Notes from production.
What our teams learn shipping AI and product systems that have to survive contact with real users, real data and real audits. No thought leadership — field notes.
OpenStack in 2026: when a private cloud beats the hyperscalers
The honest decision matrix: sovereignty, flat heavy workloads, cost at scale — and the operational commitment OpenStack demands before it beats the default.
What an exit-ready handover actually contains
ADRs, runbooks, on-call notes, IaC in your accounts — and a rehearsed drill: could your team run this without us? Why handover is in the definition of done.
Jun 2026
Trunk-based delivery with an AI pair: what changed in our review gates
Agentic tooling collapsed the mechanical middle of our changes. The review gates stayed exactly where they were — and that is the point.
May 2026
Cloud cost is an engineering metric. Treat it like latency.
Cost is a runtime property of your system, like latency. Put budgets in CI, right-size every sprint, and give cost to the team that owns performance.
May 2026