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      <title>Code, Chaos, and Copilots (AI/LLM Talk July 2024)</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>A talk I gave to some peers on creating your own SDXL LoRA models from my tinkering around over the last few weeks.</description>
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      <title>Talk - Clustered, Distributed File and Volume Storage with GlusterFS</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Using GlusterFS to provide volume storage to Kubernetes as a replacement for our existing file and static content hosting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This talk was given at &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.meetup.com/Infrastructure-Coders/events/244535588/&#34;&gt;Infracoders&lt;/a&gt; on Tuesday 14th November 2017.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Click below to view slides (PDF version):
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      <title>SAN Intro</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Talk - High Performance Software Defined Storage</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;A high level talk from Infracoders Melbourne on 12/04/2015.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/sammcj/smcleod_files/refs/heads/master/slides/lightning_san.pdf&#34;&gt;&lt;img alt=&#34;Click to Start Slides&#34; loading=&#34;lazy&#34; src=&#34;https://smcleod.net//img/san/supermicrox2.jpg&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;There&amp;rsquo;s also a low quality recording available here:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/VAdqurA2zQ4?t=198&#34;&gt;&lt;img alt=&#34;Click to Start Video&#34; loading=&#34;lazy&#34; src=&#34;https://smcleod.net//img/san/ic-sds-yt-thumb.png&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Related posts:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://smcleod.net/building-a-high-performance-ssd-san/&#34;&gt;Building a high performance SSD SAN - Part 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The way we work at Infoxchange has changed greatly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A retrospective journey into transforming Infoxchange&amp;rsquo;s technology and culture over the past 24 months - presented a Melbourne DevOps - December 2014&lt;/p&gt;
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