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Field notes from building AI systems, securing them, and running the infrastructure underneath — written by the engineers who do the work, not a content team.
Cyber Security · 6 July 2026 · 8 min read
Zero Trust, in practice: beyond the buzzword
The perimeter is dead, but most architectures haven't noticed. What Zero Trust actually means in practice — identity over network location, mTLS and microsegmentation — and how to roll it out without buying a box.
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Getting quantum-ready: a practical migration to post-quantum crypto
Harvest-now-decrypt-later has already started the clock. Crypto-agility over any single algorithm, hybrid ML-KEM key exchange, and finding the cryptography you can't see.
4 July 2026AI & LLMs · 5 min read
Evaluating LLMs before they reach production
Demos lie. A practical method for building eval sets from real tickets, gating model changes in CI, and knowing when to fine-tune.
2 July 2026Enterprise · 8 min read
An enterprise AI adoption playbook that survives contact with reality
Enterprise AI fails when it starts with a model, not a number. The data gate, evaluation before rollout, trust as an operational property, and killing the zombies.
30 June 2026Cloud & Infra · 8 min read
Kubernetes without the bill shock: cost and reliability together
Most Kubernetes bills are high because every default over-asks. Right-sizing from real usage, autoscaling that survives spot, per-team cost visibility — and whether you need Kubernetes at all.
27 June 2026Cloud & Infra · 4 min read
The case for ticket-based managed hosting
Autoprovisioning optimizes for the provider. Why putting an engineer between you and the infrastructure produces better outcomes.
24 June 2026Cyber Security · 8 min read
Securing the software supply chain: SBOMs, provenance, and signing
Your dependencies are the attack surface now. SBOMs you can query at 2am, SLSA provenance and signing, and what SolarWinds and the xz backdoor actually teach.
20 June 2026DevOps · 7 min read
SLOs over dashboards: observability that drives decisions
Dashboards show everything and decide nothing. SLIs tied to user experience, error budgets as a shared language, and alerting on symptoms not causes.
17 June 2026AI & LLMs · 6 min read
RAG systems that survive contact with real data
Retrieval quality beats model size. Chunking as a product decision, citations as a guardrail, and the one metric that matters.
12 June 2026Blockchain · 8 min read
Blockchain beyond the hype: where distributed ledgers actually pay off
A decade of pilots died quietly for a reason. The honest three-part test for when a distributed ledger earns its cost — and why the answer is usually Postgres.
9 June 2026Blockchain · 8 min read
Smart-contract security: auditing what money runs on
Immutable, transparent, adversarial, and directly monetised — a threat model almost nothing else shares. Reentrancy, oracle manipulation, upgradeability trade-offs, and why passing tests proves almost nothing.
5 June 2026Enterprise · 8 min read
Platform engineering: paving the road for your teams
Golden paths, not golden cages. Why cognitive load is the real budget, treating the platform as a product with users — and when you shouldn't build one at all.
2 June 2026