AI Infrastructure
Enterprise AI reference architecture - (Capital One - Discover)
A governed AI platform pattern for regulated enterprise environments balancing experimentation, evaluation, security, and operations.
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The full public collection of system writeups, sorted by the same order used for the featured homepage cards.
AI Infrastructure
Local inference runtime for developer productivity (Capital One - Discover)
A privacy-preserving local model runtime pattern for enterprise developer tooling.
Governance
Compliance-as-code architecture (Capital One - Discover)
A policy-as-code pattern for turning control requirements into queryable, testable platform state.
Enterprise Infrastructure
Global virtual desktop platform (Caterpillar, Inc.)
A remote-work platform pattern for secure access, endpoint consistency, and resilient user experience across regions.
Platform Engineering
Platform automation control plane (Capital One - Discover)
An infrastructure automation pattern for repeatable provisioning, lifecycle control, and operational visibility.
Infrastructure Strategy
Workload placement and hybrid TCO analysis (To be announced)
A decision pattern for comparing cloud, on-premises, and hybrid placement using cost, risk, performance, and operating-model criteria.
Infrastructure Strategy
When the Enterprise Standard Is Not the Lowest-Risk Architecture
An architecture decision story about PostgreSQL for Ansible Automation Platform on OpenShift, and why operational ownership sometimes mattered more than centralization.
Platform Engineering
You Haven't Automated Anything Until Someone Else Can Operate It
An architecture opinion about automation, Citrix application delivery, synthetic testing, and why supportability can matter more than a cleaner mechanism.
AI Infrastructure
The Model Is Not the System
A sharp architecture opinion on open-weight AI security, model poisoning, and why a compromised model artifact is not the same thing as a compromised enterprise AI system.
AI Infrastructure
640K of Intelligence Should Be Enough
A short opinion on why good-enough AI economics are useful for workload selection, but lousy as a prediction about future demand.
Web Platform
Static delivery system reference pattern
A platform-agnostic delivery pattern for publishing technical content with static generation, CI validation, privacy checks, containerized runtime, and separate test and production paths.
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Web Platform
Self-hosted web analytics platform
A separately deployable analytics platform that keeps the promo site static while adding self-hosted telemetry, persistent data ownership, protected administration, and narrowly scoped public collection endpoints.