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Karsten Samaschke

Independent perspectives from a serial entrepreneur, architect, educator, and technology enabler, connecting systems, strategy, sovereignty, and business value.

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Hayate Agents That Dial Out Did Not Notice a Dead Connection

A Hayate Agent that dials out to its dashboard could sit on a dead connection and still report itself connected. A change this morning makes the dashboard's pings the agent's pulse: no ping for 90 seconds, and the agent hangs up and reconnects, without replaying any request that was in flight.

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Remote Hayate Agents Needed an Open Inbound Port

Until Sunday, a central dashboard could only manage a remote Hayate Agent by reaching an HTTPS listener on the agent's machine. Now the agent can dial out over WSS instead. Why opening that socket still grants no permission to run work, why a dropped request reports 'outcome unknown' instead of running twice, and what a load test showed about a 30 ms test sleep.

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Point of view

Technology is never only technical.

AI-native and cloud-native systems change more than architecture. Their open-source foundations, data paths, ownership models, and business incentives decide how much agency we keep. I examine those connections without vendor theatre.

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On stage

Speaking about infrastructure that matters.

Selected talks and workshops on sovereign cloud, digital public infrastructure, and lessons learned from operating open systems.

SOVCAP Workshop: Capacity Building on Cloud Computing

Running Sovereign Cloud Stack Cluster for International Telecommunication Union: Lessons Learned

Digital Public Infrastructure: Government Clouds Based on Open Source

CAPI vs. ClusterStacks: The Better Is the Enemy of the Good

ESG 2.0: ESG, AI, and the Journey to Profitability and Success

About

Built from practice, not sidelines.

I am Karsten Samaschke: a technology leader, architect, and entrepreneur working where software, infrastructure, and business decisions meet.

  • Technical leadership and product strategy
  • Cloud-native and open-source systems
  • AI adoption with privacy and control in view
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