Capacity isn't the whole story.
Performance, cost, operations, growth and recoverability all matter. A storage design is only useful when it survives real life.
05 / WORK LIFE
A career spent behind the scenes.
Enterprise IT, storage, architecture, disaster recovery. The stuff people barely notice when it works, and absolutely notice when it doesn’t.
A FEW LESSONS FROM THE ENGINE ROOMComplexity is easy.
Complexity is easy.
Clarity takes work.
There’s a particular satisfaction in turning a complicated problem into a simple, supportable answer. That’s the work I find interesting: storage, backup, infrastructure design, resilience and the decisions that matter when something goes wrong.
THOUGHTS FROM THE DAY JOB
Built to last.
A backup is not a recovery plan.
The only recovery time that counts is the one you've actually tested. Everything else is an assumption waiting for an incident.
Design for the people who run it.
Elegant diagrams are great. Systems that are understandable, resilient and maintainable long after handover are better.
These are personal, general observations about technology. No internal infrastructure details, company information or confidential material are published here.