Hi there , I'm Kai! I work as a solution architect in enterprise and cloud environments. The past years I've been focusing on bringing enterprise workloads with a PaaS-first approach into Azure cloud. To unwind I figure out tooling and cloud infrastructure challenges:
- WebAssembly on the Back End
- Being an Individual Contributor in an enterprise's Information Technology division
- Automating Azure VM Ubuntu install without fancy tools
- Taking Spin for a spin on AKS
- How to tune Dapr bulk publish/subscribe for maximum throughput
- Comparing throughput of Azure Functions vs Dapr on Azure Container Apps
- Get NeoVim plugins with build processes working on Windows
- Azure VM based on CBL-Mariner with Nix package manager
- Share NeoVim configuration between Linux and Windows
- Private linking an Azure Container App Environment (May'23 update)
- Private linking and port forwarding to non-Azure resources
- Automate VS Code extensions setup across profiles
- How ZEISS uses Wasm in Enterprise - livestream with Fermyon
- KubeCon EU 2024 Keynote on Revolutionizing Cloud Native Architectures with WebAssembly
- Microsoft Ignite 2022 - ZEISS Digital Integration platform aka ESB - in German incl. Ask the experts
- Dapr Developer Day China September 2022 - Why we used Dapr
- Microsoft Build May 2022 - Deploy modern containerized apps and cloud native databases at scale
- Dapr Adopters Panel Oct 2021
- Dapr customer testimonal as part of Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture with Mark Russinovich
- Microsoft Build May 2019 - Windows Containers on Service Fabric
- Microsoft Ignite Sep 2018 - API Management with peace of mind
I listen to or watch these shows or follow these posts to stay up-to-date in technology and context surronding technology. Ordered by frequency I manage to follow closely on newest eposides.
- The AI Daily Brief
- Hanselminutes Podcast
- .NET Rocks
- Software Engineering Podcast
- The Craft Podcast
- The Rabbit Hole: The Definitive Developer's Podcast
- Security This Week Podcast
- Sudo Show Podcast
- The talks of Gregor Hohpe resonate very well with me and how I see my role when taking on the Enterprise Architect hat
- Susanne Kaiser : Adaptive Socio-Technical Systems with Architecture for Flow
- also Scott Hanselman's point of view on personal productivity - 2020 and - 2012 has elements I strive for
- Using Azure private links and private DNS zones with globally distributed resources
- Getting started with access lifecycle on Azure Resources with PowerShell
- Azure Functions on Service Fabric
- Setting secrets when hosting Functions runtime in a container