Writing about what we are actually running. Networks, detection, observability, automation. No vendor blogspam.
2026-06-01
Most AI vendors sell a layer of intelligence on top of your stack. The architecture you choose in the next 12 to 18 months is what actually compounds into advantage, or locks you into a fragile, expensive mess. A field guide to forward-deployed engineering, agentic workflows, and the infrastructure gap.
By Bill Matl
2026-05-25
A retrospective on cutting www.4thoctet.com over from a legacy WordPress install to an Astro 6 + Cloudflare Workers stack. Tool quirks, Pi-hole cache poisoning, and one moment of production downtime we earned.
By Brian Kennedy