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Introduction

I’m a veteran software engineer with more than 25 years of experience, ranging from coding Unix applications in C to crafting sleek .NET solutions and even blockchain and cryptographic solutions. Along the way, I’ve dabbled in everything from writing Windows drivers to streaming desktops as video feeds, game development, and now I’m exploring gRPC and Google Cloud hosting. When I’m not banging out code, I’m probably wrangling tech quirks or pondering the mysteries of management decisions and direction of technology in general.

 

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Houston, We Have a Process Problem

By Matt Raffel on April 07, 2026

I have been watching the Artemis program with a lot of interest lately. There is something inherently captivating about the sheer scale of returning to the moon—the physics, the hardware, and the high-stakes coordination of thousands of peop...

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