Infrastructure on Corrupted Glitch

Project 01: Datacenter Exit & Identity Transformation

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0500

The mission: exit a physical datacenter completely, retire on-prem Active Directory, and land every workload and identity in a cloud-native model. Outcome: 20% opex reduction, 27 apps consolidated under SSO, zero business interruption.

Managing macOS at Scale with Fleet: MDM Without the Black Box

Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Most MDM products are black boxes: you click checkboxes in a vendor console and trust that the right profile landed on the right Mac. Fleet inverts that. It’s open source, it’s built on osquery, and every piece of device state is a queryable table. Here’s how to run macOS management on it without regretting your choices.

Project 02: HIPAA-Compliant Lakehouse on Azure Databricks

Fri, 15 May 2026 09:00:00 -0500

The mission: give analysts a modern lakehouse over patient data without ever exposing PHI to a public endpoint. Everything provisioned by Terraform; nothing clickable in the portal.

AWS vs. Google Cloud vs. Azure: A Field Guide for People Who Sign the Bill

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Every cloud comparison ends the same way: “it depends on your workload.” True, useless. After running production estates on all three, here’s the comparison that actually matters — how each cloud behaves as an operating environment, and which organizational failure mode each one invites.

Project 04: Kubernetes Autoscaling & the EFK Observability Stack

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0500

The mission: stop paying for idle pods and stop debugging production by kubectl logs-ing one pod at a time. Two builds, one outcome: a cluster that scales itself and explains itself.