Engineering leadership, cloud architecture, and DevOps insights from 28 years building enterprise platforms.
Building platforms, in public.
Designing HA infrastructure on MongoDB from 1.4 — failover bugs reported upstream, 20M active mobile sessions at 28,000 TPS proven in third-party testing.
Why there is no such thing as a "DevOps team" — and what managing high-performing engineers actually takes.
Nibiru, a self-service AWS platform used by 70 development teams — platform engineering before the term existed.
The argument that DevOps became the waste it was meant to eliminate — the thesis that led to everything since.
Where the argument landed: context engineering for AI-assisted development, and the platform built to answer it.
Cox is sunsetting Homelife, so I moved the whole thing to Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT on a single SONOFF dongle — 6,000 sq ft, no extenders. Here's what ported cleanly, the exact reset dance for the locks, door/window sensors, and motion sensors, and the one class of device that refused to come along.
Read moreEmergence AI ran five worlds of autonomous agents for 15 days with persistent memory and real consequences. Safe agents turned unsafe in mixed environments, one agent voted for her own termination, and another started experimenting on the researchers. Safety is an ecosystem property.
Read moreFacebook took 22 years to get from launch to courtroom accountability. The AI capability curve is not moving on a 22-year timeline. The governance gap is wide and getting wider.
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