Writing

Engineering notes from cloud, DevOps, SRE, and AI platform work.

I write to make engineering judgment reusable: operating models, best practices, tradeoffs, and the patterns that make platforms easier to trust.

Platform engineering

How I think about building a cloud platform operating model

A practical model for reliability, delivery speed, IAM, observability, and cost ownership.

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Platform engineering Observability Cost IAM
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Terraform

Terraform best practices I keep coming back to

Patterns for state, modules, reviews, naming, and repeatable infrastructure delivery.

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Terraform Infrastructure DevOps Best practices
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Observability

Observability foundations for platform teams

How to move from dashboards to signals, ownership, and reliable incident response.

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Observability Platform engineering SRE Monitoring
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AI infrastructure

Practical infrastructure foundations for AI teams

Governed environments, scalable compute, artifact paths, cost controls, and deployment foundations.

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AI infrastructure MLOps Governance Compute
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AI Ops

AI Ops trends to watch in 2026

Practical shifts in model observability, reproducibility, governance, and cost-aware lifecycle.

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AI Ops MLOps Observability Governance Cost
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FinOps

Cloud cost optimization patterns for 2026

Autoscaling economics, spot strategies, and telemetry-driven rightsizing to control cloud spend.

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FinOps Cost Autoscaling Telemetry
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Kubernetes

Kubernetes security priorities for 2026

Supply chain hardening, RBAC least-privilege, and runtime protection approaches.

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Kubernetes Security Policy Runtime protection
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MCP Skills

Build MCP skills for AI assistants

Practical guidance for designing, validating, and integrating custom AI assistant skills.

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MCP AI infrastructure Developer productivity Prompt engineering
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Open source AI

Run AI models locally with OpenLLM

How to use OpenLLM and open-source tooling for local model inference and experimentation.

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Open source Local AI OpenLLM AI models
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