Michael Dawson
@mhdawson.bsky.social
Senior Principal Software Engineer, AI & Data Science on the Ecosystem Engineering team at Red Hat. Enjoys exploring tech and building apps to make daily life more fun! (All posts my own opinion)
Last in the series on what we learned building the it-self-service-agent AI quickstart on CI/CD for agentic AI - developers.redhat.com/articles/202.... Hope you found the series helpful.
Deploy with confidence: Continuous integration and continuous delivery for agentic AI | Red Hat Developer
Learn how our team implemented CI/CD pipelines for the it-self-service-agent AI quickstart and the benefits of using CI/CD for agentic systems
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Heading out this weekend to @RedHat Summit. I'll be at the AI quickstart booth and have a talk on Thursday May 14th at 11 AM on the it-self-service-agent quickstart. Room B308-B309- Level 3. Hope to see you there.
Latest installment on what we learned while building the it-self-service-agent AI quickstart - developers.redhat.com/articles/202.... Great work Linoy!
Guardrails: Enterprise safety shields with Llama Stack | Red Hat Developer
Learn about our team's experience implementing a defense-in-depth safety architecture for AI agents using Llama Stack shields
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The latest post on what we learned while building the IT self service agent AI quickstart covering integration through MCP to ServiceNow - developers.redhat.com/articles/202... @rhdevelopers.bsky.social
3 lessons for building reliable ServiceNow AI integrations | Red Hat Developer
Learn about critical lessons from building an MCP-powered AI agent for ServiceNow, including how to structure testing environments, best practices for implementing safeguards, and a phased approach to
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Next installment in the series on what we learned while building the it-self-service-agent. It's on observability which is a key component of most deployments - developers.redhat.com/articles/202... @rhdevelopers.bsky.social
Distributed tracing for agentic workflows with OpenTelemetry | Red Hat Developer
Learn how to set up distributed tracing for an agentic workflow based on lessons learned while developing the it-self-service-agent AI quickstart. This post covers configuring OpenTelemetry to track
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The #Nodejs project's security bug bounty program is being paused due to the discontinuation of its external funding source 😞 nodejs.org/en/blog/anno...
Node.js — Security Bug Bounty Program Paused Due to Loss of Funding
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Latest post in our series on what we learned building the it-self-service-agent AI quickstart - Eval-driven development: Build and evaluate reliable AI agents developers.redhat.com/articles/202.... Evals were key to being able to make progress without regressions. @rhdevelopers.bsky.social
Eval-driven development: Build and evaluate reliable AI agents | Red Hat Developer
Learn how to build reliable AI agents with our 8-stage evaluation framework. We explore DeepEval, multi-turn testing, and CI/CD integration for Red Hat AI
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4th post in the series on what we learned while developing the it-self-service-agent AI quickstart developers.redhat.com/articles/202... @rhdevelopers.bsky.social
Automate AI agents with the Responses API in Llama Stack | Red Hat Developer
Learn how the Responses API in Llama Stack automates complex tool calling while maintaining granular control over conversation flow for AI agents. Discover the benefits and implementation details
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Slides from my talk at @confooca.bsky.social last week on an introduction to Llama Stack in case you want to catch up - github.com/mhdawson/pre... with examples in @nodejs and Python
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Slides from my talk today at @confooca.bsky.social today on the Crucial role of AI Evaluations for agentic systems - github.com/mhdawson/pre...
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As I get ready for @confooca.bsky.social this week I had some fun with my 3d printer over the weekend. Hope to see you at my talks - confoo.ca/en/speaker/m...
Part three in our series on what we learned building the it-self-service-agent AI quickstart was just published - Prompt engineering: Big vs. small prompts for AI agents - developers.redhat.com/articles/202.... Hope you find it interesting.
Prompt engineering: Big vs. small prompts for AI agents | Red Hat Developer
Explore big versus small prompting in AI agents. Learn how Red Hat's AI quickstart balances model capability, token costs, and task focus using LangGraph
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If you've found the posts on the it-self-service-agent implementation (docs.redhat.com/en/learn/ai-...) interesting, I'll be talking at @confooca in a few weeks using some of what we learned as examples. Hope to see you there.
Second part in our series on what we learned while developing the it-self-service-agent quickstart. Bringing AI into existing communication channels. @tchughesiv.https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/09/self-service-ai-agent-slack-email-servicenow by
AI meets you where you are: Slack, email & ServiceNow | Red Hat Developer
Build a multichannel IT self-service AI agent that maintains session context across Slack, email, and ServiceNow using CloudEvents and Knative for cross-channel automation
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Last week I mentioned the Red Hat quickstarts: docs.redhat.com/en/learn/ai-.... This week is the kickoff of a series covering interesting things we learned developing the it-self-service-agent quickstart. Every two weeks we'll add a post covering a new topic - docs.redhat.com/en/learn/ai-...
Automate IT processes with Self-Service Agents - Laptop Refresh | Red Hat Documentation
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The team I'm on has been working on an AI quickstart for the last little while. Happy that it's just been published along with other quickstarts in docs.redhat.com/en/learn/ai-.... You can read more about the one we worked on in www.redhat.com/en/blog/manu....
AI quickstarts | Red Hat Documentation
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Just finished the first versions of my presentations for @confooca.bsky.social in February - confoo.ca/en/speaker/m... . Looking forward to all of the talks, networking and learning opportunities.
Michael Dawson | ConFoo.ca
FullStack Conference for developers in .
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It's great to see and a you did a great job getting it there!
Marco Ippolito@marcoippolito.dev · 9mo agoType stripping is now stable. Enjoy 🌞
I submitted to be a @confooca.bsky.social speaker. Vote for my proposals! confoo.ca/en/2026/call... #javascript #ai #qa
Michael Dawson | ConFoo.ca
FullStack Conference for developers February 25-27, 2026 in Montreal, Canada.
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The next article in my series on using llama stack with Python - developers.redhat.com/articles/202..., @rhdevelopers
How to implement observability with Python and Llama Stack | Red Hat Developer
Enhance your Python AI applications with distributed tracing. Discover how to use Jaeger and OpenTelemetry for insights into Llama Stack interactions
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Latest installment of my series on using Llama stack with Python - developers.redhat.com/articles/202...
Implement AI safeguards with Python and Llama Stack | Red Hat Developer
Learn how to implement Llama Stack's built-in guardrails with Python, helping to improve the safety and performance of your LLM applications
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Part 2 in my exploration of using Llama Stack with Python - developers.redhat.com/articles/202...
Retrieval-augmented generation with Llama Stack and Python | Red Hat Developer
This tutorial shows you how to use the Llama Stack API to implement retrieval-augmented generation for an AI application built with Python
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If you are interested in Llama Stack and using it from your python applications you might want to check out my exploration of tool calling and agents with LLama Stack in developers.redhat.com/articles/202...
Exploring Llama Stack with Python: Tool calling and agents | Red Hat Developer
Harness Llama Stack with Python for LLM development. Explore tool calling, agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for versatile integrations
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Recording and minutes from the #nodejs Technical Steering Committee meeting today in case you want to catch up github.com/nodejs/TSC/p..., www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKRX...
doc: add minutes for meeting 25 June 2025 by mhdawson · Pull Request #1753 · nodejs/TSC
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We’re deeply saddened to mark the passing of Mikeal Rogers after a courageous fight with cancer. Mikeal wasn’t just a leader in the open source world. He was a connector, a builder of community, and someone who showed up for others in meaningful ways. Thank you, Mikeal 💚 hubs.la/Q03s_C7G0
In Memory of Mikeal Rogers: A Builder of Communities | OpenJS Foundation
It is with deep sadness that we mark the passing of Mikeal Rogers, a leader, builder, and advocate for open source communities and for the people who power them.
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We’re heartbroken by the loss of Mikeal Rogers, a key figure in the Node.js ecosystem and a force behind what makes this community what it is. To help preserve his legacy, we’ve opened a GitHub repo for stories, photos, and memories: github.com/nodejs/mikeal 💚 Thank you, Mikeal. hubs.la/Q03t0DVL0
GitHub - nodejs/mikeal: In light of the the contributions that Mikeal made to Node.js and the larger ecosystem and his recent passing this repository will provide a place for people to contribute thei...
In light of the the contributions that Mikeal made to Node.js and the larger ecosystem and his recent passing this repository will provide a place for people to contribute their condolences and mem...
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Recording from the #nodejs Node-api team meeting today in case you want to catch up - www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eCD...
2025-06-20-Node.js Node-API Team meeting
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Recording and minutes from the #nodejs TSC meeting today in case you want to catch up - github.com/nodejs/TSC/p..., www.youtube.com/watch?v=um3g...
doc: add minutes for meeting June 18 2025 by mhdawson · Pull Request #1750 · nodejs/TSC
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