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Long-form notes on production reliability, audits, and what it takes to ship AI into regulated domains. This is where the writing lives; the feed carries it to your reader.
Featured · 10 slides
What I look for first when I open a production system
I have five days, not to fix a system, but to find where it will fail and what that failure will cost. The order I look in is not a checklist. It is a ranking by blast radius.
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From LinkedIn · · illustrated · 2 min
Anatomy of a P0
Most production outages are boring. They hide in the part of the system nobody looks at because it has always just worked. The anatomy of one.
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Field note · · 1 min
The backup you have never restored is not a backup
A backup nobody has restored is a hypothesis. Until the restore runs against a clock, you do not have a recovery plan. You have a setting.
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Field note · · 1 min
Temporary admin credentials are permanent
The access that was widened once for a deploy and never narrowed is the access an attacker eventually finds. Temporary is the most expensive word in an auth model.
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Field note · · 1 min
Most SaaS auth fails after login, not at it
Teams pour effort into proving who you are. The breach is almost always in what you are allowed to do once you are in. Authentication is the door. Authorization is the building.
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From LinkedIn · · 1 min
3 patterns I find in 80% of early-stage backends
Most early-stage backends break in the same three places, and they stay invisible until something goes wrong: credentials in git, auth by accident, and backups nobody has restored.
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From LinkedIn · · 1 min
What does 'something you can rely on' actually mean?
'We have something we can rely on' sounds clean. It is also vague. The five things that have to be true before a system earns the word reliable.
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From LinkedIn · · 10 slides · 1 min
From audit to pause: when stopping is the right call
I was brought in to audit a system that had been 'in development' for nine months. In five days we mapped it, found the risks, and the right call was to stop.