works.
Kubernetes LLM Installs: This includes examples of installing Mistral LLM and the OpenAI embedding service in Kubernetes via helm charts, showcasing how to run LLMs in Kubernetes.
Python Scripts and Packaging: Some example scripts and best practices I like.

Some of our favorite tools

A curated list of my favorite projects across various domains and technologies.

Infrastructure and Orchestration

Talos - A modern OS for Kubernetes.
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code for any cloud using your favorite languages.
Kargo - Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management tool.
vCluster - Virtual Kubernetes clusters.
Cilium - eBPF-based Networking, Observability, and Security.
Cloudflare - The entire suite of Cloudflare alternatives to AWS services is growing and quite compelling cost performance advantages.

AI and Scripting

GPTScript - Natural language gpt scripting engine.
LangChain - LLM framework.
aider - A smart codegen in the terminal.
ComfyUI - This stable difffusion framework or another like is likely going to change the Internet forever imho.

Containers and Worklows

bincapz - A tool for securing container images by applying binary capabilities with fine-grained control.
Colima - A container runtime for macOS (and Linux) that emphasizes simplicity and performance. It supports Docker and Kubernetes out of the box.
Dive - A tool for exploring each layer in an image, analyzing the contents, and discovering ways to shrink the size of your Docker/OCI image.
Podman - A daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers.
nerdctl - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd.
slim - Minify container images by up to 30x.
Fedora Silverblue - Fedora Silverblue is a variant of the Fedora Workstation with an immutable desktop operating system aimed at good support for container-focused workflows.

CI/CD and Automation

Tekton - A powerful and flexible open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems.
Dagger.io - A programmable deployment system for your applications.

Development Tools and IDEs

Kitty Terminal - A fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator.
Cursor IDE - AI enabled IDE.
Devcontainer - Develop inside a Docker container with Visual Studio Code.
Devpod - Automated, ready-to-code development environments for Gitpod.

Programming Languages and Frameworks

Go - An open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
Bash - GNU Project's shell and command language.
TypeScript - A superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
Rust CLI's - Building command line tools with Rust.
Python - A programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively.

Security and Privacy

Chainguard - Solutions for securing your software supply chain.
GrapheneOS - A privacy and security-focused Android distribution.
NitroPC - A secure and open-source mini PC with open source BIOS.
Learn LLMs and DevSecOps - DevSecOps issues or LLMS.

License

Any software written by me is released under the MIT license. Software released by others may have other licenses, please see their licensing page for more information.