Field notes on doing it well.
Occasional writing on cloud migration, security, infrastructure, and the quiet craft of keeping systems running.
Introducing Rune: a WYSIWYG editor with zero dependencies
We wrote our own rich-text editor — headless, configuration-driven, and free of ProseMirror, Slate, and build steps. Here is why we built it, and how to try it.
ReadWhat 'managed' actually means
Most 'managed services' watch a dashboard. Real managed operations means someone is accountable for the outcome at 3am — with the runbooks and SLOs to back it.
ReadAutomation that earns its trust
Automating operations is easy; automating them safely is the whole job — guardrails, reversibility, and knowing which calls a machine should never make alone.
ReadSegmentation is the cheapest security you are not buying
Before the next appliance, draw the boundaries. Segmentation turns a single compromise from a free run of the estate into a contained, observable event.
ReadThe case for owning your own iron
Cloud is the right default, not the right answer for everything. For some workloads the economics, latency, and control of a well-run data center still win.
ReadBuild, buy, or don't
The most valuable engineering decision is often the feature you choose not to build — a simple test for when bespoke software earns its keep.
ReadZero-trust is a posture, not a product
You cannot buy zero-trust in a box. It is a set of decisions about identity, access, and assumption-of-breach — expressed in architecture, not a purchase order.
ReadThe migration customers never noticed
Zero-downtime cloud migration is less about clever tooling than about sequencing, rehearsal, and the discipline to prove every wave before starting the next.
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