Engineering perspectives on running production systems: managed operations, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines. Written for the people who answer for uptime, compliance, and cost.
Infrastructure that nobody formally owns — the departed founder’s scripts, the agency-built integration, the temporary server that became permanent — accrues cost invisibly: slower incident response, key-person risk, security drift and blocked roadmaps. This article covers the signals that reveal it, a one-page method for quantifying the exposure, and the three realistic remedies.
Read the articleGDPR obligations such as erasure, retention and lawful basis are architecture constraints, not policy text. This primer maps them to concrete pipeline decisions: EU data residency, encryption, DPAs with subprocessors, pseudonymisation zones and deletion propagation.
Read the articleBuilding an internal operations team and contracting managed IT services under an SLA are both defensible choices — for different companies. This article sets out when each one is right, what an on-call rotation really costs, and what a contract does and does not transfer.
Read the articleA 30-minute introductory call with a senior engineer — no sales script, no obligation. We listen, we ask questions, and we tell you honestly whether we can help.