Analyzing the architecture of useful technology.
Notes from a lifelong systems builder on communications infrastructure, agentic AI, and the permanent boundary between human judgment and machine precision.
Most people read technology from the interface down. I read it from the plumbing up. Useful technology matters more than hype. Machines are built for precision and scale. People are built for judgment. The interesting engineering lives on the boundary between them.
Field notes, frontier analysis, and works in progress.
currently working on: the co-founder agentic experience, engineered against AI slop
Model Context Protocol Architectures and Network Hopsdeploying model context protocol architectures across distributed nodes exposes acute bottlenecks when coordination planes ignore transport jitter.
Adaptive Runtime Control Systems in GPU ClustersAdaptive runtime control systems like SADDLE mitigate transport synchronization bottlenecks in heterogeneous GPU clusters.
Decentralizing Identity Management With IPFS-DID and SECP-AKEDecoupling identity control planes from content-addressed storage transports prevents silent credential desynchronization faults.
Adaptive Microservice Frameworks and Algorithmic AssuranceAlgorithmic assurance architectures and adaptive microservice frameworks address transport network delays and lock contention.Read by system, not by date.
- AI & SoftwareModels, platforms, pricing, patches and the software business decisions behind them.
- Wireless & Mobile NetworksCellular, Wi-Fi, mesh and ad hoc radio networks, and what happens when coordination outruns the air interface.
- Internet & Cloud InfrastructureRouting, data centers, storage, multicast and the plumbing of the wide-area internet.
- Energy & Industrial ControlPower grids, substations, SCADA and factory control loops running over packet networks.
- Space, Aviation & VehiclesFlight software, satellites, planetary exploration and connected vehicles, where distance and motion make latency unavoidable.
- Computing ArchitectureParallel machines, reconfigurable hardware, embedded controllers and shared-memory systems.
- Distributed Systems & CoordinationConsensus, synchronization, failure detection and the coordination protocols that hold distributed software together.