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What Your SLA Actually Guarantees
99.9% uptime sounds impressive until you realise it allows nearly nine hours of downtime per year. Here is how to read an SLA, what the numbers actually mean, and whether your business needs the availability level it is paying for.
What Technical Debt Actually Costs
Your developers keep asking for time to refactor. Here is what technical debt really is, why it accumulates, and what it costs the business when it gets ignored.
Disaster Recovery Is Not the Same as Backups
Having backups is not the same as being able to recover. Disaster recovery is the plan for getting the business operational again when something serious goes wrong, and most businesses do not have one.
What Monitoring and Observability Actually Mean
Your systems are running. But do you actually know they are healthy? Monitoring and observability are the difference between finding out from a dashboard and finding out from a customer.
AI for People Who Do Not Work in Tech
Most AI coverage is aimed at developers and businesses. But normal people are using it too, and nobody is really talking about that.
Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD: What Your Dev Team Is Talking About
Your developers keep mentioning Terraform, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines. Here is what those things actually are, why they matter to the business, and what goes wrong without them.
AI Beyond the Hype: A Practical Conversation
Three of us sat down and talked about where AI is actually useful, where it is not, and what we have learned from using it every day.
The Rust Tools That Replaced My Defaults
I swapped out ls, cat, find, ps, and dig for Rust alternatives. Most of them are genuinely better. Here is what I use and why.
How Small Businesses Are Using AI
Forget the Silicon Valley hype. Here is how real small businesses are using AI day to day, and what it actually costs.
How Software Actually Gets Built
One of us talks to clients, the other writes the code. Here is what the process looks like from both sides, and what matters at each stage.
Kubernetes in Plain English
Pods, deployments, services, ingress. Here is what all of it actually means, without the jargon.
Platform Engineering on a Budget
You don't need a dedicated platform team to have proper CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability. Here's how small teams do it.
Small Business Guide to Not Getting Hacked
You do not need a security team to protect your business. These practical basics cover 90% of the risk and cost almost nothing to put in place.
Building Internal Tools with AI
Forget the hype. Here are the AI-powered internal tools that actually save businesses time and money, from document processing to automated reporting.
What Your IT Person Is Actually Doing
When your systems are running and your data is safe, someone is making that happen. Most of the work is invisible to the people who benefit from it.
What Happens During a Cloud Migration
Cloud migration sounds simple in theory. Here is what it actually looks like week by week, from discovery and planning through to go-live and handover.
What Charities Get Wrong About Technology
Most charities we work with are either spending too much on the wrong things or avoiding technology entirely. There is a middle ground that actually helps.
Docker to Kubernetes: When to Make the Jump
Running Docker Compose and wondering if you need Kubernetes? Here is an honest framework for deciding when to make the jump and when to stay where you are.
Why Your AWS Bill Is Too High
Most businesses are overpaying for AWS. Here is where the money goes, what you can do about it, and the quick wins that cut costs without cutting corners.
AI for Business: Practical Applications
AI is everywhere right now, but what actually works for small and mid-sized businesses? We cut through the noise and share what delivers real value.
Getting Started with Kubernetes
Kubernetes doesn't have to be intimidating. Here's a practical guide to getting your first workloads running without the usual complexity.
Getting Started on AWS
AWS is brilliant once you know what you're doing. The problem is the first few months, when you don't. Here's how to set up properly from day one.
Why We Started Gremlin
The short version: we got tired of watching businesses get sold platforms they did not need. So we started a consultancy that gives honest advice instead.
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