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Hard-won lessons from real engagements. No thought leadership fluff, only things we've built, broken, and fixed.

Infrastructure Jan 18, 2026 8 min read

Why your Terraform state is a liability (and what to do about it)

State management is where most IaC strategies quietly fall apart. We walk through the patterns that survive production.

AI Dec 4, 2025 12 min read

RAG in production: lessons from 20 enterprise deployments

Retrieval-augmented generation sounds simple in tutorials. Here's what actually breaks when you deploy it at scale.

Platform Nov 15, 2025 10 min read

The internal developer portal nobody asked for (and everyone needed)

How we built a self-service infrastructure layer that cut deployment time by 70% for a 200-engineer organization.

Security Oct 22, 2025 9 min read

Zero-trust networking without the vendor lock-in

A practical guide to implementing zero-trust principles using open-source tooling and cloud-native primitives.

Consultancy Sep 30, 2025 6 min read

The architecture review checklist we use on every engagement

Thirteen questions we ask within the first week. The answers determine the entire trajectory of the project.

Kubernetes Aug 14, 2025 11 min read

Multi-cluster Kubernetes: when it makes sense and when it doesn't

Not every organization needs multi-cluster. Here's a framework for making the decision with your team.

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