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Field notes on running telecom and enterprise infrastructure — written by the engineers who do the work.
August 6, 2026 · 5 min read
The failure modes that stretch an Ericsson Network Manager upgrade window — and the boring preparation that prevents each one.
The real decision is not features — it is who patches the platform, who certifies the stack, and what your auditors accept.
August 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Retain, rehost, replatform, or retire — turning Broadcom's licensing shock into a per-workload plan instead of a panic.
Bounded, auditable agent work — alarm triage, report drafting, config checks — beats the autonomous-NOC pitch every time.
Treating Model Context Protocol servers as governed API surfaces — least privilege, audit, versioning — is what makes agentic AI operable.
Environments diverge from their declared state one hotfix at a time. Argo CD's real job is making that divergence visible before it becomes an outage.
