№ 002Field Notes5 notes

Working notes from the practice.

Short pieces on what actually breaks: landing zones that assumed a stable org chart, pilots nobody could measure, agents nobody costed. Written between engagements, not for a content calendar.

  1. № 00526.08.05
    Multi-Cloud Architecture

    Multi-region does not mean redundancy

    A BigQuery dataset in the US multi-region lives in one of Iowa or Oregon. Not both. You bought quota, not resilience.

    2 min
  2. № 00426.08.05
    Security Architecture

    Private endpoints are not an exfiltration control

    Private connectivity controls where a caller can reach the API from. It says nothing about what they can do once connected.

    2 min
  3. № 00326.07.31
    Multi-Cloud Architecture

    Your data pilot is not temporary

    The word temporary, in an enterprise data platform, usually means permanent — but without the controls.

    3 min
  4. № 00226.07.22
    AI & GenAI Enablement

    Private cloud for AI is a data gravity decision

    The business case says security and compliance. The actual driver is usually that the data is already somewhere, and moving it is expensive.

    3 min
  5. № 00125.10.27
    Multi-Cloud Architecture

    Your failover depends on the thing that failed

    A financial services client found seventeen hidden dependencies on us-east-1 inside a payment system they had signed off as redundant.

    3 min