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    <title>A backup your ransomware can delete is not a backup. Here are my 4 layers.</title>
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    <description>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.</description>
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    <title>I replaced a broker's proprietary hypervisors with open-source. Without ever stopping trading.</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>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.</description>
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    <title>I built a real-time trading platform with an AI. Then the clock started lying.</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>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.</description>
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    <title>I gave an AI SSH access to my infrastructure. Here's what happened.</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>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.</description>
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