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Notes on cloud platforms, program management, and software delivery
Multi-Cloud Is a Situation, Not a Strategy
89% of enterprises use multiple cloud providers. Most don't have a multi-cloud strategy - they have a multi-cloud situation. Notes on the difference.
Citrix Platform Flex: What It Actually Means for Enterprise Desktop Delivery
Citrix launched Platform Flex - a persona-based DaaS model. What changes operationally and what the trade-offs look like from the inside.
What the AWS Outage Taught Us About Resilience Planning
AWS US-East-1 went down. Again. The real lesson isn't "go multi-cloud" - it's that most resilience plans are untested.
AI Agents in the Enterprise: The Gap Between Demo and Production
80% of enterprises have an AI agent in production. Only 31% have one that works at scale. Notes on why, and what it takes to close the gap.
Platform Engineering Is Eating DevOps
80% of software orgs will have a platform team by end of year. What that shift means for infrastructure coordination and the TPM role.
Cloud Costs Are Going Up. Now What?
Cloud spending hit $129B in Q1. AI infrastructure is driving prices up for everyone else. What enterprise infra teams should do about it.
Observability for Distributed Teams: What Actually Matters
Notes on building observability that works across distributed teams. Alert fatigue, metric ownership, and why the "single pane of glass" didn't survive.
Scaling Cloud Infrastructure: Lessons from Enterprise DaaS Deployments
Keeping DaaS infrastructure running at scale across multiple clouds, including capacity planning mistakes that cost us real money.
Agile at Scale: Running SAFe Across Distributed Engineering Teams
Rolling out SAFe across engineering teams at Citrix. What worked, what didn't, what I'd do differently.
Release Engineering for Zero-Downtime Deployments
How we approached continuous deployment on a platform with strict uptime requirements, covering strategies for maintaining a low failure rate at high deployment frequency.
The TPM's Guide to Dependency Management at Scale
Cross-team dependencies are one of the most common causes of program delays. This article covers a systematic approach to identifying and resolving them early.
The Future of DaaS and VDI: Trends Reshaping Enterprise Workspace Delivery
Where desktop virtualization is headed - edge computing, AI provisioning, and zero-trust architectures.
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