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Insights on IT infrastructure, AI-powered operations, cybersecurity and DevOps.

Cybersecurity Ransomware June 22, 2026

A backup your ransomware can delete is not a backup. Here are my 4 layers.

Modern ransomware deletes your backups first. The four layers of defense in depth I built so an attacker who is already admin can destroy nothing.

5 min read
Infrastructure Open Source June 22, 2026

I replaced a broker's proprietary hypervisors with open-source. Without ever stopping trading.

Migrating a broker's virtualization from Hyper-V to Proxmox in production, with zero downtime: the rolling method, the shared-storage trap, and the gotchas nobody documents.

11 min read
AI Real-time June 20, 2026

I built a real-time trading platform with an AI. Then the clock started lying.

An asyncio event-loop starvation stretched my real-time trading sessions by 1.2x to 5.5x. One slow client stalled the whole loop. The diagnosis, and the two fixes.

8 min read
AI Infrastructure March 29, 2026

I gave an AI SSH access to my infrastructure. Here's what happened.

How a Head of IT uses Claude AI as an infrastructure co-pilot: network audits, automated documentation, open source monitoring. A 3-month field report.

9 min read
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