Writing
Notes from the work.
Practical notes on improving recurring work, alongside earlier articles and talks from my work in cloud and infrastructure.
Recent writing
Better AI tools do not help until your team uses them
Part 1 of 3. How a small business can put useful AI capabilities to work without chasing every new release.
Your business produces more than the finished work
Part 2 of 3. How the decisions, corrections, and outcomes around a process can help you make the next improvement.
The advantage is being able to keep improving
Part 3 of 3. Smaller businesses need both useful new AI tools and a way to learn from their own work. Neither replaces the other.
AI tools are getting better. What does your business do with them?
How smaller teams can put AI tools to work and use their operational experience to keep improving.
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Sub-Second Smart-Home Voice Control for $0.42 a Month With a Serverless 30B LoRA
Why zero-shot prompting and rigid intent matchers fail on real household speech, and how a fine-tuned Muse Glimmer 30B LoRA handles Home Assistant voice commands and state queries in 500ms at $0.0002 per turn.
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Cutting Coding Agent Costs With LiteLLM Model Routing and Cloudflare Clef-Flash
Why built-in agent routers fall short for custom workflows, and how we used Cloudflare Clef-flash in LiteLLM to route coding agents at $0.0034 per 1,000 turns.
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What to measure before automating a process
Use real workflow records to measure effort, delays, and exceptions before automating recurring work.
Engineering archive
These articles and talks are still at their original addresses. They reflect the tools and practices of the time, so check the publication date before using the technical details.
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AWS VPC Buildout With Foreman Hooks for RDNS Creation
Connecting infrastructure provisioning and reverse DNS through Foreman hooks.
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CloudStack Collab 2013: Lessons Learned at Citrix OSD
A conference presentation on operating CloudStack at Citrix.