1+ week, 5+ day ago   (899+ words) I’ve spent enough time around Major Incident bridges to know that the first few minutes rarely look as clean as the process diagrams. A critical service is unavailable. People start joining the call. Technical teams are checking logs, recent changes,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (604+ words) This is not a critique. It's simply the natural default focus for most teams. Everyone knows exploits are expensive, so contract code is audited. Infrastructure is only noticed when it fails in front of users. The problem is that RPC…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1237+ words) In 2014, financial intelligence units across the European Union received almost a million suspicious transaction reports. Around ten per cent of them were investigated further. Roughly one per cent of criminal proceeds were confiscated. Europol, publishing those figures in 2017, noted that…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (806+ words) Years ago, I came across an infographic called Businesses Have Messy Data. It visualized something every growing company eventually discovers: data becomes chaos. Looking at that infographic made me think about emails. Not email as a communication tool. Email as…...