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Blog - Infrastructure & Data Field Notes
Field notes from the machine room: Infrastructure, Azure & Databricks operations, Ansible at scale, Azure DevOps → GitHub Actions migrations, MLOps / DataOps and the occasional detour into astronomy, physics, and the night sky.
IT Infrastructure
Azure & Databricks operations, Ansible and Terraform at scale, CI/CD, DataOps - systems read with infrastructure eyes.
Read articles → 🤖Machine Learning
MLOps in practice: model lifecycle, monitoring, data science and Kaggle experiments on real infrastructure.
Read articles → 🌌Astronomy
Exploring celestial objects and following the latest discoveries - from JWST deep fields to backyard skies.
Read articles → 🧠Artificial Intelligence
Studying ML advances and how they translate into real-world impact - then testing myself on Kaggle.
Read articles → ⚛️Physics
Fascinated by the fundamental laws that describe our universe - the original distributed system.
Read articles →ALL POSTS
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APOD: Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole
Each day, the NASA APOD archive turns a different corner of the cosmos into a brief, human-sized window on the universe. Today’s image, “Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn’s South Pole”, is a reminder that even a single ob...
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APOD: The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars
Each day, the NASA APOD archive turns a different corner of the cosmos into a brief, human-sized window on the universe. Today’s image, “The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars”, is a reminder that even a single ob...
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APOD: Pluto in Enhanced Color
Each day, the NASA APOD archive turns a different corner of the cosmos into a brief, human-sized window on the universe. Today’s image, “Pluto in Enhanced Color”, is a reminder that even a single observation can carry...
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Autonomous AI Agents in 2026: The Year the Chatbot Got Hands
Eighteen months ago, AI agents failed 88 percent of the real-world computer tasks researchers put in front of them - navigating actual software, handling files, finishing multi-step office work. As of March 2026, the ...
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Forty Years of Losing to a Tree
On 8 January 2025, Nature published a paper about spreadsheets.
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The Long Dash Was a Deprecation Notice
The Last Thirty-Six Seconds
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Reverse-Engineering Databells, a 104-Node Cluster That Plays Reality
The world emits events. It has always emitted events; births, deaths, supernovae, package deliveries at rates we mostly consume through dashboards, if we consume them at all. A number in a report has no mass. It doesn...
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The Oldest System in Production: 49 Years of Voyager 1
Two days ago I wrote about the newest system in production: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ten million alerts a night, a 60-second SLO, Kafka under the stars. Tonight I want to look at the other end of the spectrum.
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Vera Rubin Observatory: The Universe Just Went to Production
On June 30, 2026, the most ambitious scientific instrument went to production.
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Nothingness Has No Address - a dialogue on the greatest enigma
A late-night metaphysics dialogue with Claude (Anthropic).
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A Star for My Father - Vincenzo D'Apice
Vincenzo D'Apice · September 12, 1937 - August 8, 2022
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Hello, Universe: why this site exists
After 25+ years of building infrastructure for other people’s ideas, I decided it was time to give my own corner of the internet a proper deployment. Welcome aboard.