Marcus Rath
Steinstraße 45
70794 Filderstadt
Germany

I work in enterprise IT infrastructure and spend most of my time designing, operating, and troubleshooting systems across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

I hold Microsoft certifications including MCSE in Cloud Platform & Infrastructure and Productivity and was a Charter Member of the program. I’m also part of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program.

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The main aim of this blog is to use it as my own knowledge base and to provide useful resources for my readers. In the past and still today I mainly use the open source software MediaWiki as a private knowledge base. Initially it was designed strictly confidential and not open to the public.

Publishing some of these articles here also allows me to share the material publicly with others who might find it useful.

What started as a small collection has gradually evolved into a technical blog containing hundreds of articles covering infrastructure, virtualization, cloud, networking, storage, security, and hybrid IT environments.

Working out the posts in this way means I need to dive deeper into the topics than I would if I were just writing notes for myself. That brings a strong learning effect: every article requires research, testing, and troubleshooting, which not only helps clarify the subject for readers but also continuously sharpens my own skills and understanding.

Most articles on this blog are written while working through real infrastructure topics in my lab or in day-to-day work. Writing them down helps me understand things better and hopefully they are useful for others dealing with similar systems.

My goal is simple: to create the kind of technical documentation I would personally like to find when searching for answers at 2 a.m.

Too often, technical articles assume prior knowledge, skip important details, or omit the reasoning behind certain decisions. The result is that you end up opening multiple browser tabs and piecing the solution together from several different sources.

With matrixpost, I try to take a different approach by creating complete, step-by-step guides that not only show what to do, but also explain why it works, including the pitfalls, troubleshooting steps, and lessons learned along the way.

My aim is not simply to provide answers, but to provide enough context so that readers can understand and reproduce the entire solution without having to search elsewhere.

Today, AI and large language models have become excellent tools for quickly finding answers, exploring ideas, and troubleshooting individual problems. I use these technologies myself on a daily basis.

However, complex infrastructure topics often require more than isolated answers. In many cases, you still need to piece together information from multiple prompts, conversations, and sources before arriving at a complete solution.

AI can answer questions. A good technical article tells the entire story.