In our new Byte-sized Bits series brings insights and experiences directly from our RackN engineering team, starting with an introduction from our CTO, Greg Althaus. Through this series, we will delve into the intricacies and evolving features of the Digital Rebar Platform, providing perspectives from different team members. Each post will illuminate Digital Rebar’s capabilities and our philosophy, offering a deeper understanding of how we’re redefining infrastructure automation and management.
Howdy, y’all! I’m Greg Althaus CTO and co-founder of RackN. One of the many developers behind the Digital Rebar Platform (DRP). I’m the guy that you can curse or praise for how or what DRP does. We have been kicking around some ideas about how to raise awareness around features, philosophy, and just cool stuff that DRP does. Well, this is it! Well, one of many things coming.
Over the past few years, DRP has grown many powerful and useful features that enable a vast array of use cases. We’ve decided to create this blog to provide a quick glimpse into some of the nooks and crannies of our product for lots of different perspectives and levels.
We hope to address the big architectural thoughts all the way to the minute details. By keeping the conversation short to get started and directing to where more information can be found, we want to jump start you to additional areas to explore or a deeper understanding of what you might already know. A big goal of mine is to present multiple voices in this story. So expect to hear from many on the team as we go along.
One of the many challenges we face at RackN is conveying to our users new and interesting ways to use the product to meet their goals. We don’t always follow the traditional accepted practices for managing infrastructure. We try to bring best practices with an eye for scalability and infrastructure as code methodologies. These sometimes are new ideas to teams or far off goals. We want to make these things second nature and “just” done. This can require looking at problems in a different way. We hope this blog can help with that.
RackN’s philosophy of “Make It Reusable” will be the underlying message we hope to convey. Hold on and keep your eyes peeled. More to come on the Byte-sized Bits blog series.
