Technical writing · platform engineering · AWS
A small set of opinionated technical essays on governance, workload shape, operating models, and cost discipline. Less thought-leadership perfume. More real engineering constraints.
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Useful governance is not policy theatre. It is an operating model made of preventive guardrails, detective controls, ownership, and remediation.
Governance works when guardrails, detection, and remediation line up.
Useful if you want to know how I think when the platform gets messy.
The right boundary is often an execution-model change, not a heroic tuning exercise.
Mar 2026
Some workloads do not belong inside a permanent service. Moving them into event-driven ECS tasks can improve isolation, scaling, and cost control.
Most waste is designed in long before finance notices it.
Feb 2026
Cloud waste usually comes from platform design and operating habits, not from a missing cleanup sprint.