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Based on a LinkedIn post originally published on 9 March 2026 While working for a bank in New Zealand, we operated a fleet of mid-range servers running SunOS and Solaris, ranging from SunOS 5 through Solaris 9. These systems supported important workloads, so their boot architecture, storage resilience and recoverability were operational concerns rather than implementation details. One of the strengths of the Sun environment was its flexible boot and disk architecture. When configured correctly, a server could boot from different storage devices without depending permanently on one specific internal disk. This flexibility eventually led us to ask a deceptively simple question: Once reliable SAN storage was available, why should the servers retain local boot disks at all? The original local-disk model Before the SAN migration, each server contained its own internal disks. A basic boot structure could exist on each disk, while the remaining disk capacity was protected through SunOS softwa...

Based on a LinkedIn post originally published on 8 March 2026 One lesson from several years working in German technology organisations is that hierarchy, defined responsibility and orderly execution can carry considerable weight. This should not be reduced to a stereotype about every German company or team. Organisational cultures differ significantly, and international technology businesses frequently combine several working traditions. Nevertheless, I repeatedly encountered environments in which following the agreed process was valued more consistently than proposing an unsolicited alternative. If someone’s default working mode is to receive a defined instruction, execute it precisely and avoid changing the direction without explicit authority, such an environment can feel clear and comfortable. If someone is naturally inclined to examine the surrounding system, question assumptions and propose a different approach before being asked, the same environment may experience that behaviou...

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Based on a LinkedIn post originally published on 6 March 2026 In the early 1990s, long before network connectivity became an ordinary assumption, I worked with Xenix systems in an environment where conventional local-area network infrastructure either did not exist or was not economically accessible. We still needed the machines to exchange information. So we built a network using the resources available to us: serial cables, Xenix servers and UUCP. The result would appear primitive when compared with a modern Ethernet network, but it provided the capabilities the environment required: files could be transferred between systems; messages could be exchanged; processing jobs could be submitted to other machines; and information could propagate across several independently operating servers. In effect, we created a small distributed system before that terminology became part of everyday technology discussions. The system did not depend on permanent connectivity. It depended on every mach...

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Based on a LinkedIn post originally published on 3 March 2026 Since 2019, Germany has represented a major chapter of my life. I have lived in several countries across different parts of the world, always initially as a foreigner. In each place, I had to navigate unfamiliar institutions, establish legal residence and learn how to function within a new society. Every country has administrative processes. Immigration, taxation, healthcare, employment and civil registration cannot operate without rules, documentation and formal decisions. What differs is how those systems are experienced by the person interacting with them. My experience in Germany has been uniquely intense—not necessarily because every individual process is unreasonable, but because the cumulative presence of formal administration can become part of everyday emotional life. Governance is not experienced only through laws and institutions. It is experienced through letters, appointments, forms, deadlines, interfaces and t...

 

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Based on a LinkedIn post originally published on 2 March 2026 After several years of building and leading technical teams across different countries, I reached a point in my career when I wanted to make my next direction explicit. I remained interested in senior technology leadership, particularly across Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure and Security. At the same time, I was deliberately reopening a path toward hands-on systems work, including C++ and lower-level engineering. At first glance, these directions may appear contradictory. One moves toward broader organisational responsibility; the other moves closer to source code and system behaviour. I do not see them as opposites. Technical leadership is strongest when strategic judgement remains connected to an understanding of how systems are actually built, operated and changed. A career across several layers of technology My professional experience has never been confined to a single layer of the technology sta...