Splitting Light Season 1 Episode 3 one ring to connect them all If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe It was now time to qualify the last critical element in the hardware set. It needed to be done quickly as we wanted to send the manufacturing order as soon as possible. I was tasked with accomplishing that last qualification. The rest of the team was already working full time on the next generation of hardware. This seemingly simple task thought to only take me...
13 days ago • 3 min read
Splitting Light Season 1 Episode 2 Stealth mode If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe The C1 server which I was able to start the operating system with, was part of a bigger device. You could not use it without other devices. Either you plugged it into a “test bench” which you used to be able to test and develop the device or you plugged it in another set of hardware. That specific hardware was actually what made it very interesting. The small credit sized C1...
20 days ago • 3 min read
Splitting Light Season 1 Episode 1 Seed stage If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe This crazy multi year adventure started in 2013. It started on August 19, 2013. The cloud industry was still nascent. AWS was seven years old, Azure was five years old but not Azure yet, and GCP was one year old. On that day, I replaced a friend of mine, Manfred, in his position at Online.net’s laboratory, so that he could bootstrap Scaleway with a team of twelve people. The...
27 days ago • 2 min read
SymbolSled Season 1 Episode 00 Splitting light - Introduction If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe What if growth and scaling wasn't just for startups? What if it also applied to the humans that work and create those startups? This is the premise of my story. Intertwined with the cloud industry I will take you for a walk, showing you the path I took. How I had to grow, to scale myself, to pivot and after a hard crash to reinvent myself. Come, follow me in this...
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