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&

Here's what nobody wants to say out loud: your cloud security posture is probably worse today than it was three years ago. Not because you're doing less—you're doing more. You've deployed every acronym in the catalog: CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP, SIEM, SOAR.

Your AI agent project is going to fail. Not because the technology doesn't work—it does. Not because your team isn't smart—they are. It's going to fail because you're building the wrong thing, for the wrong reasons, with the wrong expectations.