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There’s a reason why DevOps is one word. The reason is that it’s one team: a DevOps team that is accountable for both development and operations. Over the past decade I’ve seen a lot of companies doing DINO: DevOps in name only. Sure: there’s a Kanban-board with colorful sticky notes (or if you’re lucky teams […]

I finally got my Miles Davis tattoo. He was missing on my inked ‘music arms. And whilst the needle scribbled up and down my skin, I thought about my favorite album. It’s probably the weirdest album ever made: Bitches Brew, rightfully subtitled ‘directions in music by Miles Davis’. It’s acclaimed to be one of the […]

(originally published in December 2019) IT is all about cycles. Let me illustrate that from my own experience. I’m in the business now for over twenty years. When I started off, the big thing was – really – mainframes or a-like systems. Big iron that could contain multiple workloads. One of the first big projects […]

Every encryption specialist must have heard about Enigma, an encoding machine already developed in the twenties by a company called Chriffriermaschinen AG but mostly known by the use of the Nazi’s during World War II. Eventually, after almost six months of hard work Alan Turing and his team managed to crack the code used by […]