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Writing about infrastructure, automation, and the occasional rabbit hole. Posts cover private cloud architecture, VMware, OpenStack, DevOps, and reliability engineering.

The Challenge I Let Slip: Google foo.bar and the Case for Relentless Curiosity
A one-time invitation from Google appeared in my search results in 2019. I froze, let it expire, and learned a lesson about curiosity that outlasted any algorithm
دارجةcareer
Active Directory at Scale: Hardening the Tier-0 Core (and Why I Built My Own Management Tool)
The backbone of enterprise identity, hardening, scaling, and modernizing AD operations, plus the native tool I built to fix its daily frictions
دارجةactive-directory
Demystifying OpenStack: Architecture, Economics, and the Post-VMware Reality
A practitioner's guide to deploying, scaling, and evaluating OpenStack, written from real deployments, not vendor decks
دارجةopenstack
Automating the Boring Stuff: Turning Manual Runbooks into Repeatable Systems
How I turn runbooks from documents humans read into state machines software executes, with Ansible, Python, and guardrailed AI agents
دارجةautomation
From Break-Fix to SRE
How observability and error budgets changed how I think about reliability
reliability · soon
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