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Writing
Blog
Guides, updates and the occasional opinion.
Domains
Security
Two-Factor Authentication for Small Businesses
The highest-value security change most small teams can make, and one of the cheapest.
Security
Rate Limiting: Protecting Endpoints Without Blocking Customers
Login forms, search and APIs need limits. Setting them badly locks out the people you are protecting.
Performance
Content Delivery Networks: When You Need One and When You Do Not
A CDN is not a general speed upgrade. It solves one specific problem: distance.
Guides
Writing a Disaster Recovery Plan You Will Actually Follow
A recovery plan is not a document for auditors. It is a checklist for the worst morning of the year.
Cloud
Multi-Region Architecture: Worth It, or Premature?
Running in several regions is the standard answer to availability and usually the wrong first step.
Cloud
Serverless for Small Applications: A Balanced View
Functions-as-a-service is excellent for some workloads and a poor fit for others.
AI
Prompt Engineering Is Mostly Specification Writing
The techniques that reliably improve output look far more like requirements than tricks.
AI
Using AI for Customer Support Without Annoying Customers
Automated support succeeds or fails on one design decision: how quickly a person can take over.