Legacy Modernisation That Meets the Audit Bar
11 minutes
A modernised government system can work perfectly and still leave its auditors short of evidence, because the history the old system kept …
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Insights and opinion from the Sakura Sky team.
API Governance Done Properly
14 minutes
Follow one eligibility API through a public sector programme twice: first governed by a review board and a spreadsheet, then by the platform …
Sovereign Cloud Is an Architecture, Not a Procurement
11 minutes
A sovereign cloud contract usually covers the platform, while keys, identity, data rules, telemetry, and testable contract terms decide …
Audience Telemetry as a Strategic Asset
9 minutes
Most broadcasters and streamers already collect real-time audience signals, but on the streaming side those signals are usually split …
The CTO Playbook for Agentic Systems
6 minutes
A 71-page operating manual for engineering leaders whose software has started to reason, decide, and write the software that carries out …
A 150B MoE on a Developer Laptop: An Upper Bound on What Faster Storage Buys You
18 minutes
A 150-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model streamed from NVMe on an ordinary developer laptop with no usable GPU. Across a 200-token …
Tollgate v0.2.3: What Long-Context Pricing Does to a Spend Cap
11 minutes
Some models bill the whole request at a higher rate above a size threshold. What that does to a spend cap, and what changed in Tollgate …
Evidence That Looks Like Closure: Fuzzing, Fault Injection, and the GATE PARTIAL Checks
16 minutes
gate-fuzz v1.0.0 emits an artefact filed under Check15 that does not close Check15. Working out why is a useful way into which conformance …
GATE v1.5 Roadmap
10 minutes
A preview of the next GATE release: a per-control ISO/IEC 42001 mapping with the asymmetry written down, streaming-aware output validation, …
Tollgate: Open-Source Hard Limits for LLM Spend
7 minutes
Tollgate is an open-source AI gateway and spend-control proxy. It prices every LLM request by token, reserves budget before the call, and …
GATE v1.4: Output Validation, a Rust Companion, and the Conceptual Layer as OKF
10 minutes
GATE v1.4 adds C20 output validation at the delivery boundary, formalises break-glass as a signed contract, adds informative mappings to …
Protecting the IP in a Generative World
10 minutes
A studio can find its back catalogue inside a public model's training data and discover it cannot prove, from its own systems, when the work …