Alexis &quot;Horgix&quot; Chotard

1 Apr

Just contributed to a podcast for the first time ever - live today during the #AWSSummit with @sebsto.bsky.social 's AWS 🇫🇷 podcast ♥ Great experience! You'll be able to listen to itin ~June, talking about our journey at @payfiteng.bsky.social from Kubernetes on EC2 to managed/serverless services :)

Really good tradeoffs scales shared by @doctolib.bsky.social at #PlatformCon on how they built their platform to enable shipping micro services to break away from their monolith. Super mature! This is everything I wish people building platforms would discuss and make explicit on their strategy.

On point summary on migrations approach by Serhii at #PlatformCon - going stage by stage across the services rather than each service one by one Loved the following quote : "More people on the same [migration] model scale the model's inefficiency and hide it"

Great talk by Fahed Dorgaa at the #PlatformCon live Paris on CVEs impact analysis with context and LLMs thanks to github.com/venslabs/vens ! Really interesting, turning massive list of CVEs from artifacts into specialized insights Aldo, thanks to him for maintaining nerdctl which I use daily 🙏

Second year of #PlatformCon in Paris by @wescale.bsky.social , second year of @payfiteng.bsky.social talking! And this year, it is Pablo, pour Platform Engineering Director, talking about securing platforms in the AI era :)

Always a pleasure to see @juhnny5.bsky.social on stage :) Explaining today at #PlatformCom how the Restos du Coeur built their own AI tooling from refurbished hardware & open source ❤️ vLLM & Envoy AI Gateway helping a long way on top of other Cloud du Coeur nase blocks, up to LibreChat and more!

Second year of #PlatformCon live in Paris hosted by @wescale.bsky.social , and this 2026 edition agenda is filled with AI, with Luca Galante and Manuel Pais opening the atage It's only 10AM and I already took the laptop out of my bas to check something with a Kyverno maintainer :D

And that's a wrap for this edition of @breizhcamp.org ! Thanks so much to the organizing team, this conference is definitely one of the best we have in France. Super interesting talks all across the agenda, super friendly vibe, sponsors tagging along the theme with creative games, nice food... ❤️

And propre care with regards to the ongoing heatwave! Water spray, "cool" rooms aside, fresh food, water dispensées everywhere, permanent reminders to take care, etc. They handled it super well - proof: I survived :D Hopefully sée you next year depending on the CFP 👀

Wrapping up this @breizhcamp.org with Nicolas De Loof on sandboxing with microVMs through github.com/containerd/n... Let's see what's new with the OCI runtime spec Implementations ! Can be especially interesting to sandbox agents more than just Docker which is already useful for that purpose

Remind me about my talk on Docker standardization years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH94... Never heard about EROFS before though, glad I picked that talk despite my familiarity with the topic! erofs.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/ Same for libkrun :o github.com/libkrun/libk...

Crash-cours-reminder on VirtIO :D OK and gVisor for the network part. Love the iNerdBox mplementation, it's really nice in its approach and stacked optimizations Definitely going to give it a try at home :) Also: www.docker.com/products/doc...

s.42l.frMoins d’infra, plus de produit : notre chemin vers les services managés — BreizhCamp 2026 (2026-06-26)🇫🇷 version below / version 🇫🇷 plus loin This is the slide deck of a talk (55min) presented at the BreizhCamp conference in June 2026 in Rennes by Ale…

Missed my talk today at @breizhcamp.org about @PayFitEng.bsky.social platform path toward more managed & serverless services for its infrastructure and overall architecture ? While waiting for the recording, here is the content (in 🇫🇷) I presented:

And now: ethical decisions at @breizhcamp.org Props to the speakers for providing a written script of the talk (docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...) right from the start so visually or earing impaires people have an easier tome folloIng along - @sestegra.bsky.social and bis KCCNC talk would be proue!

ethicalsource.devEthical Source: Open Source, Evolved.The Organization for Ethical Source is a global, multidisciplinary community devoted to centering justice, equity, and human rights in the practice of open source.

Learnt about ethicalsource.dev

Now @nledez.fr at @breizhcamp.org on how AI helped him reduce the carbon footprint of github.com/cgwire/zou CI Appreciate the early disclaimer of what the talk will _not_ discuss. I should do that more in my own talks instead of always trying to cram everything together.

Claude first low effort improvement suhgestions TIL about GitHub Actions services (I'm not using GitHub Actions that much fwiw) docs.github.com/en/actions/t... Crazy that simple token reuse had so much impact on CI duration!

On reducing the version matrix test: check for all Python versions with the latest PostgreSQL version, and all PostgreSQL versions for stable Python, instead of every combination. Nice middle ground! Reals gains in the end, and GitHub considering the project's CI friendly enough for scheduling

On 60min CI (20min wait and 40min duration) being painful: "We're qn open-source projet son GitHub Actions are créé, which helped us avoiding opimtomizations, which is a problem in itself' Also, GitHub prioritize your runs lower if they're heavy.

Last day of @breizhcamp.org opening with a keynote by Karine Sabatier on Enshittification - great followup to @julientopcu.com closing yesterday with Tech & Pop Culture ! Let's see if there's some light at the end of the tunnel to escape the platform effect somehow.

Wrapping up with some reading recommendation

That was a great talk that I'll happily share the recording of. Thanks @breizhcamp.org organizers for scheduling that keynote!

Super happy to see @aeris.eu.org incredible work with bonjourlafuite.eu.org being showcased here at a @breizhcamp.org keynote ! That has been one of the corner pieces in the discussions with non-tech friends and family.

youtube.comA Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificatorYouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

OK www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up... is brilliant.

Yes on paying for the tools you use - which also includes donating to the FOSS software you use on my opinion! And on being careful with vanity metrics on what _we_ code and ship.

Didn't know about www.echirolles.fr/territoire-n... being so engaged in tech sovereignty Also discovered eurostack.eu

"Consent must not be tied to contract execution if the personal data usage isn't strictly necessary for the contract" - Thanks GDPR even if usually largely ignored (reach out tu @asso-purr.eu.org if you want to help change that I guess!)

On code neutrality, I strongly suggest everyone in tech watching @at.bortzmeyer.fr keynote from a few years ago at @touraine.tech : www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tHw... Loved it live, and more meaningful than ever

Welp, nothing new or surprising, but always a good reminder to share. And thanks to @laquadrature.bsky.social for fighting in France! This is your nudge to donate to them, or the EFF if in the US.

So, what are our options and way out of this hell?

Of all the tech companies, I wouldn't have thought of AirBnB for being so much subsidized: existed since 2008, profitable since 2023. Never saw the "adversarial interoperability" wording before, that's a pretty good and explicit description coined here!

portail-ie.frAdvertising Intelligence (ADINT) : le renseignement par la publicité - Portail de l'IEDécouvrez comment l’ADINT détourne le système de la publicité en ligne pour suivre des individus et collecter leurs données dans une opacité totale.

Gotta read www.portail-ie.fr/univers/2025...

s.42l.frArrêtez le “feeling” : pilotez vos pratiques avec des policies — BreizhCamp 2026 (2026-06-25)🇫🇷 version below / version 🇫🇷 plus loin This is the slide deck of a talk (25min) presented at the BreizhCamp conference in June 2026 in Rennes by Ale…

25 June

Missed my talk today at @breizhcamp.org about policies-as-code, their role in steering organizations (engineering) practices, and how they can bring more explicitness than feeling only ? While waiting for the recording, here is the content (in 🇫🇷) I presented:

25 June

Early this morning at @breizhcamp.org to benefit from the morning fresh air (relatively speaking...) for a last dry run of the talk I'll present this afternoon : Stop with the feeling, steer your organization with policies ! Hopefully the demo will go fine, my laptop essentially died 2 days ago 🙈

Props to @klf37.bsky.social at @breizhcamp.org for an incredibly complete, interesting and smoothly delivered talk about improving devs & ops experience by considering them with the same care as end users/clients! Didn't even take notes given how engaging it was. Make sure to catch the recording!

Folks from @wescale.bsky.social talking at @breizhcamp.org , and it's about SecNumCloud and admin devices ? Of course I'm in! Go go Chris Navas & David Gandra, with a real life feedback from NumSpot Let's enjoy the thousands-lines-long rules spreadsheets checks VS actual implementation 😄

Interesting to learn more about how policies-as-code can help auditing anything, including the practices shared during this talk? I'll talk about it tomorrow at @breizhcamp.org at 17:30 😉

Last advices from our dear speakers Great talk on an uncommon topic, congrats @wescale.bsky.social and NumSpot !

Toolbox for compliance checks : - github.com/intuitem/cis... - cisofy.com/lynis/

In practice: - BIOS / UEFI hardening (locks, disables, encryption, etc) - Proper mounts (noexec, nosuid, nodev) - Firewalling - systemd-homed for user data persistence (that image 😂) - Observability (logs)

LOVE the approach. Live-reviewed ("4 eyes ceremony") image construction, then installed through PXE. No internet-connected end devices, 30min rollout of a change with full rebuild+re-image: quite efficient! And CPE files to audit CVEs without agents or connectivity.

Second talk of the day at @breizhcamp.org : Daria Hervieux and Mailya Bogrova on passwordless UX. Seeing how badly identification flows are often implemented, can't wait to have some useful tips to share! TIL we know fingerprints identification since 1880

Still a long way to go for passwords, even if passkeys are globally considered both more secure and more usable. Let's dive deeper into this.

Juste learnt about CXP - fidoalliance.org/specs/cx/cxp...

Room is _packed_ for this very first talk at @breizhcamp.org 2026! And it's no surprise given the topic: loving development at the AI era Props to the conference organizing team: they have done a _ton_ across the board to help survive the heat wave. Let's see how far we can make it without melting!

boristane.comBoris TaneAI agents didn't make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that's left is context.

Gotta read boristane.com/blog/the-sof... 👀

While that seems a perfectly logical consequence, seeing real proof of de-skilling including in medicine is kinda scary? Especially if you end up doubting your own judgment versus the machine even when you're right. Real question: if it works at 90℅, is it enough? I guess it all depends on context

Quite a few hands raised to the "Who loves their job _less_ since AI arrived?" question.

Alexis "Horgix" Chotard reposted

Tech F'Est Nancy

@tech-fest.dev

12 June

On commence avec @horgix.fr qui nous parle d’incident technique. Première fois qu’on voie un cône de chantier sur la scène du tech f’est

s.42l.frAlerte, tout brûle ! Comment gérer des incidents techniques — Tech F'Est Nancy (2026-06-12)🇫🇷 version below / version 🇫🇷 plus loin This is the slide deck of a talk presented at the Tech F'Est conference in June 2026 in Nancy by Alexis "Horg…

12 June

Missed my talk today at @tech-fest.dev about tech incidents management (theoretical & personal convictions + experience feedback from @payfiteng.bsky.social ) ? While waiting for the recording, here is the content (in 🇫🇷) I presented: