Writing
Notes on architecture decisions I have had to defend — mostly about agents, Kubernetes and the cost of getting distributed systems wrong.
12 August 2026
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Your agent is a distributed system wearing a prompt
Every hard problem teams hit with agents in production is a problem distributed systems solved twenty years ago — and mostly forgot to tell the AI crowd about.
Read →26 June 2026
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ECS to EKS: what I would do differently
A migration that carried 50M requests a day without an outage, and the four decisions I would reverse if I ran it again.
Read →2 May 2026
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The eval set is the product
If you cannot say what "correct" means in numbers, you do not have an AI feature — you have a vibe that occasionally embarrasses you.
Read →18 March 2026
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FHIR is fine. Interoperability is a people problem
Connecting to Cerner, CommonWell and CareQuality taught me that the standard was rarely the obstacle.
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