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:

📕 Latest Blog Posts

LinkedIn

• 40 years at the computer
• Me and the 486 - a tiny personal story on being bold
• WebAssembly on the Back End
• Being an Individual Contributor in an enterprise's Information Technology division

dev.to

• Challenging n8n AI Agent with a personal productivity flow
• Dipping into Dapr Agentic Workflows
• Inject NixOS into an Azure VM with nixos-anywhere and Azure Container Intances
• 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

📹 On Stage

• 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

How do I stay up-to-date?

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.

for my main technological focus Azure

• John Savill's Azure Infrastructure Weekly Update
• Azure DevOps Podcast
• The Azure Podcast

⚖️ outside the bubble - not only Azure, not only pure technology

• 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

🤯 How do I reflect on my work or how would I like to shape my work?

• 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

💤 Archive

• 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

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