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Now

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This page is inspired by Derek Sivers’ /now page movement . For my general background, see /about ; for my current gear, see /uses .

Location

Saarland, Germany — Living and working from the southwest corner of Germany.

Work & Focus

Senior Developer Advocate at Akamai — Helping developers build high-performance distributed systems, serverless architectures, and edge-native applications.

Projects & Open Source

Fermyon Spin — Authoring plugins, templates, and developer tooling for the WebAssembly framework.
SpinKube — Running WebAssembly workloads natively alongside containers in Kubernetes.

Writing

Building Serverless Applications with WebAssembly & Spin — My comprehensive book is out now on Leanpub and Amazon .
Technical Articles — Deep-dives on Rust systems programming, Wasm components, and cloud infrastructure here on my blog .

Life & Training

Strength & Fitness — Focusing on consistent barbell and strength training at least three times a week while keeping nutrition dialed in.

Uses

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I tinker and update my setup frequently. If you have questions about any specific tool, feel free to reach out @ThorstenHans .

Hardware & Workstation

2026 MacBook Pro 14" (M5 Max, 64 GB, 2 TB) - daily driver for engineering and writing
2025 MacBook Air 13" (M4, 24 GB, 512 GB) - personal notebook
ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen8 (i7, 16 GB, 1 TB) - my Omarchy machine
2024 iPad Air 11" (Light Purple) - reading papers, sketching architectures, and travel
iPhone 18 Pro Max (Black, 256 GB)
Apple Watch Ultra 2 - fitness and training tracking
AirPods Pro 3 & AirPods Max - daily calls and deep-focus audio
ZSA Voyager (Black) - ergonomic, low-profile split mechanical keyboard
Logitech MX Master 3 - precision scrolling and navigation
2x LG 4K 27" Displays - dual-monitor desk setup

Software & Development

Hugo - static site generator powering this blog
Zed & neovim - primary code editors for Rust, Go, and web projects
Preferred Editor Themes:
- Osaka Jade
- Catppuccin Mocha
- SynthWave ‘84
- Rosé Pine
Fonts: Monaspace Krypton and Dank Mono
Terminal: Ghostty with tmux and oh-my-zsh
Shell Prompt: Starship - fast, cross-shell prompt built with Rust
Productivity: Notion for engineering notes and Apple Reminders for tasks
Music: Team Apple Music 🎶

Audio & Studio

Shure MV6
2x Sonos One SL
Apple HomePod Mini

Travel & Gear

Evergoods CTB 26
DJI Osmo Pocket III

About

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Hello, my name is Thorsten, and I live in Saarland — the most beautiful state of Germany. I work as a Senior Developer Advocate at Akamai , where I help developers build high-performance, distributed systems for the edge.

Hello 👋🏼

I’m a Docker Captain and a WebAssembly enthusiast who thrives on pushing the limits of WebAssembly and Edge Computing. These days I focus on cloud-native and serverless application architectures built with containers and WebAssembly — contributing to projects like Spin and SpinKube . Before that, I spent years deep in Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.

Books

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What You’ll Learn

Fundamentals of Serverless Wasm: Understand the WebAssembly Component Model, WASI, and how Spin powers modern microservices and serverless workloads.
Spin Idioms & Application Design: Master core idioms and project structures to write idiomatic, high-performance Spin applications with Rust.
State & Cloud Integrations: Connect to key-value stores, relational databases, outbound HTTP APIs, configuration variables, and distributed components.
Component Composition: Assemble and compose reusable WebAssembly components.
Testing & Tooling: Run unit tests, end-to-end integration tests, and automate your build pipelines.
Deployment Flexibility: Build your Wasm binary once and ship it across environments — from Akamai Functions to Kubernetes clusters running SpinKube.
Extending Spin: Author custom templates, develop Spin CLI plugins, and implement bespoke triggers.
Production Hardening: Harden your deployments with security best practices, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), and signed OCI artifacts.

Available Editions

Leanpub : Digital edition with DRM-free PDF and EPUB files, plus free access to all future updates and revisions.
Amazon US : Physical Paperback and Kindle eBook editions.

International Amazon Stores

Looking for Amazon in another country? You can find the paperback and Kindle editions in your regional Amazon store:

Contact

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I’m more than happy to connect. Just drop me a line.

Legal Disclosure

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Contact Information

Telephone: 0151 46680872

E-Mail: thorsten.hans@gmail.com

Internet address: https://thorsten-hans.com

Graphics and Image Sources

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Disclaimer

Accountability for content

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Speaker Bio

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Talks & Publications

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Conference Highlights

With more than 300 public talks on software development related topics, it’s tough to keep a complete list up to date. Here are some of my personal highlights and stages I’ve contributed to:

Pages on Thorsten Hans

Now

Location

Work & Focus

Projects & Open Source

Writing

Life & Training

Uses

Hardware & Workstation

Software & Development

Audio & Studio

Travel & Gear

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About

Hello 👋🏼

Books

What You’ll Learn

Available Editions

International Amazon Stores

Contact

Legal Disclosure

Contact Information

Graphics and Image Sources

Disclaimer

Accountability for content

Privacy Policy

Search

Speaker Bio

Talks & Publications

Featured Topics

Conference Highlights