Essays on software, infrastructure and independence.
I write about the parts of software that outlive the frameworks: infrastructure you own, systems you can reason about, and what happens to software now that machines read it too.
Long pieces, published when they are ready rather than on a schedule.
What does it take today to build a cloud platform? From Docker Compose and K3s to a platform that composes existing providers instead of replacing them.
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The platform for independent cloud.
An open-source platform for deploying applications on European cloud providers (Hetzner, Scaleway, OVHcloud and others). A vendor-neutral manifest format (flui.yaml) and a curated app catalog. No lock-in. AGPL v3.
I am a software engineer who has been building enterprise architectures in finance since 2014, working mostly on the application layer with both feet in the infrastructure under it.
I am building Flui, an open-source platform for deploying applications on European cloud providers — which is also the reason most of these essays exist.