Modern IT infrastructure, in five pillars
The framework I use to keep infrastructure sane: five pillars on four foundations, every component a CI wired to the rest.
Notebook
Compute × Finance
Where workloads run — servers, VMs, containers, endpoints. · Size it — cost, budget, right-sizing, run-rate.
Idea notes
Own the baseline, rent the bleeding edge
Token prices are heading for a real-cost reckoning. The way through is the one we use for compute: own the AI baseline, burst for the bleeding edge.