This was my personal blog that I abandoned ~10 years ago in favor of a corporate blog. I am reviving it and continue where I left off.
This blog has focused a lot on technology and syslog-ng particular and that is something I don't want to change. I work a lot on home automation these days so I expect that to creep in.
It's difficult to explain a decade in a blog post but a few items follow that I consider noteworthy:
* syslog-ng became pretty successful as a commercial offering while still keeping the open source version in shape. In this 10 years the project produced 23 major syslog-ng releases with lots of new stuff open source first.
* Balabit a company has grown to 250+ employees EUR 20m+ revenue and was eventually sold to a US company called Quest/One Identity in 2018
* I left Balabit a year and a half later in 2019, the company behind syslog-ng, the one I was a founder of.
syslog-ng is still thriving and is gaining momentum. This is true for both the open source project and the commercial offering (at least that's what I hear from ex colleagues).
I am pretty fortunate that even though I sold my stake in Balabit I can keep my hobby: syslog-ng. And this is because of open source. In a way I am becoming an external contributor to a project I was once the corporate herald for. Neat, eh?
Now, enough rambling, it's pretty late. Blogging is on!
This blog has focused a lot on technology and syslog-ng particular and that is something I don't want to change. I work a lot on home automation these days so I expect that to creep in.
It's difficult to explain a decade in a blog post but a few items follow that I consider noteworthy:
* syslog-ng became pretty successful as a commercial offering while still keeping the open source version in shape. In this 10 years the project produced 23 major syslog-ng releases with lots of new stuff open source first.
* Balabit a company has grown to 250+ employees EUR 20m+ revenue and was eventually sold to a US company called Quest/One Identity in 2018
* I left Balabit a year and a half later in 2019, the company behind syslog-ng, the one I was a founder of.
syslog-ng is still thriving and is gaining momentum. This is true for both the open source project and the commercial offering (at least that's what I hear from ex colleagues).
I am pretty fortunate that even though I sold my stake in Balabit I can keep my hobby: syslog-ng. And this is because of open source. In a way I am becoming an external contributor to a project I was once the corporate herald for. Neat, eh?
Now, enough rambling, it's pretty late. Blogging is on!
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