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Why Your GPU Fleet Is Both Full and Idle: Building a Capacity Orchestration Layer

Most machine learning (ML) platforms still hand out accelerators through static quotas, spreadsheet-driven approvals, and hallway negotiation. That...
Posted on 9 October 2026 | 1:00 pm

AI on Top of a Dysfunctional System

TL;DR: Polished Artifacts, Unchanged Decisions, Or Ten Backlog Anti-Patterns AI Makes Worse Add AI to a Product Backlog process that already strugg...
Posted on 2 October 2026 | 4:00 pm

From Wild West to Context-Driven Engineering: How Culture Shapes Software Decisions

Software organizations require rules to ensure predictability, knowledge sharing, and sound technical decisions. However, excessive rules, processe...
Posted on 2 October 2026 | 3:00 pm

Can Your Team Name the Work It Already Runs With AI?

TL;DR: The AI Workflow Inventory Finalizes the A3 Delegation System You probably know your own AI shortcuts: the colleague who drafts the stakehold...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 4:00 pm

Three Hidden Traps That Shape Software Engineering Decisions

Software engineering is often seen as a technical field focused on designing systems, writing code, selecting architectures, defining APIs, and opt...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 2:00 pm

Beyond Token Intelligence: Why AI Code Review Needs Cognitive Architectures

A few months ago, I watched a senior engineer spend forty-five minutes reviewing a single pull request — a PR that an AI assistant had generated in...
Posted on 22 September 2026 | 4:00 pm

Architecting Production AI Across Clouds: Patterns That Decide System Survival

Most enterprise AI post-mortems do not blame the model. They blame the storage tier that starved the accelerators, the identity policy that over-gr...
Posted on 16 September 2026 | 3:00 pm

Alert Fatigue as a System Design Problem: Engineering On-Call Reliability in Modern SRE Teams

Once upon a time, site reliability engineering rested on a linear assumption: monitor more, detect early, and you’ll recover faster. The rise of al...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 1:00 pm

Reliability Without Control: Operating SRE Practices in Platform–SaaS and API-Dependent Systems

Originally, back-end and front-end Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) were owned by teams. They code the programs, set up databases and infrastruct...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 7:00 pm

From Agile to the Product Operating Model

TL; DR: The “Agile to the Product Operating Model” Survey Results Between August 2 and August 10, 2026, 48 practitioners participated in my Agile t...
Posted on 17 August 2026 | 3:00 pm

Code Generation Is Solved; Trust Is the Bottleneck

You have a checkout flow. You have 40 tests. They're green. Now: what happens when a payment webhook arrives after the user cancels? What happens w...
Posted on 14 August 2026 | 5:00 pm

Incident Management and the Rise of AI SRE Agents

Over the past year, I've been rebuilding parts of an incident response stack for a client, and the biggest surprise wasn't the AI features themselv...
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 2:00 pm

I Got Tired of Copy-Pasting Microfrontend Boilerplate, So I Built a Bridge

When we started to work on microfrontend migration on one of our projects, the architecture looked great on paper (like always): one host shell, se...
Posted on 10 August 2026 | 4:00 pm

Building Internal Developer Platforms as Products: A Practical Guide for IDP Architects

Why Most Platforms Fail to Become Products Many companies are heavily investing in internal developer platforms (IDPs) with the expectation that th...
Posted on 7 August 2026 | 12:00 pm

AI in SRE: A Practical Autonomy Model for Self-Healing Infrastructure

Most SRE teams do not need another dashboard. They need a safer way to move from "something is wrong" to "we know what to do next." A model that de...
Posted on 29 July 2026 | 5:00 pm

Lift-and-Shift vs. Modernize: A Decision Framework for Enterprise Workloads

One of the most consequential decisions in any enterprise cloud migration is deceptively simple to state and surprisingly hard to answer: do we mov...
Posted on 24 July 2026 | 4:00 pm

One of Waterfall's Most Resilient Artifacts

The waterfall model of software development was formally described in 1970. It was critiqued decisively by the early 1980s. It was officially succe...
Posted on 24 July 2026 | 2:00 pm

The Rise of Agentic SRE: Humans, Agents, and Reliability

Site reliability engineering has always been about reducing toil, improving resilience and helping teams respond to incidents with speed and confid...
Posted on 23 July 2026 | 7:00 pm

Spec-Driven Development Renamed an Old Problem; It Didn't Solve It

Spec Kit, OpenSpec, BMAD, Kiro — all of it is built on the assumption that a spec can stay the source of truth. It can't, for the same reason desig...
Posted on 21 July 2026 | 3:00 pm

Agent Sprawl Is Your Next Production Incident: An SRE Response to Datadog's State of AI Engineering 2026

Datadog published the State of AI Engineering 2026 report— real telemetry from over a thousand production environments. Read it. It is the most com...
Posted on 20 July 2026 | 6:00 pm