The Day I Stopped Pretending I Knew Everything | DCD Dispatch #01
A year ago I hit a moment every infrastructure veteran eventually hits. I didn't know what I was looking at. Here's what I did about it, and why your 20 years of experience matter more than ever if yo...
23 Apr 13min
AI is Giving Object Storage Its Moment
AI agents don't come to your data estate on a schedule. They come when they have a question. Most object storage platforms were never designed for that access pattern. Here's what that gap means for y...
20 Apr 11min
Your Website Doesn't Speak AI Yet
There's a new interface layer being standardized across the web right now. It's written in plain text. It's been quietly adopted by Anthropic, Stripe, Cloudflare, and hundreds of others. And your ente...
16 Apr 19min
Private Compute, Public Burden
$64 billion in blocked projects. A statewide moratorium in Maine. Eleven states considering similar action. The industry keeps calling this a NIMBY problem. It isn't.
15 Apr 13min
What Even is Vibe Coding?
Everyone's either mocking the phrase or evangelizing it. Both camps are missing the point. "Vibe coding" is a dumb name for something that's actually reshaping who gets to build software, and what you...
13 Apr 31min
Before We Begin | DCD Dispatch #00
The introductory issue of the DCD Dispatch newsletter. An introduction to me, where I've been, and what you can expect from subscribing.
10 Apr 8min
Modernization without the Meltdown
For the last two years, enterprise IT shops running hypervisor environments have been staring at a short menu of bad options. The NetApp and Nutanix alliance just added a fourth one.
10 Apr 10min
It's a F**king Mainframe
AI isn’t primarily a UX story. It’s an infrastructure control story wearing a conversational mask, and a lot of old-school operators are more relevant to this era than they think.
9 Apr 10min
