From Bureaucracy to Enablement: What DevOps Can Teach Us About Tackling Global Challenges

Why solving complex, interconnected problems requires better coordination, shared infrastructure and less organisational friction.

· 13min · Michiel V.
From Bureaucracy to Enablement: What DevOps Can Teach Us About Tackling Global Challenges

Beyond the Friction: How OpenTelemetry and Prometheus Converged

A deep dive into how OpenTelemetry and Prometheus resolved key architectural friction points, covering scrape health, semantic conventions, UTF-8 metric names, and native OTLP ingestion.

· 9min · Michiel V.
Beyond the Friction: How OpenTelemetry and Prometheus Converged

From Mythical Months to Unicorn Days: A Full-Stack Theory of Engineering

Thoughts on the books I've read through 2025.

· 7min · Michiel V.
From Mythical Months to Unicorn Days: A Full-Stack Theory of Engineering

Building SLOAK: A Case Study in Testable Go Architecture

Evolving the standard go project layout to a hexagonal/layered testable structure.

· 6min · Michiel V.
Building SLOAK: A Case Study in Testable Go Architecture

From Dockerfiles to Zero-CVE

Breakout session on building more secure containers

· 2min · Michiel V.
From Dockerfiles to Zero-CVE