William Collins

I'm officially launching @TheCloudGambit Podcast. Check out this inaugural episode with @horovits, Principal Developer Advocate at @logzio, Podcaster, and @CloudNativeFdn Ambassador. #opensource #podcasts #CloudNative thecloudgambit.com/2236725/135322…

🏆 We won the Hackathon for MCP & AI Agents 2026! The @Itential Hackathon Team is incredibly proud to share that our kagent_vision project took home first place in the MCP & AI Agents Starter Track at MCP_HACK//26. Knowing that our submission was reviewed by a panel like Kelsey Hightower, Chris Aniszczyk (CTO, CNCF), Alan Blount (Google ADK), Nathan Taber (NVIDIA DGX Cloud), Carlos Santana (AWS), Keith Mattix II (Microsoft), my good friend @SebbyCorp , Lin Sun, Christian Posta, Dmytro Rashko, and Michael Levan — and being recognized by them — is humbling in the best way. This is a panel that has, quite literally, written the books on cloud-native and agentic AI. What made this win special was the how: this wasn't a one-person sprint. The Itential Hackathon Team collaborated tightly across engineering, product, and design to get kagent_vision across the line — late-night debugging sessions, whiteboard architecture battles, and the kind of "let's just try it" energy that only the best teams have. Every commit had a fingerprint on it. 🔓 And the best part — kagent_vision is fully open source. It's a kagent Agent with Vision: capture photos, transform them with Nano Banana, animate them with Veo3 — and yes, it supports ASL. You can clone it, run it, break it, extend it. The whole point of MCP is composability, and we want builders to take this and run with it. 👉 Repo: lnkd.in/dtD46m9F 👉 Hackathon: aihackathon.dev Huge thanks to solo.io and the entire MCP_HACK//26 organizing crew for putting on a world-class event, and to the global MCP community for being one of the most exciting places to build right now. And a huge thanks to Jessica Newland @AutomateIP Ankit Bhansali @MacroEngineered @KristenHRachels Holly Holcomb Jesse Ford Peter Sprygada for being part of the hackathon team ! As a team we have agreed to donate 100% of the $1000 prize to the Atlanta Humane Society. Ultimately the Vision Agent prize will go to helping the dogs and cats of Atlanta. For this, I am even more proud. #MCP #AIAgents #OpenSource #Hackathon #Itential #CloudNative #AgenticAI #kagent lnkd.in/d7cM8eGS

@virtualized6ix Might be missing a few 😂

🤔🐝 So you wanna bee a Cloud Native Network Engineer?🤔🐝 You only need to know: - BGP and routing - Load-Balancing - IPAM - Multicast - IPv6 - Ingress/Egress - Flows and network telemetry - VXLAN - VPCs - MTUs and MSS - mTLS and IPsec - HTTP methods - Kubernetes Networking - Network Policy - YAML Let me point you in the right direction… Head over here and lab away!!! 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽 #cloud-network-engineer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">isovalent.com/learning-track…

Alkira built the network for multi-cloud. Now it becomes the network for the AI era. Amir and Atif Khan helped define SD-WAN at Viptela, acquired by Cisco in 2017. At @alkiranet, they saw the same problem one layer up: enterprises moving across clouds without a modern network to connect it all. We co-led the Series A when Alkira was just that idea. What they built was a platform that unifies the multi-cloud network and can be deployed in under an hour. Today, @alkiranet agreed to be acquired by @lumentechco to provide the network foundation for the AI era. As AI workloads move from experiment to core infrastructure, the network becomes the critical path. Congratulations to Amir, Atif, and the entire @alkiranet team. kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/a…

Jensen is one the smartest and most far seeing folks the world. "If an AI scientist warns people that AI is going to permeate across radiology and radiologists are going to get wiped out, it might seem helpful but it's hurtful. If we convince everybody not to be radiologists and we now need radiologists, that actually is hurtful to society. "It is hurtful to convince all the young college graduates not to study software engineering because we are going to need more software engineers than ever. That's hurtful." "Scaring people with nonsensical things, which are not going to happen, that this is an existential threat, there's a 20% chance that is is existential, that's ridiculous. "That it's going to wipe out 50% of college level jobs. "That is it going to completely destroy democracy. "These kinds of comments are not helpful. They are made by...CEOS. And you become a CEO, maybe you adopt a God complex and somehow you know everything." Brutal. And right.

🏹 #NetworkEngineer war story! #cisco #sdwan #outage #hospital #networkops #tech

Ghostty is leaving GitHub. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. I've visited GitHub almost every single day for over 18 years. It's never been a question for me where I'd put my projects: always GitHub. I'm super sad to say this, but its time to go. mitchellh.com/writing/ghostt…

@github I feel like service degradation is a weekly occurrence these days. I feel like this coincides with the rapid / unprecedented demand on infra to power AI-flavored things ~late 2025 -> 2026. Can we bring back regular 'ol reliable #GitHub that just works most of the time? #Infrastructure #AI #Help

Most MCP servers are an API spec with a wrapper + auto-generated tools pointed at an agent without context to use them well. @MacroEngineered joined the Platform Engineering Podcast to discuss what responsible AI adoption looks like across industries 👉 bit.ly/4tDRY1u

Solid observation + advice 🔥

@ButtFreemanEsq @RyanHanaWWP I see this a lot from Wings fans as well and can't wrap my head around it. The one area that isn't up for debate is hard numbers. He produces and makes the players around him better 🤷‍♂️

@RyanHanaWWP Meanwhile Wings fans want Kane (2nd on team in 5v5 points per 60/game, 2nd best on-ice analytics 5v5 among forwards, led team in 5v5 goals last 36 games) either off the team or demoted to bottom 6 and used as a power play specialist. Hm.

Yzerman, when asked what needs to change for the Red Wings to make the playoffs: "Most obviously, we need better players. It's incumbent on me and my staff to improve this team." Specifically noted needing to improve scoring 5v5. #LGRW

@HankYeomans Agreed 💯

Network Engineering Anti-AI people are the exact same anti-automation (ansible, etc) that have always existed. The train is coming, step aside or get hit by the ones enhancing their skills and capabilities.

Anthropic's Mythos has been accessed by a small group of unauthorized users, raising questions about control of the AI model bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Macklin Celebrini's final tally in his 19-year-old season: 82 games 45 goals 70 assists 115 points Ridiculous 🤯

And just like that, the Detroit Red Wings conclude the 2025/2026 season in the most fitting way imaginable. Describe your feelings about the season, GIFs only. ⤵️ #LGRW

@ChrisDPOMAY @HeleneStJames @HockeyWithDevin Major troll here. Todd is the coach we need. Discard the numbers with no passion that aren't skating out there 👉

@HeleneStJames @HockeyWithDevin Time for a coaching change in off season.

Todd McLellan's post-game interview after Red Wings embarrassing 8-1 season finale loss at the Florida Panthers.

@RyanHanaWWP Agree 💯

The Red Wings offense cannot afford to lose Patrick Kane at this point. Think of it what you will, but the reality is Detroit's scoring woes are already severe enough - removing his production & chemistry with their best scorer would make the hole too deep to climb out of. #LGRW

@koreanfitz @m_bultman Please please please.

@m_bultman Trashmussens good replacement

Carter Mazur’s most noticeable game so far IMO

@virtualized6ix Let's hang!!

For being in the networking space for ~18 years, I’ll finally be going to my first ever Cisco Live 😄

@myjakeisname @WingedWheelPod Is it reversible? 😆

@WingedWheelPod I'll have my Fedorov jersey out in public tonight in Columbus. I preemptively accept all blame/credit for whatever happens.

Jackets in town tonight. Must win. Can Detroit start a run to salvage the season? ⤵️ #LGRW