Launch Day Is Every Day
Subscription and on-demand media platforms still spend their engineering effort preparing for the scheduled launch, while the traffic that breaks them arrives unscheduled, the way it always has for newsrooms and live …
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Architecture
Arkhe: An Ontology Language for AI Systems
7 minutes
Two weeks ago I argued that your ontology is the asset and you should own it in a neutral, versioned form. Arguing is cheap. Arkhe v0.2 is …
Trust Is an Engineering Output
9 minutes
Being correct is not the same as being able to prove it. This final post in The Engineering Underneath argues that trust is an engineering …
Your Ontology Is the Asset. Stop Renting It Back.
10 minutes
Agentic AI post-mortems keep naming the same trio: determinism failures, hallucinations, and compliance gaps. An ontology retires all three, …
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 …
HTTP QUERY Finally Settles the Argument. Your Infrastructure Gets the Next One.
8 minutes
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Multi-Tenant Agentic AI on Google Cloud: A Production Walkthrough
25 minutes
A review of Google's multi-tenant agentic AI reference architecture stage by stage, naming trade-offs at each decision point and filling the …
The Regulatory Stack, Part 6: Building Under the CRA - A Reference Architecture
11 minutes
A production-grade reference architecture translating the GATE specification into a live runtime, using Apigee, Envoy Proxy, and …
The Regulatory Stack, Part 5: The Cyber Resilience Act Closes the Last Loophole
10 minutes
Think your AI agent escaped the EU AI Act's high-risk classification? The Cyber Resilience Act lands more than a year earlier, and it …
The Regulatory Stack, Part 4: Engineering Under the AI Act - Article 15 Cybersecurity in Practice
10 minutes
How to turn the EU AI Act's stringent cybersecurity requirements into a clean, automated side effect of your existing platform engineering …