Connection refused" has three different root causes here's how to tell them apart with evidence
Connection refused" and a silent timeout look like the same failure to whoever's paging you at 2am. They're not. They come from different layers of…
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Context Is a Platform Capability Now
Watch a developer start an agent session on real enterprise work and you will see a ritual. Before the first useful prompt, they gather. They paste…
I Wrote Thirteen Posts Looking for the Line Between DevOps and AI Governance. There Isn't One.
Thirteen posts ago I went looking for a seam. Somewhere between the pipeline work I did for twenty years and the AI governance work I do now, there…
'Governance is a developer experience problem': a Docker Captain reframes AI-agent trust
You handed the agent your CI credentials. You handed it your registry token. Then you asked why nobody in security will sign off on shipping its out…
Introduction to the Cloud-Native World with Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) - Series Part 1
In today's digital world, businesses face the challenge of developing, deploying, and scaling applications faster and more efficiently. One of the k…
Golden Paths Aren't About Standardization. They're About Reducing Developer Decisions.
TL;DR Golden Paths aren't about forcing every team to work the same way. They're about removing repetitive infrastructure decisions so developers ca…
Manage OTel Collectors at Scale with OpAMP
If you run more than a handful of OpenTelemetry Collectors, you already know the pain: a config change means SSHing into boxes, redeploying DaemonSe…
What Financial Services Taught Me About Saying No
Financial services has a reputation among engineers: it's the place where velocity goes to die. Ask anyone who shipped software at a startup and the…
Left of the Loop: The Phoenix
Herodotus wrote of a bird that lived five hundred years in Arabia, and when its life came to an end, it did not wait to be surprised by death. It bu…
How to Build a Platform Engineering Team & Internal Developer Portal: Lessons from Modern Engineering Organizations
Platform engineering has become one of the fastest-growing disciplines in software engineering. As organizations scale, the number of services, pipe…
Left of the Loop: The Hestia
A hearth fire required no priest, no temple, no calendar date. It required a fire and a household. When a city sent settlers to found a colony, they…
Picking the Latest Kubernetes Release on AKS Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot
Picking the Latest Kubernetes Release on AKS Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot Every few months a platform engineer opens a Slack message that r…
AKS and Near-Bare-Metal Workloads: What Platform Teams Can Responsibly Plan For
AKS and Near-Bare-Metal Workloads: What Platform Teams Can Responsibly Plan For Every few months a team shows up with a workload that has opinions a…
Left of the Loop: The Gymnasion
Before a young Athenian took his full place in the city, he spent two years in the ephebeia. Training happened in the gymnasion, organized by tribe,…
Left of the Loop: The Kybernetes
The kybernetes was the helmsman who steered a Greek ship, reading the wind and working the steering-oar to hold a course. The word is the root of tw…
End of week. Here's the thing I kept coming back to:
LinkedIn Draft — Insight (2026-07-10) End of week. Here's the thing I kept coming back to: SLOs work when they create conversations, not when they c…
Left of the Loop: Nobody’s Walking Over to a Desk
The most important step in the old process was never written down: the confused developer getting up, walking across the room, and asking. It worked…
Left of the Loop: The PO is Dead, Long Live the PO
When I wrote about shifting the engineering process left — spec sessions, autonomous agents, humans reviewing output rather than writing code — a qu…
Left of the Loop: The Oikonomos
In an ancient Greek household, the oikonomos was the steward: the one trusted to manage the estate’s resources so the whole household prospered. The…
Left of the Loop: The Astrolabe
An astrolabe doesn’t map every star. It gives you a way to find your position relative to the ones that hold still. That’s the instrument I reach fo…
Left of the Loop: The Trireme
A trireme was the warship that made Athens a power in the Mediterranean — not for its size, but for its structure. Three banks of oars, a hundred an…
Left of the Loop: The Agora
The Athenian agora wasn't a building. It was an open space where citizens gathered to think in public — argument, trade, philosophy, policy, all hap…
kubernetes upgrades needed rollback more than another checklist
AWS announced EKS Version Rollback this week, and I think it is one of those features that will sound boring to anyone who has never owned a Kuberne…
Something I wish someone had told me five years earlier:
LinkedIn Draft — Insight (2026-07-03) Something I wish someone had told me five years earlier: Distributed tracing: the gap between having it and us…
Change failure rate is up 30% — here's how to measure yours in an afternoon
A practitioner's guide to calculating your team's CFR without a vendor platform — the DORA formula, the SQL, and the AI-assisted vs human-authored s…
Backstage alternatives in 2026: first ask why you wanted Backstage
Every "Backstage alternatives" roundup lists the same five portals. None of them asks the question that decides which alternative is right: what job…
Auto-Discovering Infrastructure Dependencies Across 10 Ecosystems
It sounds simple: clone every repo, parse the files, build a graph. Here's why each ecosystem fights back, and what it actually takes to map cross-r…
From NDVI to a Generic Spectral Engine: Architecting Scalable Earth Observation Pipelines.
Scaling AgTech Analytics: From NDVI to a Generic Spectral Engine Meta Description: Discover how refactoring a hardcoded NDVI pipeline into a generic…
Left of the Loop: The Ever-Agreeing Genie
Anthropic's engineers ship eight times more code than they did a few years ago. And they had to start scheduling lunches so people would talk to eac…
Left of the Loop: The End of the Craftsman?
I noticed something a few months ago. I was talking less to my colleagues. Not because anything was wrong. I had a question, I described it to an AI…