Running infrastructure that can't afford to break, and helping companies own theirs.

The Option to Abandon

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone is developing and running agents. The pitch decks have converged on the same verb: the software will now act, not just answer, and it will act on your behalf, inside your systems, at a speed no team could match. I have spent my career building and operating inside large corporates, and I think most of what is being shipped under that banner is the most expensive way an organisation has ever found to stand still.

The Audit Is Already Scheduled

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The SMS arrived on 15 July 2026 from Partnered Health, parent company of the GP clinic I have used for years, with an email close behind. On 23 June, it said, the company had become aware that a malicious actor accessed its systems and took patient personal information: names, dates of birth, Medicare numbers, and medical records including consultation notes, referral letters and pathology results. Three weeks passed between discovery and the notice, and the notice closed by recommending I use strong passwords.

Bytes Don't Pay The Rent

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every serious head of streaming engineering has cleaned up after the kickoff thundering herd, has the encoding ladder memorised, and has stopped pretending the per-GB conversation is going anywhere useful. CDN vendors sell aggregate. Live needs instantaneous. Nobody serious about live is still renting the moments that matter.

Media commit rates flatlined for five years. Underneath the same acronym, the market split into two products that share fibre, hardware, and three letters on the invoice. One sells delivery. One sells perimeter. The buyers, the failure modes, and the pricing logic were never the same shape.

What I Learned Building 8 Tbps of CDN

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Spain won UEFA Euro 2024 at 7am on a Monday in Australia. A national audience watching on phones mid-commute, on transit networks, with nowhere else to go if the stream broke. For five years I ran content delivery at Optus Sport. Two engineers in the core team, 8 Tbps of capacity, four CDNs behaving as one, and a 1.5 million requests per minute load test we ran on ourselves on purpose. When the stream is the only way to watch, the stream is the product.