Jason "Jay" Smith

Pour One Out For Heroku All Serverless, All The Time

With the "turn down" of Heroku, I wanted to share some of my thoughts. They were one of the original PaaS platforms and a precursor to serverless technology. It is sad to see this change so let's examine it. Read my newsletter to get my thoughts.

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Before you scale: A guide to Cloud Run cost optimization Go to the Optimization Hub → https://goo.gle/4lf5KV3 Mitchell Slep (Engineering Manager, Cloud Run) joins Martin Omander to walk through the practical mechanics of Cloud Run cost optimization. This…

Need help controlling your Google Cloud Run spending? Check out this video to make sure you have the best #serverless experience possible

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Why Kubernetes for Serverless? The world of technology is constantly shifting and evolving. Stay up to date on the latest concepts and conversations with these posts from Jason (Jay) Smith.

I just wrote a blog post about using #kubernetes for #serverless applications. It is a misconception that you cannot build you own serverless platform within your own tenant. This blog post make the case for using Kubernetes!

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Whether or not you celebrate, I wish everyone an amazing day today.

Holiday Meetup for the San Francisco Cloud Native Community | CNCF In-person Event - We made it through 2025! Before you take off for the holidays spend some time with your local Cloud Native Community. J...

Hey San Francisco! It's not too late to join us for our Holiday Happy Hour. Spend a few hours with your local Cloud Native Community and have some laughs and great conversations!

Bring an unwrapped toy for Family House and we will treat you to a beverage!

Be sure to RSVP here!

If you want to learn more about how to use Pulumi on Google Cloud to accelerate AI development and training, look no further.

Join us on December 17 @ 11am PST to learn more! RSVP at the Link Below!

5 things to try with Gemini 3 Pro in Gemini CLI- Google Developers Blog Unlock state-of-the-art coding and reasoning in your terminal. Gemini 3 Pro is now in Gemini CLI for Google AI Ultra and paid API subscribers.

Gemini 3 can be used in Gemini CLI. Try out some functionality

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Google invests $40B in Texas for cloud, AI growth On Friday, Google announced a $40 billion investment in Texas.

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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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.

CoreWeave has created a serverless reinforcement learning offering to further serverless AI and AI Agents!

#serverless #serverlessai

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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.

Adopting AI agents is not a silver bullet, and governance guardrails, including human oversight, will be needed to make a success out of deployments.

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

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

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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,…

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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Platform Engineering in 3 Minutes YouTube video by PulumiTV

Cool video from @pulumi.com
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Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.

Google just donated the A2A Protocol to the Linux Foundation!

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Pre-Summer Community Meetup at Alchemist Bar! | CNCF In-person Event - Meetup hosted by Grafana with speakers from Dagger

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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Puluminaries The Puluminaries are members of the community who are experts & leaders in the field of programming & infrastructure & give back to the growing community!

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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Who is better at identifying tipsy people in public? Shaboozey or J-Kwon?

Hello BlueSky!