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Engineering Notes

Practical insights on cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and automation.

Feb 28, 2026 · 7 min read · devops

89 critical vulnerabilities and nothing is on fire - how to report security findings to executives

Your vulnerability scanner just found 89 CRITICAL CVEs in production. Your CEO wants a report by Friday. Here's a framework for translating raw scan results into something leadership can actually act on.

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Feb 27, 2026 · 3 min read · terraform

Why Every Terraform Module Needs Proper Validation

Most Terraform modules accept any input and hope for the best. Here's how validation blocks and preconditions catch misconfigurations before they hit your cloud bill.

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Feb 27, 2026 · 4 min read · devops

6 months of uptime, then SIGILL - how Google quietly swapped our CPUs

A Cloud Run AI service ran fine for 6 months, then started crashing with SIGILL. No code changes. The root cause? Google swapped the hardware, and the new CPUs report AVX-512 support they don't actually have.

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