Zero Trust Security in Practice: Moving Beyond the Perimeter in Cloud-Native Systems

The old security model was built around a perimeter: inside the firewall, you’re trusted; outside, you’re not. For decades, this worked well enough. Corporate networks were physical places. Servers sat in data centers you controlled. Employees came to the office.

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WebAssembly in 2026: The Runtime That Escaped the Browser

WebAssembly was introduced to the world as a faster way to run code in browsers. C++ games, video editors, image processing — things that JavaScript couldn’t handle performantly. That was the pitch in 2017.

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Rust in Production: Lessons from Three Years of Replacing Python and Go Services

I’ve spent the last three years migrating production services from Python and Go to Rust. Some migrations were triumphant. A few were disasters we quietly rolled back. Most were somewhere in between — significant wins that came with real costs.

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Platform Engineering in 2026: How to Build an Internal Developer Platform That Developers Actually Use

Platform engineering emerged as the hype successor to DevOps around 2023. The pitch: instead of every team managing their own infrastructure and pipelines, build a centralized Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that abstracts the complexity away. Give developers a self-service experience. Let them deploy without knowing Kubernetes.

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