WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.400 We don't ask questions in the front row, so you can jump forward. 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 00:00:11.620 --> 00:00:16.740 community. We started around a year ago because we thought after COVID, we did not have 00:00:16.740 --> 00:00:22.980 a lot of in -person meetups where we share deep expertise. People are working in academia 00:00:22.980 --> 00:00:29.060 or industry across different communities. So we started that. I am one of the co -founders. 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:34.260 There are three others, or probably the full house today. Harry here has been pretty 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:40.440 helpful since the beginning. Jeremy is the guy recording the speaker's view, and Jeff 00:00:40.440 --> 00:00:41.220 at the end. 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, 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 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 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. 00:01:03.660 --> 00:01:06.800 Yeah, but still. So he runs Postgres Meetup, 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:10.980 and funny thing is when he moved to Seattle in 2024, 00:01:11.960 --> 00:01:15.500 then I was like, okay, there is definitely something that makes me reluctant to move 00:01:15.500 --> 00:01:21.580 to Seattle. And that was the ability to attend these high quality tech talks, and then 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. 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 00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:35.280 time. So we have monthly periods of like once a month. 00:01:36.540 --> 00:01:39.960 We generally organize it around like third or fourth week. 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 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 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 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 00:01:59.440 --> 00:02:00.740 was. It was sponsored by Antithesis. 00:02:03.350 --> 00:02:07.650 Maybe Chris, if you want to have a couple minutes or something, introduce Antithesis. 00:02:07.930 --> 00:02:13.930 I mean, if anyone wants to come talk to me about deterministic testing, property -based 00:02:13.930 --> 00:02:20.030 testing, like new world of testing, I'm happy to do it. 00:02:21.810 --> 00:02:26.230 I chose tacos tonight because I was up at Vancouver Systems last night and there was 00:02:26.230 --> 00:02:28.130 pizza and I didn't want to eat pizza again. 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. 00:02:33.990 --> 00:02:40.110 I love this city. And thank you, Satesh, for giving us this opportunity. Thank you. 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. 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 00:02:50.090 --> 00:02:52.510 coming from that Mark's blog. 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 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 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 00:03:11.290 --> 00:03:15.510 and Momentum, I think Momentum and Quaja are one of the reasons that CRO Systems started 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 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 00:03:25.270 --> 00:03:27.890 have anyone sponsoring the event. Thank you for that. 00:03:28.810 --> 00:03:30.970 He's not a co -founder, so he doesn't have any stock. 00:03:33.490 --> 00:03:35.490 So yeah, that's pretty much it. 00:03:36.810 --> 00:03:37.350 Anything else? 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 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 00:03:48.370 --> 00:03:50.690 Seattle Systems wouldn't be Seattle Systems without Satesh. 00:03:54.390 --> 00:03:55.290 It's actually funny. 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 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 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. 00:04:10.490 --> 00:04:11.410 He's moving to Seattle. 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 00:04:16.210 --> 00:04:21.590 get these great speakers and great events and great sponsors. So thanks again, Satesh. 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 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 00:04:31.790 --> 00:04:33.690 name tags. I don't know if you run out of them. 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. 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. 00:04:48.910 --> 00:04:50.450 You're talking about sponsorship opportunities. 00:04:51.750 --> 00:04:53.310 Yeah, I can find you guys as well. 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 00:04:57.790 --> 00:04:58.570 or are there directions? 00:05:00.550 --> 00:05:02.670 Maybe start on this end. 00:05:04.390 --> 00:05:09.530 Anybody who wants food, tacos, beans, the whole nine yards already, might want to come 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. 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.