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Digital My investor readiness and due diligence service page has a line: “A separate question is how self-contained the product is; behind the interface there is sometimes somebody else’
Security I work from Dubai Airport Free Zone, and in the article on fintech I wrote that the region’s rules add up to “constraints that must shape your cloud-region choice before the first line of code, not after.”
Digital I run AI agents with access to my site and infrastructure: they edit and publish articles, clean up the media library, rebuild reports, and log into servers over SSH. This article is about where the boundary
Digital The page for my Data Analytics and BI service has a rule: no dashboards until the metric definitions are agreed. Otherwise the argument about numbers simply moves to a new screen. Below is where that rule
Digital I wear a Sinocare iCan i6 continuous glucose monitor (inside the app it is called t6). A new sensor started behaving oddly: current readings reached the phone, but the sensor refused to hand over its history.
Digital The moment a cluster gets its third node, the question of distributed storage comes up almost immediately, and it usually sounds like Ceph or ZFS. In the Proxmox interface Ceph installs in a few clicks
Management The OODA loop comes from the American fighter pilot John Boyd: observe, orient, decide, act. It is usually retold as “cycle faster than your opponent”. What interests me in it is something
Security This is an article about a secrets store I have built and not yet opened. The deployment pipeline is finished, all five share holders have passed the rehearsal, and the initialisation ceremony, after which
Digital What belongs in front of your services is not the fastest reverse proxy but the one whose defaults you are willing to live with for three years. Defaults, not feature tables, decide what happens to you
Digital Most companies that ask me about Kubernetes do not need a Kubernetes cluster. That is the first thing I say on the call, and half of those conversations end there, to everyone’
Digital An employee left a laptop in a taxi on Friday evening. The machine goes into lockdown from the panel, which also shows whether disk encryption is on and where the device was last seen, and the decision
Digital With a dozen servers, the state of the estate lives in an administrator’s head. With hundreds of them spread across providers, hypervisors and containers, infrastructure fleet management stops being