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Containers Don't Hide Your Assumptions. They Expose Them
Eight Docker assignments, one production-style stack, and seven problems I only found because every boundary made me check
Sep 27, 202616 min read3
Four Times My Ansible Worked, and It Still Wasn't Done
A green recap answers one question. Here are the four I now ask before I call a playbook finished
Sep 25, 202613 min read
Valid Is Not the Same as Working: Building a Three-Tier AWS App with Terraform and an AI Agent
Every serious bug in my capstone passed one check and failed the next one closer to reality. Here is where each one hid, and the verification habit that caught them.
Sep 24, 202611 min read2
Terraform Said My Whole Stack Was Deleted. It Was Looking at the Wrong AWS Account.
What building an AI-assisted drift review taught me about the one thing `terraform plan` can't check for you.
Sep 24, 20267 min read
The Audit Script I Wrote Reported Eight Problems. Two Were Real.
I had just finished the biggest thing I have built on AWS: a three-tier application with a public load balancer at the front, a private application server that has no public address at all, and a database replicated across two data centres with no route to the internet.
Aug 11, 20267 min read2
My Servers Passed Every Health Check. None of Them Worked.
Two terminals open. One running a curl loop against a load balancer, once every five seconds. The other about to terminate a running server on purpose.
Aug 11, 20268 min read5