April 8, 2026
Building a VM Provisioning Pipeline from Scratch
How I designed a system that provisions Windows VMs with custom configurations, handles credential injection, and maintains security through automated hardening.
Writing about infrastructure, developer tools, debugging, and the messy reality of building software.
How I designed a system that provisions Windows VMs with custom configurations, handles credential injection, and maintains security through automated hardening.
A practical comparison of two great frameworks and why shipping zero JavaScript by default was the right call for a content-focused site.
The story of a subtle race condition in our container orchestrator health check reconciliation loop, and the map-based pool pattern that fixed it.