Occasional essays on practice, restraint, and the strange beauty of systems that simply work.
Pre-product-market-fit, a €20 server with Docker Compose beats a managed container platform on cost, speed and sleep. The real numbers — and the honest moment to switch.
The fastest-adopted agent framework in open source runs on hardware you own, speaks through your messaging apps, and holds your credentials. What its rise teaches operators about running agents safely.
On-call, code review, runbooks, postmortems — every ritual of DevOps is being renegotiated as AI agents take their place in the loop. What survives, what inverts, and what becomes more important than ever.
A CNCF sandbox project treats agents as cluster citizens — declared in CRDs, reconciled by a controller, governed by the RBAC and GitOps you already trust. Why that pattern matters more than the project.
Terraform taught us to declare machines instead of building them by hand. The next step is infrastructure that is operated by agents — and agents that are themselves declared, reviewed and promoted like any other artifact.
Why the best deploy systems feel slower than they are — and faster than they need to be.
What happens when you stop treating SLOs as numbers and start treating them as agreements.
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