Platform engineer. Eleven years inside Australian banks, telcos, and government. Currently thinking (and writing) about what deterministic orchestration should actually look like. Sydney.https://bsky.app/profile/rorychatterton.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/rorychatterton.com/post/3ml5dl7thxs27"Forward Deployed Engineer" is what you call a solutions engineer when you want fewer women to apply.05 May 2026 23:27 +0000at://did:plc:65addetiwszyud3soixhmnjp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5dl7thxs27https://bsky.app/profile/rorychatterton.com/post/3mk7jevhsf22qthe state of hifi in 2026: world-class class-d amplification for lunch money, or a kidney for the same thing with a dolby sticker on it. open source saved every codec except the ones in my rack.24 Apr 2026 02:50 +0000at://did:plc:65addetiwszyud3soixhmnjp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7jevhsf22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/rorychatterton.com/post/3mk2gc626bk2iEarly platform job at a Tier 1 Australian bank. Someone drops 60,000 backup tapes on my desk and asks which to destroy. Guess how many could be attributed to an actual service or owner. A decade later, I wonder if they're any closer to answering that problem?22 Apr 2026 02:12 +0000at://did:plc:65addetiwszyud3soixhmnjp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk2gc626bk2i