Supply-Chain on Prasanth Baskar

Standardizing the Unstandardized: Securing AI Supply Chain With Model-Spec and Kitops

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This talk looks at AI artifacts through a supply-chain lens. The core problem is that models, datasets, configuration, and runtime assumptions often move through systems without the same standardization and traceability expected from container images or application releases.

Beyond ImagePullBackOff: A Stateless, Secret-less Distributed Registry

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This lightning talk starts from a very familiar Kubernetes failure mode: ImagePullBackOff.

The talk explores what registry access could look like if distribution moved toward stateless and secret-less patterns. It connects Kubernetes image pulls, registry design, credentials, and operational reliability into one platform engineering problem.

Manufacturing Software Like Chips

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What if software is manufactured like semiconductors?

That question sounds strange only because software still carries the mythology of craft. We talk about individual developers, clever prompts, velocity, tickets, and heroic debugging sessions. We still design many organizations as if humans are the primary producers of code.