cedi / brutforce

👋 Cedric Kienzler - @cedi

Hi, I'm cedi.

I’ve done everything wrong the first time so you don’t have to. Trust me, I’m an engineer.

I work as a Senior Software Engineer at @Microsoft Azure. I am interested in distributed systems, site reliability engineering, and just generally working at large scale.

I am involved in somme stuff at the Chaos Computer Club where I led the Network Team at GPN for two years and I help with the builtup, planning, and a million other things at various events trough the year, most notably the Chaos Communication Congress at the end of every year. During the pandemic - when the in-person events where unable to happen - I helped to build online services like jitsi.rocks, open-infrastructure, or the rC3 - NOW HERE.

In my sparetime I love playing around with Kubernetes, Raspberry Pis, and various other technologies. I have a small Cluster of Pis at home, running K3s. I also have KubeOne cluster running in the Cloud, which I use to explore more about Kubernetes.

I’m also a passionate photographer and have a small collection of analog cameras in 35mm as well as 120 medium format which include a Leica M6 and a Hasselblad 500 c/m. What makes my analoge photography even more fun is, that I develop my film myself at home where I have a small dark-room and even a enlarger for 35mm film.

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What's important to me?

• Be excellent to each other
• Focus on the fundamentals rather than fancy cutting-edge stuff
• Get your good damn service reliability hierarchy right

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• Alert on symtoms rather than vitals
• There is no singular root-cause to your incidents - complex systems fail in a complex way
  • How Complex Systems Fail
• Your beloved "system" or "infrastructure" only exists in your head!

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• Incidents are a good thing! They gauge the delta between how you imagened your systems behaves versus how it actually works