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Practical takes on infrastructure automation and applied AI. The fundamentals are free — the complexity is where we come in.
Ryan writes about this work as he does it. These are the ones relevant to infrastructure and engineering teams — they open on Substack.
A network engineer messaged me this week.
A junior dev's postmortem, from a 30 round PR review.
What building Milhouse is teaching me about signals, context, and learning whether a change really helped.
What would it look like if my development workflow, production systems, AI coding agents, deploys, bugs, alerts, and weekly operating feedback all lived inside one observability loop?
and the Signs You Need One
The Case for Infrastructure Thinking
By Ryan Booth | April 24, 2026
Last post was for the room where decisions get made and plans get drawn.
Breaking down the hype of MCPs and why properly designed APIs are still the right approach.
A hands-on introduction building your A2A-enabled personal portfolio.
What happens when overconfidence meets orchestration and how to prevent it.
PRD fundamentals for agentic teams (spec‑first, test‑gated, read‑only by default).
Spec‑first, TDD workflows for skeptical engineers.
Where PRDs, tests, and tools learn to play nice.