Moved from Germany to Japan in Autumn 2000 and since 2002 working in a large enterprise environment in the IT department. That means: servers with 2 CPUs and 256GB RAM, 10G Ethernet, storage systems the size of a rack.

In private life I prefer the smaller side: Arduino, Orange Pi, wireless routers, Bluetooth, also using cloud computing (AWS, GC), Docker and all the software development practices like CI/CD, Unit Testing, TDD etc.

The magic is to combine those two totally different worlds and find...I can't find a better word than "synergies", and there are surprisingly many.