Steven De Coeyer

Organizations are constrained by human and systems-level problems.

Geopolitics is driving infrastructure decisions: with the US no longer seen as a reliable partner, European organizations are actively reducing dependency on American cloud providers and US-controlled software.

Yes, I’ve enjoyed the ride from ops/sysadmin to devops to SRE.

Maybe that’s the whole point: you don’t need to justify having your own corner of the internet beyond “I like having my own thing”.

I’ve always liked how Daring Fireball did this.

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