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🛰️ IT Infrastructure
25+ years in the machine room: Azure & Databricks operations, Ansible and Terraform at scale, CI/CD, DataOps - and any system, on Earth or beyond, read with infrastructure eyes.
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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.