Index
Thoughts
Short notes on how I think about platform engineering — declarative systems, GitOps, security, and the discipline of designing for recovery.
The Cost of Not Running Experiments
In banking, the decision that feels free, shipping a change without a controlled experiment, is usually the expensive one. And the most expensive version of it hides inside credit underwriting.
Git Is the Source of Truth; the Runtime Is a Cache
What changes when you treat the running system as a disposable projection of a versioned history.
Recovery-First: Design the Restore Before the Deploy
The most honest test of an architecture is whether you can rebuild it from nothing but Git and an off-host backup.