GDG Dallas

New sponsor for our community! Yeehaw! 🤠

Summary: Joaquin Lopez announced that Packt has become a new sponsor for their community, bringing exciting opportunities like book giveaways and discount codes for events. Packt also has a special upcoming event focusing on AI integration with Kubernetes, highlighting the current challenges in infrastructure. Participants can benefit from discounted registration using a special code, and the first five to comment on the announcement will receive a free eBook of their choice. Roman Petrov expressed excitement for the free ML books, while Mustafa Shaik was concerned about possibly missing the opportunity.
AI Summary

✨ Great news! 📣 We have a new sponsor for our community! Yeehaw! 🤠

(Read to the end for a special surprise!)

Packt is joining to our effort to bring knowledge and expertise to the community, so they will be giving us books to give away during our events!

💰They also will give us discount codes to share with all of you and special prices for their own events, when they organize some.

🚨 BTW they have one coming: 👇👇👇

AI agents are becoming first-class workloads on Kubernetes — but production readiness is lagging.

📊 CNCF Survey highlights:

• 66% run generative AI on Kubernetes

• 82% run Kubernetes in production

• Only 7% deploy AI models daily

The gap isn’t AI capability.

It’s infrastructure maturity.

Join this session to learn how to move from demo to production-grade AI on Kubernetes — with real guardrails, risk control, and battle-tested practices.

🎟️ Register here:

https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fscaling-ai-on-kubernetes-from-demo-to-production-tickets-1982509579520%3Faff%3DGDGDALLAS40&trk=flagship-messaging-web&messageThreadUrn=urn%3Ali%3AmessagingThread%3A2-ZDA1YzEwMWEtYmViNy00ZjZiLWE2YTEtMmFjNWM2YjYyMjZjXzEwMA%3D%3D&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_messaging_conversation_detail%3BSRnZ%2F1Y3QKm5%2BuXF394SyQ%3D%3D

💸 Use code GDGDALLAS40 for a discount.

👇 First 5 people to comment get a FREE eBook of their choice.

Thanks Preet Ahuja for making this possible, and Yujun Liang for the idea and the contact! 🫶🏻

2 comments

I’m down for anything with free ML books.

Unsure, am I too late to the game :)