Ah, Amsterdam. Bustling capital of the Netherlands (no, The Hague is not the capital, it’s just the seat of government) and its most populous city with one million inhabitants (the entirety of the Netherlands has a population of about 17 million).

2022 was a very exciting year for vcluster. If you’re unfamiliar with vcluster, it’s an open source tool for creating and managing virtual Kubernetes clusters. Virtual clusters are lightweight and run in a namespace of an underlying host cluster but appear to the users as if they’re full-blown clusters.

My career in tech started out with PHP & Web development. I think I was an ok engineer, I could learn new concepts and languages given some time, but I just never really had a burning passion for the frameworks and technologies I was using.