About

I’m a (ex-) Google trained SRE. Familiar with operating and building large and distributed applications (Borg in Google, Kubernetes in (GKE) and outside Google). This includes traffic management, observability and automation.

As a long time Linux (Debian) user (kernel version 1.2, March 1995) I’m fluent in shell, system management and various computer languages. Most of my current projects are written in Go.

I have expert knowledge of the Domain Name System and created various software projects and Internet RFCs: RFC 7328, RFC 7129 and RFC 6781.

The following projects are created by me:

• An advanced DNS package.
• CoreDNS a flexible and fast DNS server written in Go.
• A PKCS11 interface for Go.
• ldns a C library to easily interface with the DNS.
• mmark a markdown parser for writing books and Internet-Drafts for the IETF (also see https://author-tools.ietf.org/ and this RFC).

See my GitHub page for various other project, like my ZSH prompt and some half backed ideas.

I can be found as @miek@mastodon.cloud on mastodon.

Website⌗

This website is a personal blog where I post articles on topics that interest me. It is managed by Hugo. The DNS is served by CoreDNS sndns, which is managing the DNSSEC signing of miek.nl zone.