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For the first decade of my career, I chased the same goal every architect did: one provider, one control plane, one security model. It looked clean on a slide deck. It even worked—for a while. Then 2025 happened. We watched key AWS teams hollow out, turning incident response into 75-minute archaeology digs. We saw model…
For a decade, “Cloud First” wasn’t just a strategy; it was dogma. If you weren’t aiming for 100% public cloud, you were viewed as “legacy.” Buying servers felt retro. Then came the Generative AI boom, and with it, a harsh physical and economic reality check. As we settle into 2026, enterprises are facing an “AI…
The Year Two Decision: Architecting for expensive stability or painful modernization. The shock is over. The tweets have faded. The “Broadcom killed VMware” headlines are yesterday’s news. Now, you have a quote on your desk. Welcome to Year Two. If Year One was about denial and anger, Year Two is about the cold, hard math…
Debunking the myth that AWS Lambda can’t power real GenAI workloads by redefining the boundary between the “Brain” and the “Nerves.” Debunking the myth that AWS Lambda can’t power real GenAI workloads requires redefining one boundary. Not technology — anatomy. The difference between the Brain and the Nerves. I recently ignited a firestorm on Reddit…
The Grok Ban: What Happened and Why It Matters Indonesia’s Communications and Digital Affairs Ministry temporarily blocked the AI chatbot Grok, developed by xAI and integrated into X, citing the AI’s ability to generate non-consensual sexual deepfake images, including disturbing depictions involving minors. This isn’t a “social media quirk.” It’s a regulatory first — a…
(Even When Repatriation Looks Tempting) After publishing my piece on cloud repatriation, my inbox filled up fast. Not with disagreement—but with a different question: “Okay, fine. Some workloads should come home. But which ones absolutely should not?” That’s the right question. Repatriation is not a crusade. It’s a correction. And like all corrections, it can…
For the last decade, “Cloud First” wasn’t just a strategy; it was a religion. If you suggested buying a server, you were treated like a heretic clinging to a mainframe. But the zero-interest rate era is over. The “growth at all costs” mindset has been replaced by “profitability or death.” And suddenly, that $40,000/month AWS…
“Write once, run anywhere.” It’s the oldest lie in distributed computing. Java promised it in the 90s. Docker promised it in the 2010s. Now, cloud vendors promise it—usually right before they lock you into a proprietary service mesh or a database that only exists in us-east-1. Let’s be real for a minute: Infrastructure is not…
The “Shim Tax” is Killing Your ROI If you are running standard Kubernetes clusters on top of VMware or Cloud VMs, you are paying a hidden tax on every single pod you launch. It’s called the Shim Tax. When you run 1,000 containers using the standard runc runtime (written in Go), you are also running…
