Why I Still Own a Server Rack in 2026
I have a server rack at home. Not a cute little two-bay NAS tucked under a desk. Between the various machines, there are roughly…
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The Most Dangerous Sentence in Engineering: “We’ll Add the Safeguards Later.”
There is a sentence that appears in technology projects whenever somebody points out an inconvenient safety requirement during the exciting part of building something:…
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Coverity has accumulated something on the order of five million lines of code across its history, branches, generated artifacts and the surrounding ecosystem. Before…
Read article →Your Audit Trail Should Survive Your SaaS Vendor
There is a question I wish more companies asked before buying software: if this vendor disappears tomorrow, what evidence do we still have about…
Read article →Stop Replacing Humans With Software. Replace the Phone Calls.
One of the fastest ways to find an automation opportunity is to listen for the sentence, “I’ll call them and find out.” There is…
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Enterprise architecture diagrams have a wonderful tendency to assume every system has an API. Then you walk into an actual office. There is a…
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