4/3/26
I'm writing this note while waiting for our flight to the UK, where we hope to establish our fourth Vault site, this time in the UK. I'm traveling with two young men who will be doing much of the heavy lifting, and our Chief Architect will be joining us a bit later.
Read about our Vault UK update:
https://www.sermonaudio.com/news/the-vault-uk-update
4/1/26
CANADA IS BACK.
We lost connectivity to our Vault in Canada for 24 hours due to a failed SFP to RJ45 transceiver. After spending time hunting down and isolating the problem, we replaced it with a spare we (thankfully) already had on-site and everything came back up!
4/1/26
Major electrical work happening all day today to upgrade our voracious power needs at The Vault HQ. It’s a big job involving replacing all existing wiring to a higher gauge. We’re going to do our best to keep disruptions to a minimum.
4/1/26
A behind-the-scenes look at the engineering of the live webcasting architecture on SermonAudio—covering Kubernetes orchestration, real-time transcoding and segmenting, global load balancing, and the failover strategies that keep streams online when everything goes wrong.
Mike Furtney is a veteran computer scientist and University of Waterloo graduate who serves as Chief Architect of The Vault at SermonAudio, where he designs and oversees the systems responsible for the long-term preservation and delivery of millions of sermons.
