Cloudflare Free Tier Review: Why It Works for Enterprise
By Andrew Baker, CIO at Capitec Bank There is a truth that most technology vendors either do not understand or choose to ignore: the best sales pitch you will ever…
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Aurora Serverless v2 PostgreSQL: Production Scaling Guide
Aurora Serverless v2 promises the dream of a database that automatically scales to meet demand, freeing engineering teams from capacity planning. The reality is considerably more nuanced. After running Serverless…
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Corporate Heckling: Why Low-Context Oversight Fails Teams
There is a peculiar sport played in large organisations. It looks like leadership and sounds like governance, hiding behind frameworks, maturity models, and operating rhythms. But in reality it is…
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Apache Kafka 4.x: What KRaft and ZooKeeper Removal Mean
There is a version of the Apache Kafka story that gets told as a series of press releases. ZooKeeper removed. KRaft promoted. Share groups landed. Iceberg everywhere. Each headline lands…
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Java’s NullPointerException Problem: Causes and Fixes
Every Java developer has seen it. The stack trace that ends conversations. The production incident that ruins a Friday afternoon. The crash that leads to the post-mortem nobody wants to…
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Leadership Bloat: When Management Consumes the Business
1. The Shoe Planet Problem In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, there is a planet where the inhabitants become so obsessed with shoes that the shoes eventually take over.…
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Technology Leadership Assessment for Business Heads
This is an assessment exists to surface how you actually think about leadership of technologists. Answer honestly. Not as the executive you present in interviews. As the leader you become…
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Logic First Leadership: The Cost of a Ruthless Mindset
1. The System That Built Everything I have spent my entire career inside a single operating system. Logic first. Reality over narrative. Strip the problem down, find the root cause,…
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Naked Teams: How to Strip Away Defensive Process
1. The Uncomfortable Silence After the Music Stops Every organisation that runs on defensive process has a soundtrack. Standups hum at 9am. Sprint reviews crackle on Fridays. Retros generate their…
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Toxic Ownership Models: How Corporate Culture Fails Clients
1. Ownership Has Been Turned Into a Moral Shortcut Ownership has become one of the most lazily celebrated concepts in modern organisations. Leaders demand it reflexively, teams chase it performatively,…
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