Building the Control Plane: How I Made My Infrastructure Programmable
Four Docker hosts and 86 containers with no API meant every operation started with SSH. So I built an Admin API that made containers, GPUs, and alerts programmable.
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The Ghost Fleet: How I Discovered My AI Had Zero Working Tools
A DR rebuild silently killed all 24 of my MCP servers. I rebuilt 21 of them in a single stack with 207 tools, centralized secrets, and semantic filtering.
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Stop Building the Browser You Already Have
Before building infrastructure, inventory what the estate already runs — the playwright MCP backend made the browser image unnecessary. And a QA checker's first
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When a Clean Log Is a Lie
A vendor config migration is only proven when every leg has a discriminator that fails if the leg is absent — and generated artifacts (lockfiles, extracted tree
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From Two Ad-Hoc Runs to One Skill
A workflow is not codified until its scripts are proven against captured evidence from the runs that produced them: bundling replay fixtures (pre-state, post-st
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The Alert Said Network. It Was a Crash Loop.
An alert pipeline's visible activity is not its action path. This stack runs advisory RCA (a read-only bot posts analysis into a chat thread) alongside a separa
Read ArticleAgentic Operations: The Journey Starts Here
I have run orderly systems for a long time. Across all of it, one thing has been consistently true: the parts of my work I
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