The Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) 21x was held on 15-17th March 2024 in Pasadena, LA. I was lucky enough to present a talk titled “So you want to build an Incident Response stack using OpenTelemetry?”.

We also had a booth there from Grafana:

The vibes were immaculate. It felt a lot less enterprise-y and had a lot of hackers building fun stuff - both hardware and software. Here’s my favourite one:

On first glance it looks like a regular Soda dispenser. But the makers have actually ripped the insides out and replace it with a server rack. You can put quarters in, choose the flavor of Linux, and it will spin it up on the server rack inside the dispenser. It will also print a receipt with the SSH credentials to log into the VM!

I also became a member (and Sponsor) of the Network Time Foundation at the Scale conference! They help support a lot of work with the couple heating their own home by running NTP servers; but rarely get funding/sponsorship, so consider making a donation if you can :)

Now I want to go to FOSDEM.