Ben KollerVita
Tech Lead Infrastructure
@Stylight
Co-Founder & CTO
@KEMB
DevOps Lead
@Talentry
Co-Founder & CTO
@maiot
Building: @ZenML
Current
Engineering Manager
@Personio
No way around it: I am what you call an “Ops guy”. In my career I admin’ed more servers than I’ve written code. Over twelve years in the industry have left their permanent mark on me. For the last two of those I’m exposed to a new beast - Machine Learning. My hustle is bringing Ops-Knowledge to ML. These are my thoughts on that.
Read more...Immutable Infrastructure describes the separation of infrastructural state and application. Consecutive deployments spin up unique and explicitly defined infrastructure instead of replacing application artifacts on already existing infrastructure.
Read more...Already a while back I got introduced to my current employer: Talentry. They, and thus me, try to make employee recommendation the #1 recruiting source. It’s a mission easy to align with as I strongly believe in it. Luckily, so do other companies, as the customer base proves. In the past months growth fell upon Talentry, and the platform’s infrastructure became due to an overhaul. This is where I step in. Along the way I’ll shed some light upon projects and organisational developments. Parts might be left out, parts will be intentionally vague, nonetheless the lessons learned will prevail.
Read more...I worked in multiple companies in my live. I saw reasonable high evaluations of eight digits and more. I’ve had ample opportunity to examine organisational voodoo, and surely you have seen incomprehensible things happen in companies, too. Great design decisions, good management styles, innovative IT architecture, and all their negative counterparts. Growth advice will be my section to talk about the trapdoors of growing a business, and how to avoid them.
Read more...TL;DR: Stylight, a company I used to work with, runs a number of VPCs in multiple regions, and only partial interconnectivity existed. After adding a set of new VPCs in 2015 for services that require a stable and performant interconnection a new solution was required. We used VyOS and the AWS VPNs to pull it off.
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