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Long-form notes on modernization, cloud platforms and enterprise AI — written to be useful to engineers and architects making the same decisions. Subscribe via RSS.
Engineering leadership
AI has made fluent technical talk cheap. Judgment built from delivering and running systems is still scarce. How I tell them apart in interviews and design reviews — fairly — and how to get the best from both.
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Modernization
Big modernization programs rarely fail because of the technology. They fail on vague outcomes, guessed inventories, late dependencies and unrehearsed cutovers. What I watch for — and the guardrails that work.
6 min read
Engineering leadership
AI assistants have made it cheap to pick up a framework's syntax, but not judgment, domain knowledge or deep platform expertise. When a specific technology background still matters — and what I hire for instead.
6 min read
Enterprise AI
Why enterprise AI systems should separate deterministic extraction, model interpretation and policy-based acceptance — and how that separation controls accuracy, auditability, drift and cost.
5 min read
Architecture at scale
A hypothetical design exercise: intake, static analysis, orchestration, idempotency, selective LLM use, validation, security, observability and a worked capacity estimate — with every number stated as an assumption.
5 min read
Modernization
Moving from .NET Framework to modern .NET changes hosting, configuration, dependencies, behavior and release practice. A practical guide to the decisions that actually determine success.
6 min read
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