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Practical notes on automation, modernization, and building software that survives complexity.
API Security for Network Automation: A Practical Checklist
Network automation APIs are high-value targets. They control infrastructure, hold credentials, and can execute changes across thousands of devices. A compromised automation API isn...
Building Real-Time Dashboards That Scale
Real-time dashboards promise instant visibility into your systems. But "real-time" can quickly become "real slow" when you're rendering thousands of data points, polling aggressive...
Zero-Downtime Database Migrations: Patterns That Work
Database migrations are one of the last places where "just take downtime" still feels acceptable. But for teams operating 24/7 services, even a five-minute maintenance window creat...
Network RPA: Guardrails for Automation You Can Trust
Network automation fails for the same reason most safety incidents happen: not because people are reckless, but because the system is missing guardrails. A script that "worked in d...
Modernize Without a Big Bang: The Strangler Pattern in Practice
The fastest way to lose stakeholder confidence is to stop shipping. That's why "rewrite from scratch" projects so often fail: teams spend months rebuilding what already exists, val...
Building "AI-Agent Capable" Systems: APIs, Guardrails, and Observability
AI agents are most valuable when they can do things: open tickets, summarize incidents, change configuration, schedule jobs, and orchestrate workflows. But "agent-capable" is not a...
Performance Budgets: Shipping Fast UIs That Stay Fast
Most teams don't "forget" performance. They just don't have a mechanism that makes performance regressions visible early. Without that, performance slowly degrades until it becomes...
Incident-Friendly Automation: Designing for Rollback
During an incident, you want speed—but you want controlled speed. Automation should reduce cognitive load, not create a new failure mode responders have to debug while customers ar...
From Lead to Launch: A Lightweight Delivery Model
The best delivery process feels almost boring: small milestones, clear artifacts, visible progress, and no drama. Most teams don't need more process—they need less process, but app...
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