Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes

For the past year, I’ve been hosting the Rust in Production podcast, diving deep into how companies use Rust in their tech stacks. This journey has taught me a lot about what it takes to create and maintain a successful podcast. Whether you’re considering starting your own podcast or just curious about the process, I hope my experiences can offer...

This post offers personal insights on predicting tech trends by observing hackers. It’s based on subjective observations and should be read with critical thinking. If you’re looking for meticulously researched, data-driven analyses, you might want to check out an actual research paper instead! A good way to predict which technologies will be...

Last night I realized that my life is very simple. That’s not by chance, but by conscious effort. Life becomes complex all by itself if you do nothing about it. One day you’ll wake up and you have a mortgage, 10 on-demand subscriptions, 20 insurances, 1000 open browser tabs, a demanding job and a dog. And when you realize it, you wonder how you...

People sometimes ask me how I come up with things to write. To me, it's the same as asking how I come up with things to say. There's always something to say. It might not be novel or interesting to most, but it's important to me and hopefully to someone else. What people actually want to know is how to come up with something interesting to write....

Growing up as a kid in rural Bavaria, I always dreamed of moving to the US to run a startup. Many kids in my generation shared that dream. To me, it felt like the only way to combine my two greatest passions: coding and building things. As I got older, I became disillusioned with the narrative surrounding Silicon Valley. The hockey stick growth,...