Exploring the frontiers of cloud engineering, DevOps, AI infrastructure, and modern operations.
Run /context in your next Claude Code session before you type anything. Look at the breakdown: system prompt, tool definitions, MCP schemas, CLAUDE.md, memory files. That's your idle spend. You're...
Open a fresh Claude Code session in one of my client repos and run /context. Before I type a single word, tens of thousands of tokens are already spent. Most of that is MCP tool definitions: a GitHub...
In March I shipped Awesome DevOps AI, a curated list of AI tools, agents, and resources built for DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering. The first version had 100 entries. Sixty days later it has...
A client called me at 11:47 PM on a Tuesday. Their staging environment was on fire. Not literally. A Lambda was retrying a request to a third-party API on every cold start, the API was rate-limiting...
A founder I know left a Claude Code agent running on a refactoring task at 11 PM. The task was a 22-file cross-cutting rename. Nothing exotic. He went to sleep. At 7 AM he woke up to a $3,412 token...
A Claude Code agent without hooks is an intern with sudo. It will not be malicious. It will be confidently wrong about rm -rf, git push --force, or terraform destroy. You will find out at 2 AM. Hooks...
Cron expressions are the most ubiquitous and least readable string in DevOps. Three decades of muscle memory and most engineers still pause for 10 seconds when they see 0 9 1 1-5. This guide is for...
GitHub Actions billing has four moving parts most teams underestimate: minutes, OS multipliers, matrix expansion, and artifact storage. They compound. The bill arrives at the end of the month and...
CLAUDE.md is the agent's onboarding doc. It is the difference between an agent that asks where db.ts lives every session and an agent that opens it and reads it. I have been writing these for 14...
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard that lets Claude Code and Claude Desktop talk to external tools, databases, browsers, and APIs. The protocol is good. The config files are where teams...
Half my consulting calls this quarter started the same way: "We have been on the OpenAI SDK for two years. Leadership wants to evaluate Anthropic. What does the migration actually look like?" This is...
NAT Gateway is the single largest hidden line item on most AWS bills under 50K a month. It is not because the per-unit pricing is bad. It is because the pricing has two components that compound and...
A Postgres database that performs well in development and falls over in production is almost always missing an index. The same five-mistake list shows up in every audit. They are easy to find, easy...
Every API price comparison you read uses a price-per-million-tokens number. That number is correct, and it is also misleading. Because the same prompt does not become the same number of tokens across...
I ran the same 30 production-shaped tasks through GPT-5 (via Codex CLI) and Claude Opus 4.7 (via Claude Code, 1M context, native plan mode). Same prompts. Same repos. Same machine. Same network. Same...
In the last 90 days I sat down with 12 engineering teams who had rolled out Claude Code, Cursor, or both at company scale. Series A through public, four to two hundred engineers, US and EMEA. The...
Over the last 30 days I ran Claude Code as the primary pair-programmer across seven concurrent projects spanning consumer mobile, backend services, trading automation, personal web, networking,...
Two months ago I published a post about the 71 free browser-based AI and DevOps tools I built. It got way more attention than I expected. Thousands of developers started using them daily. The most...
What if Claude Code wasn't just a coding assistant, but an entire agile team? An analyst who gathers requirements. A product manager who writes PRDs. An architect who designs systems. A scrum master...
There are hundreds of Claude Code plugins now. Most of them add a few slash commands and call it a day. Superpowers is different. It's a complete software development methodology that turns Claude...
Vibe coding changed how I build software. Instead of typing every line, I describe what I want and an AI agent writes it. But here's the thing nobody talks about: the quality of your prompt...
In the last few months, system prompts from every major AI tool have leaked onto GitHub. Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, Devin, Replit, Lovable, v0, all of them. Repositories like...
You've probably tried using ChatGPT or Claude to write Terraform. Maybe you pasted an error message and got back confident-looking code that made things worse. Or you asked it to "create an AWS VPC"...
Over the past 6 months, I've watched the DevOps AI landscape explode from a handful of experimental tools to an overwhelming ecosystem of 500+ products, agents, and frameworks. Every week there's a...
"Should I fine-tune or use RAG?" I've been asked this question 47 times in the past 3 months. Every time, the person asking thinks they need fine-tuning. About 90% of the time, they actually need...
You're halfway through pasting your 50-page architecture document into ChatGPT when it stops responding. Or Claude gives you an error: "Your message exceeds the maximum context length." Or you get...
Last month, a Fortune 500 company's internal AI chatbot started leaking employee salary data. The cause? A simple prompt injection attack that took 8 seconds to execute. The attack looked like this:...
Every week I watch developers paste production secrets into random websites to decode a JWT, estimate token costs by doing math in a spreadsheet, and pay $20/month for a prompt testing tool that...
OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant with over 224,000 GitHub stars. It runs on your own machine, connects to any LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Groq, Mistral, Ollama,...
I've spent over a decade building and scaling systems, leading engineering teams, and staying ahead of every technological shift this industry has thrown at us. Cloud computing, DevOps, Kubernetes,...
I have been using Claude Code every day for over a year to build infrastructure, write Terraform, debug Kubernetes manifests, and ship production code faster than I ever thought possible. This is the...
DevOps in 2026 is unrecognizable from five years ago. CI/CD pipelines are self-healing. AI agents are writing and reviewing Terraform. Platform engineering is a real discipline, not a rebranded ops...
The intersection of artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure is no longer a futuristic concept -- it's the new reality of DevOps engineering. As someone who has spent over a decade building...
Operations controls are the backbone of any secure, well-governed AWS environment. But manually writing Service Control Policies (SCPs), IAM policies, Config rules, and compliance checks across...
What if your infrastructure could detect problems, diagnose root causes, and fix itself -- all before an engineer even gets paged? This isn't science fiction. It's what I've been building using...
You've started using Claude Code for infrastructure work. You know it can generate Terraform, write CI/CD pipelines, and debug Kubernetes manifests. But are you getting the best output? The...
Technical interviews follow patterns. Once you understand the structure, you can prepare systematically instead of hoping for the best. Here's what I've learned from both sides of the interview...
The AWS CLI is the foundation of any cloud engineer's toolkit. It lets you manage AWS resources from your terminal, automate tasks with scripts, and integrate AWS operations into CI/CD pipelines....
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is one of the most practical AI patterns for real-world applications. It combines the knowledge-retrieval capabilities of search systems with the natural language...
AIOps -- Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations -- applies machine learning to the massive volumes of data generated by modern infrastructure. The goal: automate detection, diagnosis, and...
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After 10+ years of building on AWS and Azure across financial services, government, and enterprise, here are the real lessons I've learned about cloud transformation -- what works, what doesn't, and...