I think it's fair to be frank and say that the internet has largely gone to shit. The rise of the attention economy and influencers, the dumpster fire that is X/Twitter, AI clickbait and subpar Medium posts - I find it rather difficult to find great articles by brilliant thinkers. These folks seem to be … Continue reading The Rise of Substack or: The Return to a Better Internet
The reinvention of the ‘Member of Technical Staff’
If you've checked the LinkedIn page or a conference talk of any engineer at Anthropic, OpenAI etc., you've surely stumbled over their somewhat unusual job title 'Member of Technical Staff (MTS)'. What's the motivation to move on from the well-established 'Software Engineer'? I've heard some arguments towards removing the seniority from the title, but that's … Continue reading The reinvention of the ‘Member of Technical Staff’
On the CKAD exam
I've just finished the exam to become a 'Certified Kubernetes Application Developer' (CKAD), which was a fun and insightful experience. The CKAD is the mid-difficulty exam out of the 5 certifications required to become a Kubestronaut. Ranging from easiest to hardest, these are KCNA, KCSA, CKAD, CKA, CKS. If you've already been working with k8s … Continue reading On the CKAD exam
Using Frontier Models for Cybersecurity
Anthropic is continuing its rise by providing not only the arguably strongest frontier model with Opus 4.6, but more importantly by shifting the SOTA of AI-based software development with Claude Code. In its most recent addition focused on security, they partnered with Mozilla to investigate the latest Firefox release. After all the dust had settled, … Continue reading Using Frontier Models for Cybersecurity
The dehumanizing side of AI
To me, the best summarization of the current dangers of generative AI comes from the fantastic Ted Chiang in his essay in the New Yorker: The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to … Continue reading The dehumanizing side of AI
Fourth day at Kubecon London 2025
Clarifying CRA compliance in Cloud Native Eddie Knight and Michael Lieberman did a great job at making regulatory topics interesting and tangible; they spoke about the upcoming EU Cyber Resilience Act, which will come into effect over the next 2-3 years and applies to so-called 'product with digital elements'. Starting 2027, vendors/manufacturers of these products … Continue reading Fourth day at Kubecon London 2025
Third day at kubecon London 2025
Keynotes Hans Kristian Flaatten and Audun Fauchald Strand from Norway treated us to some great insights from their journey in providing a central kubernetes platform for the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration, starting back in 2018. After maturing this platform and succeeding in supporting a great number of application teams, they stepped up to deliver … Continue reading Third day at kubecon London 2025
Second day at kubecon London 2025
I've had a great second day at KubeCon (first proper day after yesterday's co-located events), and thought I'd share some of the impressions. Keynotes The day started with an impressive sets of keynotes in an even more impressively-sized auditorium. There are around 12,500 people attending KubeCon Europe this year, and it felt like most of … Continue reading Second day at kubecon London 2025
Kubecon 2025: first impressions
I'll be attending KubeCon 2025 in London this week, and made the resolution to write down some of the impressions. Tuesday, co-located events The first day of KubeCon was about the co-located events (see schedule), and this 'slow' kickoff was already a blast. I attend mostly the one-day ArgoCon, but switched a bit back and … Continue reading Kubecon 2025: first impressions
New role as AI engineer for Alan
I'm thrilled to say that I'm returning to Comma Soft to work on our enterprise AI chat solution 'Alan'. It's a pleasure to reunite with old friends and colleagues which I value immensely, and also to meet so many new and inspiring people. The tech stack at Alan aligns superbly with my background and my … Continue reading New role as AI engineer for Alan
Daniel Lenz 