The Production Gap: Why Nobody Teaches the Infrastructure That Actually Matters Every bootcamp, CS program, and YouTube tutorial series teaches you how to build features. Almost none of them teach you what happens when those features meet real traffic, real failure modes, and real users who do things you never

The AI CapEx Arms Race Is Coming for Your Cloud Bill The three major cloud providers are spending money like it's going out of style. Oracle is financing a $300 billion deal with OpenAI through $50 billion in stock sales and debt. Google just pledged to double its

On March 3rd, an attacker compromised the Xygeni GitHub Action by poisoning a mutable tag. Every CI runner referencing xygeni/xygeni-action@v5 quietly started executing a reverse shell to a C2 server. The exposure window lasted a week. 137+ repositories were affected. The root cause wasn't exotic. A

The streaming media stack has operated in silos for two decades. Encoding and transcoding happen at the source or in dedicated hardware. Orchestration — ad insertion, CDN routing, audience rules — happens in the cloud. And when anyone wants to apply machine intelligence to video, it happens after the fact: pull the

Originally published on the Presidio blog - sharing here as it captures the current reality around agentic AI in enterprise modernization. The pitch behind agentic application modernization is seductive: deploy agentic AI to continuously modernize your applications. No more episodic transformation projects. No more three-year cycles of delay and crisis.

Everyone's obsessed with prompt engineering like it's some arcane art. Here's what they're missing: the real challenge isn't crafting clever prompts. It's context management. And most organizations are doing it catastrophically wrong. The Context Delusion The industry has

Everyone's talking about AI infrastructure like it's the next gold rush. Here's what they're not telling you: most enterprise AI infrastructure projects fail not because of technology limitations, but because organizations are solving the wrong problems entirely. The Infrastructure Theater The industry

In late 2022, I had emergency open heart surgery. Not a metaphorical "rough patch" — my heart literally stopped in the hospital. I coded, was resuscitated, and spent the following months trying to put my life and health back together. A few months later, at a large, well-known tech

The Kubernetes ecosystem just pulled its biggest rug since Docker changed their licensing. Ingress NGINX is being retired in March 2026, and it powers roughly half of all Kubernetes deployments. If you're a CTO who signed off on "cloud-native transformation" in the last five years, you&