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Hello, world — and what I plan to write here

A first note on why this site exists, and the kind of cloud-native, AI and app-building topics I plan to write about.

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  • #devops
  • #ai

This is the first post on a blog I’ve wanted to start for a while. I spend my days building platforms — the Kubernetes, GitOps and infrastructure-as-code foundations that teams ship on — and my evenings building products. This is where I’ll write about both.

What to expect

A few themes I keep coming back to:

  • Platform engineering — turning a pile of cloud primitives into an internal platform people actually enjoy using.
  • Cloud-native in practice — Kubernetes, GitOps, and the operational details that don’t make it into the conference talks.
  • AI, applied — where large language models and agents genuinely help in engineering workflows, and where they don’t.
  • Building apps solo — lessons from shipping FrostCam, WarmCam and Névtárs on my own.

Why write at all

Writing forces me to actually understand the thing I think I understand. If a post helps one other engineer skip a painful afternoon, that’s a good trade.

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more soon

Thanks for reading. More to come.