Hi, I’m Enrique
Engineer, triathlete, and latte dad working in the Cloud Native space. I write about open source, engineering, life and the occasional overlap between building systems and endurance sport.
Five years later
March 2026 The last post on this site is from 2020. A few things have changed since then. I stopped writing because life got loud. My children were born, and the years that followed were hard—the kind of hard that reorganises your priorities without asking. You learn quickly that responsibility doesn’t wait for ideal circumstances. That period changed me more than I expected. Not just as an engineer, but as a person. Parenting demands a different kind of attention. You slow down. You develop patience you didn’t know you needed. You find out what you’re actually made of, day after day. And despite all of it, there’s nothing more rewarding than raising little humans. ...
Project Quarks
Project Quarks March 2020 The following is a compilation of some thoughts and technical knowledge I have gathered since the inception of project Quarks back in 2018. The idea behind project Quarks is merely to containerize CF(Cloud Foundry) in a native container application approach. If you are familiar with CF or Kubernetes, the following might be of your interest. Concepts Kubernetes is the tool of choice in the Cloud Industry for deploying platforms, see k8s. ...