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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.
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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 · 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.