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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 05/08/2026

3 million views on the IBM Technology whiteboard explainers this week 🤯 Still doesn't feel real. Best part is it's free :) for students, engineers, managers, people with no technical background at all, everyone can learn AI and tech in an accessible way. Thanks for watching, and keep learning!

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 23/06/2026

You might’ve noticed I love open source and the impact that these projects have on the community 👀 that’s why this past week @devbcn.bsky.social I had the coolest opportunity to join my COUSIN who’s a PhD candidate and show open models + cloud-native for multi agent systems for research :)

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 22/04/2026

AI coding tools are about to get more expensive, and the @anthropic.com news yesterday is a good indicator of what’s to come ($20 to $100 for Claude Code). Understandable, because GPU compute isn’t cheap 👀 Running models in-house with #vLLM is starting to look quite nice!

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 09/04/2026

Self-hosting LLM’s typically includes a set of requirements for our infrastructure, ex: 🏎️ Hardware accelerators ⚙️ System & model configuration 📚 Specific libraries/dependencies That’s why @cern.voxxeddays.ch I was honored to demo Ramalama.ai, a project that containers to safely run AI models 🤖

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 25/03/2026

Live from #KubeCon Europe in Amsterdam! 🇳🇱 Big announcement from the Red Hat booth: llm-d, a cloud-native way to run AI at scale with major performance & cost savings. + ran a workshop on RAG at scale using KubeFlow & Docling on Kubernetes. Slides below 👇

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 23/03/2026

If you’ve seen my “silly slide” of all the open-source AI projects at past dev conferences, this week at #KubeCon we’re putting them together! Join me & friends for a hands-on workshop: build a sovereign RAG app on K8s with Kubeflow, Knative, Docling & vLLM. Wed 3/25 @ 11am 🚀 🔗 sched.co/2CW1f

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 06/03/2026

What does it look like to integrate #MCP into real enterprise workflows? This week at @devnexus.bsky.social we showed how to run, inspect, and scale agentic AI for debugging a Kubernetes clusters, diagnosing Ansible jobs, and much more! Check out the slides below ⬇️ as well as the MCP servers used!

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 23/02/2026

🤖 AI Agents are awesome… until they aren’t! What just happened with an 🦞 OpenClaw (ClawdBot/MoltBot) agent in the Matplotlib project on GitHub shows the potential challenges with giving AI Agents (LLM + Tools + Reasoning) the ability to act autonomously. It’s why guardrails and auth are important!

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 02/02/2026

Today kicks off @jfokus.se in Stockholm 🇸🇪 and we just delivered our workshop on building with open source AI models using: ⚡️ #vLLM serve local LLM’s as a local API endpoint 🦜 @langchain4j.dev for adding LLM capabilities in our Java application Was a huge hit! Slides ⬇️

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 23/01/2026

I’m excited to bring #Ramalama, the container-native project to run AI models locally, to @cern.voxxeddays.ch 🙌 We’ll show how fast devs can spin up an open source model using their favorite container engine (shoutout @podmanio.bsky.social) for RAG (Q&A on PDF’s) and Agentic (calling API’s) 🤖

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 12/01/2026

@jfokus.se is BACK for its 20th year and I’m so happy to be hosting a workshop on open source models & how to scale them up on #Kubernetes! We’ll feature projects including #vLLM + @langchain4j.dev + @promptfoo.bsky.social and more for enterprise AI deployment, app dev, and testing 🔥

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 12/11/2025

We’re BACK to Sweden 🇸🇪 this February! Excited to share that I’ll be joining and speaking at @jfokus.se this Feb 2-4th with the wonderful Stockholm dev community 💻 come by for our Day 1 workshop on building, testing, and deploying Java ☕️ apps using open source AI models and containers/Kubernetes!

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 14/10/2025

Had one of my most fun sessions yet with @allthingsopen.bsky.social on Local LLM’s, showing how developers can setup their own private RAG, Vibe Coding, and Agentic AI apps (thanks to #MCP) without needing 3rd party models! Ft @podmanio.bsky.social + #vLLM 💻 Slides: red.ht/local-llm

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 12/10/2025

Back to my hometown in Raleigh, NC for @allthingsopen.bsky.social this week 🤩 it’ll be a busy time with my Local LLMs talk tomorrow (Developer Room 1, 3:15pm) but we’ve already started with a #WeLoveOpenSource chat and I’ll be at the #RedHat booth tomorrow doing fun live demos 💻

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 23/09/2025

We had a BLAST this weekend in Boston for #DevConfUS and the #vLLM meetup talking all things open source and AI 🚀 from LLM compression, distributed model serving on Kubernetes, RAG/Agentic apps and so much more, the community is what drives things forward, and I’m so grateful!

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 14/08/2025

We keep hearing about open-source AI like GPT-OSS, DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama 🦙 & more: but how do you actually test and scale them? At #Ai4 in Vegas 🎰, we built a Blackjack coaching game to benchmark small language models on both CPU and GPU via #llama.cpp and #vLLM! I’ll link the slides and demo ⬇️

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 11/07/2025

Couldn’t be happier after a busy few days in Berlin for @wearedevelopers.bsky.social World Congress, catching up with friends & hanging out at the #RedHat stage! I’ll link my own developer & AI engineer focused sessions below, featuring @podmanio.bsky.social #vLLM & Meta’s #LlamaStack!

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 07/07/2025

Happy Monday folks! I’m inbound ✈️ to @devbcn.bsky.social where I’ll be speaking about my favorite open source projects @podmanio.bsky.social & @podman-desktop.io to show how simple it can be for developers to move from containers, to pods, to Kubernetes! Join me on July 9th @ 2:20 in Room 2 :)

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 01/07/2025

Back to my roots! I’m here in the NY IBM Technology studio to record a new whiteboard on @podmanio.bsky.social + @podman-desktop.io and #BootableContainers! It’s always a fun time producing these but Bootc is a uniquely special subject :)

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 25/06/2025

There’s a ✨ revolution ✨ happening in the open source ecosystem around private and local AI systems, which keep your data secure and your costs low (or free)! Earlier this month I joined #AIFokus and the @jfokus.se community to share how developers can get started, recording 🎥⤵️

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 13/06/2025

It’s day 2️⃣ at #DevConf_CZ where we’ve been talking all things open source, now at the conference evening social (with beautiful weather) to recap a big day! Today’s keynote was on Bootable Containers with @podmanio.bsky.social, plus our @instructlab.bsky.social workshop, and so much more 🥳

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 12/06/2025

We’re LIVE 🎥 here at #DevConf_CZ, the ultimate open source conference learning about the projects, people, and ideas that foster this amazing community! Was honored to help host the keynote (slides below) around open source AI and how devs, ops, and beyond can get involved :)

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 05/06/2025

Yesterday was #KCDNewYork and I’m beyond proud of our work in bringing together 250+ of the cloud-native community in my favorite city to share, network, and build relationships! Love seeing the power of open source at work, and thanks to the incredible team and volunteers 👏

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 21/05/2025

🎬 We’re LIVE here from #RedHatSummit and the energy has been amazing! So good to catch up with new and old friends, talking all things open source and featuring projects like #vLLM, @podmanio.bsky.social, @instructlab.bsky.social and many more that are building a bright future for AI!

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 15/05/2025

85% of the world’s data is unstructured, so today at @_odsc #ODSCEast in Boston we deep dive’d on advanced document parsing for AI workflows, showing how PDF’s and other valuable data sources can be effectively used in RAG and Agentic AI applications. Slides are linked below 👇

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 09/05/2025

What a time I had at @devoxx.uk this week, the energy was fantastic and it’s an honor to have attended and spoke at #DevoxxUK for the first time! Thanks to the Red Hat team with @kevindubois.com @danieloh30.bsky.social @myfear.com and many other rockstars for making this happen! 🚀 Slides below :)

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 01/05/2025

This week at #MLPrague I had the opportunity to join some fellow Red Hat rockstars and deliver a 3-hour presentation on infusing your data into a model, with a deep dive on @instructlab.bsky.social, #Docling, #vLLM and beyond for production-ready AI systems for the enterprise!

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 30/04/2025

📣 Been waiting to share this news! I’m honored to be joining DevConf.CZ this year as a keynote speaker, taking place June 12-14th in Brno, Czech Republic. Joined by the wonderful @cybette.bsky.social, our talk “Fine-Tuning Our Way Toward Openness in AI” explores tools, techniques, and collaboration!

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 18/04/2025

Wooo hoo! First #Devoxx completed successfully ✅ I had a fantastic time with the Red Hat team in Paris this week at @devoxx.fr and it blew my mind! 4,500 developers and engineers all tinkering and live demo-ing, including my talk on document processing using #Docling

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 08/04/2025

🚀 2025 has already been incredible, but now I’m excited to announce upcoming conferences that I’ll be attending & speaking at! Super excited to join incredible friends and colleagues at #Devoxx, #ODSC, and more! If you’ll be around, please let me know and come say hi 👋

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 01/04/2025

👀 Keep an eye out on the Red Hat channels for some new developer content! We just wrapped up my first studio session explaining fundamental AI concepts and covering open source projects (shoutout @podmanio.bsky.social, @instructlab.bsky.social , vLLM + more)

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 14/03/2025

BIG thanks to the folks at @t3chfest.es for a wonderful and community-first conference this week, we had a blast sharing some open source tools and AI models 🤖 for developers to save on costs and keep your data private! I’ll link the demo repository and slides below 👇

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 05/03/2025

We’re out and about at @devnexus.bsky.social in Atlanta today sharing the good word about #OpenSource and AI Model Customization with @instructlab.bsky.social! Come by for some awesome USB Keychain bottle openers :)

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 14/02/2025

Today wraps up DeveloperWeek in Santa Clara, where our Red Hat team was honored to join and keynote the open source path for AI & developer experience with @podmanio.bsky.social, OpenShift, and cloud-native technology! Also honored to receive the #DEVIES award for mobile development innovation 📱🚀

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 08/02/2025

A bit late to the @fosdem.bsky.social recap party, but I had SUCH a blast as a first time attendee. Everyone is so kind, helpful, and really technically wise, I felt like it was a developer’s Disneyland 🏰 glad to be able to share my tiny bit of expertise in #AI and see some great friends!

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Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com · 31/01/2025

Very very excited to be headed to @fosdem.bsky.social today, where the open source world meets to connect and learn! I’ll be speaking on @podmanio.bsky.social, bootable containers with @centos.org, as well as synthetic data generation this weekend. First time attendee, let’s see what it’s about 🚀

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