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Technical insights on cloud architecture, FinOps, AI platform engineering, and leadership from a fractional CTO perspective.
AI Spend Is Making Cloud Waste Trend Up Again
GPU instances and inference endpoints have reopened the cloud cost problem that FinOps was starting to solve. Governance needs to catch up.
February 11, 2026
EU AI Act Compliance: What Engineering Teams Need to Build Before the Deadline
The EU AI Act is law. High-risk classification triggers concrete engineering requirements. What to build now and what can wait.
January 20, 2026
Agentic AI Observability: What to Measure So ‘It Works’ Doesn’t Become ‘It Drifted’
AI agents degrade silently. The observability stack and eval framework that catches drift before users do.
December 5, 2025
Mastering AWS Costs: A CTO's Guide to FinOps
Cloud spend scales with product success—until it scales faster. A practical framework for cost visibility, accountability, and control.
July 11, 2025
Don’t Let Your AI Talk to Strangers: Securing LLM Prompts
Prompt injection is the SQL injection of the AI era. A defence-in-depth approach to securing LLM integrations in production systems.
June 11, 2025
Lean Startup in the AI Age: What Still Works, What Breaks, What Replaces It
Build-Measure-Learn was designed for web products. AI changes the feedback loop, the MVP definition, and the cost of experimentation.
February 2, 2026
Zero to One in the AI Era: Moats Shift From Tech to Distribution, Data, and Workflow
When the technology layer commoditises overnight, what separates lasting companies from wrappers? Where moats form in the AI landscape.
February 2, 2026
Cross-Account Access Without Regret: Patterns That Don’t Become a Security Incident
Cross-account IAM gets messy fast. Trust policies, role chaining, and external IDs—done right so you do not create a lateral movement path.
December 18, 2025
Azure Hybrid Reality: Where Arc + Identity Governance Pays Off
Azure Arc promises unified management across cloud and on-prem. Where it delivers, where it falls short, and how identity governance ties it together.
November 20, 2025
Blue Ocean Strategy in the AI Age: Where Uncontested Markets Form
AI is creating new market spaces faster than incumbents can respond. How to identify blue oceans using the strategy canvas and six paths framework.
October 15, 2025
Platform Engineering Is Not DevOps Rebranded: What Changes When You Build an Internal Platform
DevOps gave teams ownership. Platform engineering gives them leverage. The distinction matters for how you structure teams and invest in tooling.
September 8, 2025
Incident Response for Startups: What to Have Ready Before the First Page
Your first major incident will happen. The difference between 20 minutes of downtime and 4 hours is what you prepared before the page fired.
August 14, 2025
Kubernetes Cost Control: Requests, Limits, and the Traps That Inflate Bills
Misconfigured resource requests are the top driver of Kubernetes overspend. How to right-size, autoscale, and allocate costs per namespace.
March 25, 2025
Multi-Account AWS for Startups: The Smallest Landing Zone That Prevents Big Mistakes
A single AWS account works until it does not. The minimal multi-account structure that protects production without adding overhead.
January 12, 2025