About

This is TheGreenCodes - a space where engineering decisions get written down honestly.

You'll find articles on distributed systems, infrastructure platforms, and the problems that appear when standard architectures meet non-standard constraints: air-gapped deployments, licensed software distribution, multi-tenant IaaS, event-driven systems at the edges where documentation runs out. Occasionally, research. Sometimes the African context that reframes what "production-ready" actually means.

The writing is for engineers who've moved past tutorials and want to understand why a decision was made - and what it cost.

Who's writing this

I'm Marvin - a Senior Platform & Backend Engineer.

I build distributed systems that turn infrastructure complexity into products. Recent work includes a hypervisor-agnostic IaaS marketplace, a Flatcar Linux-based infrastructure solution for immutable and air-gapped enterprise deployments, and event-driven backend systems running across multi-tenant environments.

I'm also doing graduate research on geospatial modeling of Foot and Mouth Disease in Kenya - a different kind of systems problem.

I care more about outcomes than technology fashion. You will find that bias in the writing.

Get in touch Twitter / X · LinkedIn · GitHub Or directly: hello@marvinkweyu.net

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