Whitepapers

The longer argument. Written down properly.

Where the guides tell you what to do on Tuesday, the whitepapers explain why we think operations are about to change, and what that means for the teams who build and run software.

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Papers
3
Total reading
44 min
Format
Web + PDF

The shelf

3 papers, read in order or alone.

  1. WP-0115 min read

    The deploy gap

    Why software written with AI stalls before production, and what closes the gap.

    • Writing the application is no longer the slow part. Getting it into production, and keeping it there, is.
    • Production adds eight concerns that localhost never asks about, from reproducible builds to a named owner for the bill.
    • Platforms-as-a-service hide those concerns until you outgrow them; do-it-yourself infrastructure asks for an SRE you do not have yet.

    For Founders, product engineers and indie builders shipping AI-assisted code

    Read the whitepaper

  2. WP-0215 min read

    The agentic SRE

    Operating production with a crew of specialised agents, and keeping humans in charge.

    • A single general-purpose agent with broad permissions is the wrong shape for production; narrow specialists with explicit boundaries are easier to trust and easier to audit.
    • The plan is the unit of trust. Agents may observe and plan freely; nothing changes until a named person approves a specific plan.
    • Orchestration is mostly two patterns: fan out specialists in parallel, then gate the result through sequential checks before anything is applied.

    For Engineering leads, platform and SRE teams

    Read the whitepaper

  3. WP-0314 min read

    Ownership by design

    Bring-your-own-cloud as an architecture for SaaS teams and the customers they serve.

    • Bring-your-own-cloud separates who operates the platform from who owns the infrastructure; it is not the same thing as self-hosting.
    • The control plane coordinates; the data plane (your workloads and your data) stays in your account, in your region, on your bill.
    • Access should be describable in one sentence: a scoped role, short-lived sessions, limited to resources the platform created, recorded in your own audit trail.

    For CTOs, SaaS vendors, security reviewers

    Read the whitepaper

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