Intro

Hi! I'm bert hubert, and I am an entrepreneur & software developer. I sometimes contribute to science, I care a lot about innovation, biology & health. I'm a proud shareholder of Open-Xchange, the parent company of PowerDNS which I founded in 1999.

I can be contacted on bert@hubertnet.nl or via Twitter @PowerDNS_Bert.

Some notable publications & presentations:

• 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room
• The galmon.eu GPS/Galileo/GNSS monitoring project
• GPS, Galileo & More: How do they work & what happened during the big outage?
• Modern C++ for C Programmers: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
• Hello DNS: an introduction to DNS, including reference implementations
• Spectre & Meltdown: tapping into a CPU's subconscious thoughts
• DNA: The code of life (Blog, with links to two hours of video)
• '(Don’t) drop the hint: communicating with technical people'
• Optimizing optimizing: some insights that led to a 400% speedup of PowerDNS
• How about some actual innovation: Inventing the transistor and landing a nuclear robot on Mars
• Interview at Startup Grind Rotterdam, on business, startups and innovation (with video)
• 'Escaping the data center - tales from a recovering manager', NLNOG Day 2015. Video, slides

Note: All recent publications/posts can be found here.

You can find more in the sections on linked from the top of this page.

Possibly relevant: Linkedin, PowerDNS Twitter, Non-PowerDNS Twitter, DNA Twitter, Blog, Old blog, PowerDNS Blog, Medium, GitHub.

Some older links can only be found on the old version of this page.