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Kit Merker reposted thisThe way software gets built is changing — fast. At Sonar, we're at the center of that shift. As the leader in AI code review and verification, we help ensure that code written by AI-assisted developers and autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable. That's not a nice-to-have. It's mission-critical for every software team on the planet. We're building out our #Austin sales team and looking for driven, hungry people ready to grow with us: * Sales Development Representatives (SDR) * Commercial & Enterprise Account Executives * Sales Engineers This is a rare opportunity in a profitable, fast-growing, pre-IPO global software company with real product-market fit, a technical buyer who gets it, and a category that's only getting more important. If you're energized by selling developer tools or infrastructure software, love working with technical users, and want to be part of a team that moves fast and wins — I want to hear from you. 📩 Reach out to me directly: CEO at SonarSource.com 📍 Please note: All roles are Austin-based. We do not remote for these positions.Better Code & Better Software | Ultimate Security and QualityBetter Code & Better Software | Ultimate Security and Quality
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Kit Merker reposted thisYesterday, I shared why the industry needs a new way of working: the Agent Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Today at #SonarSummit, we announced several innovations to help bring this to life. To lead the next era of software development, Sonar is evolving to support the full Guide-Verify-Solve needs of agentic workflows. 🛠️Solving for Quality at the Source: With #SonarSweep, we’re cleaning and remediating the very datasets used to train and fine-tune LLMs, reducing vulnerabilities by up to 67%. ⚡Context-Aware Engineering: With Sonar #ContextAugmentation, we ensure agents are "repo-aware," injecting real-time insights so they adhere to your specific standards during generation. ☑️Native Agentic Reasoning: We are bringing our analysis natively to any agentic workflow with #SonarQube #AgenticAnalysis (via MCP or CLI). This enables agents to self-verify their work through native reasoning flows. ⚙️Autonomous Remediation: With #SonarQube #RemediationAgent, we’re giving teams the power to automatically repair quality gate blockers in real-time, closing the "review-fix-verify" loop autonomously. 🧱Stable Architecture: Now generally available, SonarQube #Architecture detects architectural drift to ensure rapid, agent-led changes don’t compromise your application’s underlying modularity. By expanding into the Guide and Solve elements of the AC/DC, and furthering our strength in the Verification stage, Sonar is ensuring that agentic code generation happens with higher effectiveness, lower risk, and lower cost. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/eJjsbY-ZSonar Introduces the ‘Agent Centric Development Cycle’ for the Next Era of Software DevelopmentSonar Introduces the ‘Agent Centric Development Cycle’ for the Next Era of Software Development
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Kit Merker reposted thisKit Merker reposted thisvCluster: Bare Metal Machine Management on its Virtual Cluster Technology - Leveraging its virtual Kubernetes cluster technology, vCluster now offers vMetal, which provides a bare metal machine management layer that automates the infrastructure operations necessary to run a GPU-based cloud. https://lnkd.in/eRZhSQkjvCluster: Bare Metal Machine Management on its Virtual Cluster TechnologyvCluster: Bare Metal Machine Management on its Virtual Cluster Technology
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Kit Merker reposted thisKit Merker reposted thisIntroducing kubemark-ai - Run NVIDIA DGX Cloud Benchmarks on Kubernetes, vCluster, and Any GPU Machine Every AI team needs to answer: "How fast are our GPUs, really?" NVIDIA open-sourced dgxc-benchmarking - their official GPU benchmark suite for validating AI infrastructure. But it only works with Slurm. kubemark-ai bridges that gap. One command to run the same NCCL and training benchmarks on: - Any Kubernetes cluster (GKE, EKS, DOKS, bare metal) - Any GPU machine directly via Docker (no K8s needed) - Inside vCluster for isolated, multi-tenant benchmarking with zero GPU overhead I tested it on an NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10 - ARM64 Grace + Blackwell) and GKE with L4 GPUs. Real results, real hardware, real numbers. What's inside: - 5 NCCL communication benchmarks (AllReduce, AllGather, ReduceScatter, AllToAll, SendRecv) - Training benchmarks (GPT-2 portable, plus Qwen3-30B and Llama 3.1-8B via NeMo) - Works with any NVIDIA GPU — H100, A100, B200, L40S, L4, DGX Spark GB10 - Built-in dashboard with sourced reference numbers from NVIDIA's dgxc-benchmarking repo - vCluster isolation proves <2.3% overhead vs bare metal — control plane virtualization, not data plane Open source (Apache 2.0): https://lnkd.in/g-XZrXf5 Would love feedback - what benchmarks or GPU types should I add next? #GPU #Kubernetes #NVIDIA #AI #MLOps #vCluster #Benchmarking #OpenSource #NCCL #DGXSpark
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Kit Merker reposted thisKit Merker reposted thisBig unlock for us at QumulusAI. We’re partnering with vCluster to bring enterprise-grade Kubernetes to hyperspeed AI infrastructure. This is about more than orchestration. Together, we’re launching an AI Infrastructure Lab powered by QumulusAI - giving vCluster a live environment to test, build, and evolve alongside the pace of AI. Real infrastructure. Real workloads. Real speed. Because the future of AI won’t be built in static environments. It will be built in motion. This isn’t hyperscale as you know it. It’s hyperspeed. 😎 Read more: https://lnkd.in/gHAiX_Pa Excited about all the exciting work that our teams have been doing together. Let's go!!! Ryan DiRocco, Lukas Gentele, Paul Hinz, Steve Gertz, Mike Maniscalco, John Karant, Adam Taylor Brown, Jon Fatino to name a few 👏 👏 👏QumulusAI: QumulusAI and vCluster Partner to Accelerate Enterprise AI Development and Launch AI Infrastructure LabQumulusAI: QumulusAI and vCluster Partner to Accelerate Enterprise AI Development and Launch AI Infrastructure Lab
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Kit Merker reposted thisKit Merker reposted thisFor those navigating central vision loss every day, you deserve better tools. We’re building toward that future. Let’s take this journey together. Learn more about Innovega's journey by visiting innovega.io or finding us on the Start Engine Platform: https://lnkd.in/gJAqscby
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Kit Merker posted thisJust arrived back in Seattle. Not sure if any SREcon folks are still in town but hit me up!
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Kit Merker reposted thisKit Merker reposted thisLast day at KubeCon EU. Here's what we have at Booth 520 today. 10:30 AM - Demo: Cost-Effective AI with Ollama, GKE GPU Sharing, and vCluster with Saiyam Pathak + Voyager keyboard raffle 1:00 PM - Demo: Connecting External Node On Local Kubernetes Cluster Using vind with Saiyam Pathak If you haven't stopped by yet, come join us at Booth #520. #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon
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Kit Merker reposted thisKit Merker reposted thisSonarQube Server 2026.2 is here. 🚀 This release is built for teams who need to move fast without compromising on code quality or security — and it's packed with updates that matter: 🤖 Model-agnostic AI CodeFix: Intelligent remediation suggestions directly in your self-managed environment — no source code leaving your firewall, no exposure to public LLMs. 🌐 Expanded language & framework support: Java 25, FastAPI, Flask, Django, Groovy, and enhanced Apex — including new rules purpose-built to catch the subtle bugs AI coding assistants introduce. 🔒 Unified security reporting: SCA data, SBOM, and first-party code health together in one report — a complete picture of your codebase and software supply chain risk. Update your instance today, or talk to us about migrating to SonarQube Cloud for automatic updates and the same enterprise capabilities. 👇 https://bit.ly/4sBUwg2
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Kit Merker liked thisThe way software gets built is changing — fast. At Sonar, we're at the center of that shift. As the leader in AI code review and verification, we help ensure that code written by AI-assisted developers and autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable. That's not a nice-to-have. It's mission-critical for every software team on the planet. We're building out our #Austin sales team and looking for driven, hungry people ready to grow with us: * Sales Development Representatives (SDR) * Commercial & Enterprise Account Executives * Sales Engineers This is a rare opportunity in a profitable, fast-growing, pre-IPO global software company with real product-market fit, a technical buyer who gets it, and a category that's only getting more important. If you're energized by selling developer tools or infrastructure software, love working with technical users, and want to be part of a team that moves fast and wins — I want to hear from you. 📩 Reach out to me directly: CEO at SonarSource.com 📍 Please note: All roles are Austin-based. We do not remote for these positions.Better Code & Better Software | Ultimate Security and QualityBetter Code & Better Software | Ultimate Security and Quality
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Kit Merker liked thisKit Merker liked thisWe’re pleased to announce the appointment of Smita Ojha as Vice President, Technology at Flipkart. In this role, she will lead the platforms that serve as the backbone for many of our technology systems. In her own words, she’s excited about working at the place that has laid the foundation and raised the bar for technology standards within India. Smita brings over 20 years of experience building large-scale systems, distributed platforms, and AI/ML solutions at iconic technology organizations. Her career began in 2002, working on SharePoint and later becoming the first engineer to deploy it to the cloud, gaining expertise in backend, query, ranking, machine learning, and security. She then handled extremely large-scale systems at Meta and Google, covering commerce, analytics, data platform, identity management, security, and compliance. Most recently, as SVP of Engineering at Mindtickle, she launched GenAI product lines, scaled legacy platforms for global users, and optimized R&D using a Data Mesh Architecture on Snowflake. Smita holds an MS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in Computer Science from IIT, with a strong academic foundation in collaborative filtering and data warehousing. In many ways, Smita has been at the center of some of the most critical technology disruptions and evolutions over the last 2 decades. She’s now looking forward to continuing her legacy with Flipkart - where she was drawn by the company’s culture of empowerment, audacity and bias for action. Her decision is also driven by a desire to contribute to India's tech sector and work with some of the best minds across functions. As a leader, she believes in a foundation of trust - established through being a subject matter expert, maintaining transparency and achieving goals together with a shared purpose. When not driving technological advancements at work, Smita describes herself as being “crazy about chess” to the extent that she’d rather watch a chess game than that new Netflix series. In addition to that, she enjoys playing strategic board games with family, gardening, and her daily walks in nature for grounding. As we always do, we asked her for a book recommendation, and her answer was The Spy and The Traitor. A rather different choice, we must say! Based on a true story, it offers leadership lessons, particularly about making critical decisions with limited data and the need for perfection. Buy it on Flipkart, now: https://lnkd.in/g_irteXa Welcome to Flipkart, Smita - we’re excited to have you! #Flipkart #NewHire #Technology #Platforms #Engineering #NewFlipster
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Kit Merker liked thisKit Merker liked thisSaiyam Pathak is on the KubeCon main stage today for the TAG Operational Resilience session alongside speakers from Broadcom, Kubermatic, Krol Cloud, and Apple. The session covers three initiatives the TAG is currently driving: how the Sustainability Month sparked global cooperation to focus on the impact of GreenOps, standardized best practices for software delivery in OSS projects to mitigate deployment risks, and a reference framework that helps organizations move from manual operations toward fully autonomous self-healing systems. 2:15 PM CET, Amtrium 1+2. Session link in the comments 👇️ #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon
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Kit Merker liked thisKit Merker liked thisChainguard CEO Dan Lorenc says AI is accelerating both software development and cyberattacks. He points to the TeamPCP breaches that injected malware into LiteLLM on PyPI as a recent example. Chainguard launched Commercial Builds, partnering with GitLab, Elastic, and NGINX to secure their software supply chains. Lorenc says agentic-written code now exceeds human-written code at Chainguard daily. Full Fortt Knox conversation linked in the comments:
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Kit Merker liked thisKit Merker liked thisWe're hiring a Head of Marketing at vCluster. I don't speak in hyperbole when I say this is a once-in-a-career opportunity. AI infrastructure is one of the fastest-growing, most heavily invested spaces in the history of tech. We're not watching it unfold; we're building the foundation it runs on. This is a rare chance to lead marketing at a company positioned to define a category. If you've led marketing for a dev tool or infrastructure company and know how to reach AI Clouds, AI Factories, and platform teams, check it out. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eDkRJHaJ
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Kit Merker liked thisBig crowd of flux people!Kit Merker liked this#fluxcon EU 2026 Strong turnout, thanks folks. Thanks ControlPlane. Here a few hundreds eyes pointed to Stefan Prodan.
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