Indigo observatory¶
A calm watchpost for stargazing, trend-spotting, and muttering “I do not like the look of that cloud”.
- The Patrician’s playbook
- The Patrician surveys the chaos
- The state of the realm
- Power and dependencies
- The money flows
- Regulatory stirrings
- The AI gold rush examined
- Cloud concentration and its discontents
- The security theatre continues
- Open source and its extremely quiet crisis
- What could actually go wrong
- The infrastructure nobody is building
- When the music stops
- Reading the auguries
- The Patrician’s library
- Disclaimer
- Technical security debt
- Defendable internet
- Legacy systems that refuse to die
- Rapid digitalisation without architectural hygiene
- Shortage of skilled security engineers
- Vendor lock-in and proprietary black boxes
- Ever-expanding regulatory requirements (without matching resources)
- Underfunded cybersecurity in critical infrastructure
- Cloud complexity and misconfiguration epidemic
- Dependency hell in software supply chains
- AI systems bolted on without governance
- A technical debt compendium
- Disclaimer
- Machines learning
- An introduction to the colourful cast of characters
- MLOps: A field guide to impending disasters
- The beginning of hope and notebooks
- The twin pillars of ML disappointment
- From notebook to production: a guided tour of impending complexity
- The many doors an uninvited guest might try
- An apprentice’s field guide to machines learning
- Disclaimer
- Quantum mischief
- Qubits behaving badly
- Quantum algorithms and classical envy
- Classical-quantum alliances (uneasy truces)
- When qubits gossip (security nightmares)
- Quantum supremacy and other tall tales
- Temperamental machinery and cosmic rays
- When quantum actually matters (rarely)
- Surviving quantum ML in production
- What comes next (probably chaos)
- A qubit’s guide to not exploding (a resource collection)
- Disclaimer
- The great chips bubble
Disclaimer¶
Fear not, reader, there are no plots here you can join, but there are truths you might wish you had ignored. Vetinari observes systems, people, and machines, noticing weaknesses others cannot. He writes with levity, but the sharpness behind the words could cut deeper than any sword. Reading is optional. Surviving with your dignity intact is another matter.