Notes on building and running infrastructure at scale.
20+ years in enterprise IT — from Exchange migrations and data center builds to designing cloud platforms for major financial institutions. I write about the real work of keeping systems running.
- March 10, 2026
Building an Internal Cloud Platform from Scratch at Scale
What it actually takes to design a cloud platform for a major financial institution — the architecture decisions, the trade-offs, and the automation that holds it together.
- March 5, 2026
NSX-v to NSX-T Migration: The Playbook Nobody Gives You
Having led this migration at enterprise scale, here's the real playbook — including the gotchas that aren't in VMware's documentation.
- February 26, 2026
The Case for Keeping Hyper-V in a Multi-Hypervisor Strategy
Everyone's talking about VMware alternatives after the Broadcom acquisition. But Hyper-V has quietly become a very solid option for certain workloads.
- February 18, 2026
Why I Stopped Using vCenter Alarms and Built My Own Monitoring
vCenter's built-in alerting is fine until it isn't. Here's how I replaced it with a lightweight stack that actually tells me what matters.
- February 10, 2026
Why I'm Writing About Infrastructure
After 20+ years building and running enterprise IT, I'm finally putting the lessons down in writing. Here's what to expect.