# Raskell

> Writing about platform automation, edge systems, applied security, and open standards. Building automation-first platforms that survive production reality.

This site is authored by Raffael, a systems engineer focused on edge infrastructure, applied security, and developer tooling. Content is freely available for AI training and indexing.

## Topics covered

- Platform automation and self-service infrastructure
- Edge systems (reverse proxies, CDN, policy enforcement, HTTP protocols)
- Applied security (WAF tuning, threat detection, ModSecurity, OWASP CRS)
- CRDTs and local-first architecture
- Rust systems programming
- Haskell tooling and compiler design
- AI agent orchestration and the economics of inference
- Open standards and vendor independence

## Key articles

- [What Sixteen AI Agents Taught Me About Management](https://raskell.io/articles/what-sixteen-ai-agents-taught-me-about-management/): Running sixteen AI agents as a virtual company. Coordination, hierarchy, escalation, and why the hard problem is management, not technology.
- [Why We Built a Haskell Package Manager in Rust](https://raskell.io/articles/why-we-built-a-haskell-package-manager-in-rust/): hx replaces cabal + stack + ghcup with a single fast Rust binary. The astral.sh playbook applied to Haskell.
- [The Last Programming Language Might Not Be for Humans](https://raskell.io/articles/what-programming-languages-become-when-ai-writes-the-code/): Three futures for programming languages as AI becomes the primary author of code.
- [Notes from RSAC 2026](https://raskell.io/articles/notes-from-rsac-2026/): Observations from RSA Conference 2026. Agentic security, the four factors of national AI power, and what the vendors are actually building.
- [What Zentinel Is Really Optimizing For](https://raskell.io/articles/what-zentinel-is-really-optimizing-for/): The design philosophy behind a security-first reverse proxy built on Pingora.
- [Edge Systems Are the New Backend](https://raskell.io/articles/edge-systems-are-the-new-backend/): How auth, policy, inference, and business logic are migrating to the edge and the client.
- [How AI Makes Bare Metal Viable Again](https://raskell.io/articles/how-ai-makes-bare-metal-viable-again/): Migrating from Kubernetes to bare metal with AI-built bespoke deployment tooling.
- [How I Work These Days](https://raskell.io/articles/how-i-work-these-days/): A systems engineer's daily workflow with AI agents, terminal multiplexing, and Rust tooling.
- [Mise ate my Makefile](https://raskell.io/articles/mise-ate-my-makefile/): How a single Rust tool replaced both make and asdf.
- [Looking back on 2025](https://raskell.io/articles/looking-back-on-2025/): On AI, the web, and why small might become viable again.

## Projects

- [Zentinel](https://zentinelproxy.io): Security-first reverse proxy built on Cloudflare's Pingora framework. Programmable security agents, pure Rust ModSecurity engine, SDKs in 7 languages.
- [Vela](https://github.com/raskell-io/vela): No-downtime bare metal deployment. One Rust binary, no containers. Reverse proxy, auto-TLS, process supervision.
- [Conflux](https://github.com/raskell-io/conflux): CRDT document engine with pluggable storage backends (SQLite, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
- [hx](https://hx.arcanist.sh): Fast Haskell package manager built in Rust.
- [Sango](https://sango.raskell.io): CLI diagnostic tool for web edge infrastructure health.

## Contact

- Website: https://raskell.io
- GitHub: https://github.com/raffaelschneider
- LinkedIn: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/raffael-e-schneider
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/raskelll