The Agentic Blame Game
Production is ransonware encrypted. The board wants a head. Let's play.
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BoringOps is the discipline of building infrastructure that behaves predictably. No drama. No heroics. Just systems that work.
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The Steward: Your Engineering Org’s Missing Tastemaker
Architecture has a hum. Someone has to be listening for it.
Clue: Agentic Edition
It was Professor Clawed, in the Legacy Library, with the Hallucinated Import... Or was it?
I Was Negotiating With Infrastructure
Why AI convinces you its mistakes are your fault.
The Most Important Technology of the Next Decade
Every enterprise needs a strategy. Every conference has a keynote. Every consulting firm has a practice. The wins are just about to arrive.
The Old Recession Playbook Is Wrong. Stop Cutting People First.
AI gives CEOs a tool that reduces cost without reducing capability. The ones who still reach for layoffs are choosing last decade's playbook.
The Cathedral and the Budget
Netflix built the most admired infrastructure in tech on the back of infinite growth. What happens when the growth stops and the bill stays?
Amusement Park Infrastructure
You bought all the rides. You forgot the bathrooms.
Fire the CEO
Introducing the AI Executive Officer (AEO) and the A-suite (AxOs).
Why AWS Needs an Old Navy
AWS must split its identity before the market splits it for them.