Multi-Cloud Versus Consolidation
9 minutes
Most enterprises already run several clouds, whether they chose to or not, so the real question is not whether to consolidate but how to …
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Insights and opinion from the Sakura Sky team.
Telemetry Is Becoming the Business
10 minutes
Operational telemetry has moved from a back-office by-product to one of the most valuable assets a business owns. This fourth post in The …
Evidence Versus Speed
10 minutes
Regulated organisations have long optimised for speed and assumed the evidence could be assembled later. This third post in The Engineering …
HTTP QUERY Finally Settles the Argument. Your Infrastructure Gets the Next One.
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RFC 10008 gives HTTP a method that is safe, idempotent, and carries a request body. It ends a design argument I have been having in API …
Compliance You Can Prove
11 minutes
Why the next era of GDPR, AI Act, and MiCA readiness is engineered, not documented. Praxis wires controls into live systems and produces …
Peak Load Is the Steady State
11 minutes
Peak load used to arrive with a date on the calendar. It arrives now without warning, and the architectures built to survive named events …
AI Safety Assurance Is Still Goodwill, Not Evidence
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The UN's first scientific assessment of AI says safety assurance still runs on developer goodwill, not verification. Here is what …
Sovereignty Versus Efficiency
11 minutes
Regulated enterprises want hyperscaler economics and sovereign-grade data residency from the same platform, and most end up paying for both …
Activation Is the Hard Part
9 minutes
Most marketing organisations spend on platforms that produce insight and starve the systems that act on it. This post argues that …
Data Costs: Are You a Victim of Your Own Success?
11 minutes
A high-frequency analytical query running against raw object storage scans the entire historical dataset every cycle. The cost compounds …
Consent Is Data Engineering, Not Legal
10 minutes
Marketing teams buy a consent platform and approve a cookie banner, then assume the privacy problem is solved while personal data keeps …
Why Most Marketing Dashboards Lie
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Two marketing reports from the same week, drawn from the same source system, can show opposite trends and both be correct. This post sets …