The Masochists Who Keep the Internet From Devouring Itself
A love letter to the night-shift tribe: outage rooms, inherited config ghosts, and the people who keep the Grid alive.
Read the post →Dispatches from three decades of routing & response.
Long-form riffs on BGP chaos, FlowSpec redemption arcs, automation lessons, and the quiet professionals who keep the Internet standing. Expect more entries soon.
Internet Big Bang, Twenty Five Years Later
What the original “Internet Big Bang” paper got right, what it missed, and where the next explosion is happening inside AI fabrics.
Read the post →The Box Grew Around Us
From floppy boxes and locked rooms to cloud perimeters and AI-scale defense—the mission to control access never changed.
Read the post →Routing Chaos with a Soundtrack
BGP, FlowSpec, and IRR hygiene told through late-night incident bridges and Faith No More riffs.
Read the post →The Quiet Professionals of Tech
Why veteran engineers are the backbone of dependable teams — and how to lead like them.
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