MCMartin ChristenTechnology & Advisory

Technology lab

Technical curiosity.
Put into practice.

A private environment spanning on-premises and cloud infrastructure, maintained to stay close to modern engineering and security concepts.

Infrastructure & platforms

Exploring the relationships between deployment, configuration, workload boundaries and dependable operations.

Linux / Unix · Cloud · Virtualisation · Containers · Kubernetes

Security & identity

Examining segmentation, trust decisions and certificate lifecycles as parts of a coherent security architecture.

Firewalls · Network security · Zero Trust · Identity · PKI

Operations & resilience

Considering how signals, authentication and recovery mechanisms support systems that remain understandable in operation.

Monitoring · Observability · Automation · Mail security

AI & data

Exploring AI infrastructure and the implications of connecting models to information, identities and actions.

Local models · AI agents · Data protection · AI governance

IoT & edge

Investigating how device discovery, connectivity and security boundaries interact in mixed environments.

Home automation · Connected devices · Network isolation

Lab notes

Questions from the engineering side.

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Short technical notes on evaluation approaches and architecture patterns, without publishing private configurations or infrastructure details.