Journal
Opinions & LessonsDraft
Building Shogunet: My Journey into Cloud and Cybersecurity Engineering
Why Shogunet exists, what it will document, and the principles behind building in public.
James Houlder1 min read
Draft. This article is an outline and will be expanded before publication.
Why start a publication?
Notes on the motivation for documenting hands-on work publicly — learning in the open, holding myself to a standard, and building a useful reference for others.
The name
Shogun + Network. Discipline, strategy and resilient infrastructure.
What the Journal will cover
- Cloud engineering with Microsoft 365 and Azure
- Network design and segmentation
- Defensive security and identity
- Linux, infrastructure and open source
Principles
- Document what actually happened, including what went wrong.
- Prefer proportionate solutions over impressive ones.
- Show the working.
What comes next
To be written.
- #career
- #cloud
- #security
- #shogunet
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