Insights
What we are working through.
Written to be useful without a call. If an article only makes sense as a lead magnet, we have not finished writing it.
Observability
6 min
SLOs before dashboards
Most observability spend is decided before anyone agrees what good looks like. That ordering is why the bill grows and the signal does not.
AI strategy
7 min
Why AI pilots stall between demo and production
The gap is rarely model capability. It is unit cost, data readiness, evaluation, and an unanswered question about accountability.
AI agents
8 min
The agent permission problem
Agent projects rarely stall on model quality. They stall on the question of what the agent is allowed to do, and who answers for it.
Post-quantum
6 min
Mosca's inequality, explained for a board
Three numbers decide whether your post-quantum timeline is already late. None of them require a cryptography background to discuss.
Post-quantum
7 min
What a cryptographic bill of materials actually requires
A CBOM is not a scan result. It is an inventory with provenance, ownership, and a lifetime attached to every entry.
In the queue
Planned, not yet written
Published so the editorial direction is visible rather than implied. If one of these would be useful to you sooner, say so and we will move it up.
- 01FIPS 203, 204, and 205: what the NIST selections mean for your migration plan
- 02Ten crypto-readiness questions to send every vendor
- 03Evaluating agents: build the regression suite before you build the agent
- 04Cutting observability cost without losing the signal you need
- 05Practical AI governance under ISO/IEC 42001 and the EU AI Act