Day two of ;#QConLondon! Starting liveskeet a bit late so not covering the beginning of @martin.kleppmann.com's keynote about geopolitical tech resilience (because USA is shitshow rn). Three topics: - Multicloud - Atproto - Localfirst For multicloud, key thing is making it easy to switch
Hillel is on Social Media Break
Hello from #QConLondon! I am going to liveskeet as much as I can while very, very jetlagged. Right now we are going through conference intro and "how to attend a conference". Gotta be a couple of thousand people here
Mar 17, 2026 at 9:34 AM
QCon London 2026: Kleppmann on Mitigating Europe's Cloud Dependency with Local-First Software
Europe is completely dependent on US cloud services, Martin Kleppmann told QCon London. His fix: commoditise everything. He walked through three technologies he's helped build: multi-cloud via de facto standards, Bluesky's AT Protocol for social media, and local-first software for collaboration, all designed to make switching providers trivial and shift power back to users.
Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto
Martin Kleppmann discusses the urgent need for technological sovereignty in modern infrastructure. Exploring the shifting landscape of global tech dependencies, he shares how engineering leaders can leverage multi-cloud architecture, de facto API standardization, the AT Protocol, and local-first development paradigms to reclaim user agency and build highly resilient systems.
The past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
The past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
Anatomy of a Franco-German tech misfire
As Europe debates how far to go in pivoting away from US Big Tech, a cloud initiative provides a cautionary tale.
Launching a Cloud Atlas
The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.
Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.
We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.
Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.
We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.
Local-First Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure: Create, Collaborate, and Publish Without the Cloud
Some initial atproto-related learnings from #Rebuild Helsinki 🇫🇮 * most people building apps here have no idea what atproto is, which is a shame since especially when building social apps, atproto is a great starting point for many reasons
ooh nice my talk got posted! this is a 30 min whirlwind introduction to atproto through a technical lens, basically building up the stack from DIDs -> repos -> PDSes -> relays -> lexicons -> OAuth -> applications
FediForum
Have you ever wondered how #ATProto actually works? This presentation by Daniel Holmgren from #FediForum should answer your questions in 30 minutes. spectra.video/w/mDnE8FbYh1PXiaCPxsniGQ /cc @dholms.at
wrote a blog post about a 2015 keynote by @mikecaulfield.bsky.social that stuck with me and how it relates to atproto. with AtmosphereConf right around the corner I wanted to get this (and my next one) out there so it could contribute to the conversation. would be honored if you'd give it a look :)
Garden and the Stream - thoughts
ezras-thoughts.leaflet.pubInteresting conversation exploring the future of atproto sustainability!
JP
I want people to be comfortable paying for an atproto account (ie. space on a PDS) It’s the bedrock of everything we’re building; if it’s not funded it’ll get squeezed in ways that are bad for users (hi Gmail) We should normalise having (very cheap) paid-tier PDS accounts on the services we build
reminder that the inaugural ATP (atproto) working group meeting will be taking place soon! we are scheduled for the Thursday of #IETF126. you can register and participate remotely. if you have a topic you want to discuss, reply to the chairs on the mailing list; this is roughly final call
Internet Engineering Task Force
The FINAL AGENDA for the #IETF126 Vienna meeting hosted by @cisco.com has been published! It includes 100+ working sessions, an #IETFHackathon, and more planned for 18-24 July. Register today to participate with 1000+ Internet technologists from around the world: ietf.org/meeting/126/
Local-first ATProto
Projects who combine local first paradigm with open social. This collection is to shape thinking together with UX experts early in the process.
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Creative Computing Institute
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