Essays (subscribe)

• Asking for Compensation Strategy Changes
• Inside the Cue COVID-19 Test Cartridge
• Space Advocacy
• Preparing a Virtual Conference Talk
• On My Way To Space
• A tale about a Legacy Application and Infrastructure as Code
• Visiting the Duga-1 Radar in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
• My Path to Site Reliability Management
• Magic Mail from David Copperfield
• Flash Cards for Site Reliability Engineers
• IP over Web-avian Carriers
• The Machine That Hires Me
• How To Write A Tiny Shell In C
• UNIX-like processes and the imaginary disco ball
• About Shell And Echo
• Replying To Domain Abuse Mail
• A Concurrency-safe, Iterable Binary Search Tree
• Go Contain Me
• IPv6 Workshop
• Looping AIs (Siri, Alexa, Google Home)
• Building an encrypted travel wifi router

Bio

Dan Luedtke is an engineering leader who served his country, worked as IT security consultant, wrote a book about IPv6, built an autonomous system from scratch and dreams of space travel. Dan has lived in Munich, London and the San Fracisco Bay Area. As a Site Reliability Engineer Dan operates Google's global network load balancer Maglev. Outside of work he is on a mission to build an off-grid, low energy house in the Santa Cruz mountains. Dan has been awarded the noble title Duke of Principality of Sealand in exchange for a domain name. Dan's one time attempt at making art went viral.

Talks

• Implementing Distributed Consensus
  Virtual SREcon20 Americas; Dec 2020
• Implementing Distributed Consensus (Workshop)
  SREcon19 EMEA, Dublin, Ireland; Oct 2019
• Magic Mail
  Write The Docs, Prague, Czech Republic; Sep 2019
  
• Implementing Distributed Consensus
  SREcon19 Asia/Pacific, Singapore; Jun 2019
• IP over Web-Avian Carriers (IPoWAC)
  35C3, Leipzig, Germany; Dec 2018
• Implementing Distributed Consensus
  Site Reliability Engineering Meetup, Munich, Germany; Dec 2018
• How we un-scattered our DNS setup and unlocked new automation options
  SREcon18 Europe, Düsseldorf, Germany; Aug 2018
• SREMUC Launch Event and SREcon18 Americas Recap
  Site Reliability Engineering Meetup, Munich, Germany; May 2018
• Human-friendly DNS powered by Golang
  Gophers Meetup, Munich, Germany; Aug 2017
• Design Jam, Holo Lense Prototype “QRreconstruct”
  Design Jam Meetup, Munich, Germany; Apr 2017
• Founder Institute Survival Guide
  Founder Meetup, Munich, Germany; Mar 2016
• sixfw - thinking ipv6 first
  32C3, Hamburg, Germany; Dec 2015
• ratools 2014 field test
  V6 World Congress, Paris, France; Mar 2015
• ratools and NAT64 on the 31C3 congress network
  31C3, Hamburg, Germany; Dec 2014
• Introducing ratools for Linux
  IPv6-Kongress, Frankfurt (Main), Germany; May 2014
• The Lanyard Filesystem
  29C3, Hamburg, Germany; Dec 2012
• IPv6 an der UniBwM (German)
  IPv6-Kongress, Frankfurt (Main), Germany; May 2012
• SSL/TLS and the BEAST attack
  UniBw, Munich, Germany; Apr 2012
• Oops! Webshop Hacking
  UniBw, Munich, Germany; Jan 2012