When software you ship breaks on a machine you don't run, it usually goes quiet, and quiet looks the same as switched off. The software has to keep its own record and report it later.

AI made tools cheap to build. It didn't make them cheap to own, and owning is where the cost always was.

This week I was asked a really fundamental question and I totally flunked. I didn't grasp its importance and here is my attempt to correct that mistake: What advice would

Standarized workflow to deploy, configure, monitor, update IaaC – the repository contains declarative descriptions of the desired state of the infrastructure ... and automation makes the production enviroment match the repositoryState is