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Your cloud migration should not start with the migration

The risky part of moving to the cloud is rarely the move itself. It is the undocumented dependencies you find halfway through.

The notebook works. That is roughly twenty per cent of the distance to something customers can depend on.

If deploying is stressful, the problem is rarely the tooling. It is that the pipeline is a person following a document.

Adding a chat box to an app is not AI-native. The interesting changes are in latency, state and what happens when the model is wrong.

Most breaches do not start with a clever exploit. They start with an account that should have been closed and a dependency nobody had updated.

A chart that nobody can trace back to a source is decoration. The hard part of analytics is the lineage underneath it.

Automating a broken process gives you a broken process that runs faster and is harder to see into. Fix the shape first.

Cold start time is decided by what you do before the first screen renders, and most apps do far too much of it.

Notes from the engineers who build and run this work - cloud platforms, mobile and web applications, data pipelines and AI features.