The Raw Power of the Computer

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Computers matter.” Say it today and you provoke scarcely any dissent — and scarcely any notice. Too self-evident, too obvious. Yet what we mean by it is no longer what one would first suspect.

I am not speaking of the computer as typewriter, as gateway to the internet, as screen for streaming services. I am speaking of a quality that borders on the provocative: the union of what one nowadays calls a personal computer with a system like Linux. Of a certain measure of rawness.

Kubernetes, or: The inevitable paradigm shift

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I have worked in this industry long enough to recognise how the end of an epoch feels.

It does not begin with a bang. It begins with a sensation. An inkling that what you have done for years is not wrong — but no longer enough. That the tools which carried you through the hardest nights have reached a boundary you cannot cross through diligence alone.

I am speaking about infrastructure. About servers. About the way we operate software. And about Kubernetes — the tool that has changed not only a technology but a mindset.

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The Raw Power of the Computer

Kubernetes, or: The inevitable paradigm shift