• Observability in the Kitchen: Improving Your Bread-making Skills with Open-Source Monitoring

    How can you leverage sensors, open-source software, and Go to improve your kitchen skills? This lightning talk explores the relationship between bread-making, humidity, and temperature, and how one can use monitoring tools to gain insight into the lively world of sourdough cultures. I am going to share my delicious and metric-filled bread-making process, hopefully inspiring attendees to see how modern-day tooling written in Go can be used to enhance traditional fields.

  • Baby Steps to Open-Source Contribution

    How can underrepresented folks in technology be involved with open-source software? What can individuals and companies do to help increase diverse contributions?