From the field
Technical insights on cloud architecture, FinOps, AI platform engineering, and leadership from a fractional CTO perspective.
ai-cost · cloud-waste
GPU instances and inference endpoints have reopened the cloud cost problem that FinOps was starting to solve. Governance needs to catch up.
ai-governance · compliance
The EU AI Act is law. High-risk classification triggers concrete engineering requirements. What to build now and what can wait.
agentic-ai · ai
AI agents degrade silently. The observability stack and eval framework that catches drift before users do.
aws · cloud-cost
Cloud spend scales with product success—until it scales faster. A practical framework for cost visibility, accountability, and control.
ai-security · llm
Prompt injection is the SQL injection of the AI era. A defence-in-depth approach to securing LLM integrations in production systems.
ai · lean-startup
Build-Measure-Learn was designed for web products. AI changes the feedback loop, the MVP definition, and the cost of experimentation.
ai · distribution
When the technology layer commoditises overnight, what separates lasting companies from wrappers? Where moats form in the AI landscape.
aws · cross-account
Cross-account IAM gets messy fast. Trust policies, role chaining, and external IDs—done right so you do not create a lateral movement path.
arc · azure
Azure Arc promises unified management across cloud and on-prem. Where it delivers, where it falls short, and how identity governance ties it together.
ai · blue-ocean
AI is creating new market spaces faster than incumbents can respond. How to identify blue oceans using the strategy canvas and six paths framework.
devops · golden-paths
DevOps gave teams ownership. Platform engineering gives them leverage. The distinction matters for how you structure teams and invest in tooling.
incident-response · reliability
Your first major incident will happen. The difference between 20 minutes of downtime and 4 hours is what you prepared before the page fired.
autoscaling · cost-control
Misconfigured resource requests are the top driver of Kubernetes overspend. How to right-size, autoscale, and allocate costs per namespace.
aws · landing-zone
A single AWS account works until it does not. The minimal multi-account structure that protects production without adding overhead.
