Infrastructure Engineering: Systems, Networking, Databases & the Internet
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Network architecture, internet protocols, database and systems design, and the infrastructure engineering decisions that determine whether real production systems hold up under load.
OSPF vs Human Workload Routing: A Technical Guide
1. Introduction In networking, OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) is a routing protocol that ensures traffic flows along the shortest and lowest cost path through a network. It does not care about hierarchy, seniority, or intent. It routes based on capability, cost, and reliability. Modern engineering organisations behave in exactly the same way, whether they […]
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Psychopathic Systems: Why Catastrophic Outages Are Never Accidents
Catastrophic system outages are never purely accidental because the conditions enabling them accumulate quietly over time, embedded within organizational structures, incentive misalignments, and suppressed warning signals. Like destructive human behaviour, systemic failure reveals latent dysfunction that existed long before the visible collapse, suggesting every major outage is ultimately a predictable consequence of chronic, overlooked vulnerabilities. […]
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Cloudflare Missed Its Market: The Internet Needs a Trust Layer, Not another Security Tool
Ask ten CIOs what Cloudflare does and you will get ten different answers, ranging across DDoS protection, CDN, zero trust networking, DNS, WAF, reverse proxy, and bot management, and every single one of them will be correct, which is precisely the problem. When a product can be described ten different ways by sophisticated buyers, that […]
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