1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,400 We don't ask questions in the front row, so you can jump forward. 2 00:00:04,980 --> 00:00:11,620 So yeah, those who are joining us for the first time, we are Seattle Systems tech first 3 00:00:11,620 --> 00:00:16,740 community. We started around a year ago because we thought after COVID, we did not have 4 00:00:16,740 --> 00:00:22,980 a lot of in -person meetups where we share deep expertise. People are working in academia 5 00:00:22,980 --> 00:00:29,060 or industry across different communities. So we started that. I am one of the co -founders. 6 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:34,260 There are three others, or probably the full house today. Harry here has been pretty 7 00:00:34,260 --> 00:00:40,440 helpful since the beginning. Jeremy is the guy recording the speaker's view, and Jeff 8 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:41,220 at the end. 9 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:48,860 Thank you all so much for all the contributions all over the year. It's not easy to run, 10 00:00:48,860 --> 00:00:54,660 I guess you might have been seeing. That's why we don't have a lot of community tech 11 00:00:54,660 --> 00:00:58,480 meetups running this long. I guess Jeremy is one of them who has been running it for 12 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:03,520 like 15 years now, 16 years? The Postgres Meetup? Yeah. It wasn't made for that long. 13 00:01:03,660 --> 00:01:06,800 Yeah, but still. So he runs Postgres Meetup, 14 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,980 and funny thing is when he moved to Seattle in 2024, 15 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:15,500 then I was like, okay, there is definitely something that makes me reluctant to move 16 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:21,580 to Seattle. And that was the ability to attend these high quality tech talks, and then 17 00:01:21,580 --> 00:01:26,860 we realized that, okay, why not start one? And then we got together, and then it's working. 18 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:30,600 I think it's a good success that we can see that all these people are turning up every 19 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,280 time. So we have monthly periods of like once a month. 20 00:01:36,540 --> 00:01:39,960 We generally organize it around like third or fourth week. 21 00:01:40,940 --> 00:01:45,020 But yeah, that's pretty much it. But for today's session, I'll definitely thank Chris 22 00:01:45,020 --> 00:01:49,460 at the back and Antithesis. They are the sponsors for this event. So all the great food 23 00:01:49,460 --> 00:01:53,160 that we've been looking for is sponsored by them. And it's the first time we are doing 24 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:59,440 something crazy. And it has been pizza all this time. Not pizza. Not pizza. None of it 25 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:00,740 was. It was sponsored by Antithesis. 26 00:02:03,350 --> 00:02:07,650 Maybe Chris, if you want to have a couple minutes or something, introduce Antithesis. 27 00:02:07,930 --> 00:02:13,930 I mean, if anyone wants to come talk to me about deterministic testing, property -based 28 00:02:13,930 --> 00:02:20,030 testing, like new world of testing, I'm happy to do it. 29 00:02:21,810 --> 00:02:26,230 I chose tacos tonight because I was up at Vancouver Systems last night and there was 30 00:02:26,230 --> 00:02:28,130 pizza and I didn't want to eat pizza again. 31 00:02:29,110 --> 00:02:33,910 So I enjoyed the tacos tonight. And yeah, I just love this community. I love this group. 32 00:02:33,990 --> 00:02:40,110 I love this city. And thank you, Satesh, for giving us this opportunity. Thank you. 33 00:02:40,550 --> 00:02:45,290 Cool. I'll introduce our speakers. I don't think they need introduction. So here is Mark. 34 00:02:45,690 --> 00:02:50,090 Many people would have been knowing him from Mark's blog for every other idea that is 35 00:02:50,090 --> 00:02:52,510 coming from that Mark's blog. 36 00:02:53,410 --> 00:02:59,230 So I think he has a hell of a journey starting from EC2 to DynamoDB, now leading the 37 00:02:59,230 --> 00:03:05,470 agentics ecosystem in AWS. He'll talk more about that. And we have a couple of exciting 38 00:03:05,470 --> 00:03:11,290 speakers, Quaja and Daniela, at the end. We'll talk more about that. But thanks to Quaja 39 00:03:11,290 --> 00:03:15,510 and Momentum, I think Momentum and Quaja are one of the reasons that CRO Systems started 40 00:03:15,510 --> 00:03:20,530 as well, because he didn't come in as a co -founder or something, sort of. But I think 41 00:03:20,530 --> 00:03:25,270 he did a lot of help in the background, making sure that he provided support when I didn't 42 00:03:25,270 --> 00:03:27,890 have anyone sponsoring the event. Thank you for that. 43 00:03:28,810 --> 00:03:30,970 He's not a co -founder, so he doesn't have any stock. 44 00:03:33,490 --> 00:03:35,490 So yeah, that's pretty much it. 45 00:03:36,810 --> 00:03:37,350 Anything else? 46 00:03:39,150 --> 00:03:43,910 I'd like to just point out the fact that Satesh does like 85 % of the work. So he's pawning 47 00:03:43,910 --> 00:03:48,370 it off and like, how much help everybody else does. But the truth of the matter is that 48 00:03:48,370 --> 00:03:50,690 Seattle Systems wouldn't be Seattle Systems without Satesh. 49 00:03:54,390 --> 00:03:55,290 It's actually funny. 50 00:03:56,210 --> 00:04:01,650 I went down to the Bay Area where he moved from and attended his systems there and was 51 00:04:01,650 --> 00:04:06,650 like, we need this in Seattle. And one of my co -founders, an actual co -founder from 52 00:04:06,650 --> 00:04:10,470 my company, is friends with Satesh. He said, oh, well, you got to meet my friend Satesh. 53 00:04:10,490 --> 00:04:11,410 He's moving to Seattle. 54 00:04:12,670 --> 00:04:16,210 So instead of having to do the work myself, I was able to pawn it all off on him and 55 00:04:16,210 --> 00:04:21,590 get these great speakers and great events and great sponsors. So thanks again, Satesh. 56 00:04:21,590 --> 00:04:27,290 Awesome. Thank you so much. I think food is almost ready. So we'll start with that. Have 57 00:04:27,290 --> 00:04:31,790 some food so that everyone is not hungry in the middle. We can ask questions. There are 58 00:04:31,790 --> 00:04:33,690 name tags. I don't know if you run out of them. 59 00:04:34,950 --> 00:04:41,450 But stick it on your chest so that it's not awkward for new people to talk to. 60 00:04:41,930 --> 00:04:45,470 And if you're open, if you're working at a topic opening, make sure you mention that. 61 00:04:48,910 --> 00:04:50,450 You're talking about sponsorship opportunities. 62 00:04:51,750 --> 00:04:53,310 Yeah, I can find you guys as well. 63 00:04:54,470 --> 00:04:57,790 OK, all right. Thank you so much for coming again. Is there like a dirt for the food 64 00:04:57,790 --> 00:04:58,570 or are there directions? 65 00:05:00,550 --> 00:05:02,670 Maybe start on this end. 66 00:05:04,390 --> 00:05:09,530 Anybody who wants food, tacos, beans, the whole nine yards already, might want to come 67 00:05:09,530 --> 00:05:13,990 in this way because it looks like you want to go this way through. Yeah, I think great. 68 00:05:15,590 --> 00:05:18,570 So we'll give everybody a few minutes to get some food and then we'll start at the top.