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Cloud exit is a design requirement
A credible cloud strategy includes the ability to leave parts of the cloud without rebuilding the company.
Emil Shirokikh · September 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Topic
Engineering & Cloud
Platform, cloud and reliability engineering.
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Kubernetes is often organisational debt
Teams adopt orchestration to look mature, then spend scarce engineering time operating a platform their product did not require.
Emil Shirokikh · September 8, 2026 · 2 min read
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Observability is not more dashboards
A wall of charts can conceal that nobody knows which customer promise is currently at risk.
Emil Shirokikh · September 7, 2026 · 2 min read
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Data centers are back in strategy
Compute placement has returned to the executive agenda because AI economics, data gravity and power availability now shape product choices.
Emil Shirokikh · September 6, 2026 · 2 min read
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Reliability needs a price
Calling every service critical is how organisations fund none of them correctly.
Emil Shirokikh · September 5, 2026 · 2 min read
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Modernisation needs subtraction
Replatforming a tangled estate without removing obsolete behavior merely gives old complexity a new invoice.
Emil Shirokikh · September 4, 2026 · 2 min read
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Zero trust is not a product category
No appliance can sell an organisation the habit of continuously verifying identity, device, context and authority.
Emil Shirokikh · September 3, 2026 · 2 min read
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Compliance can make systems less safe
When passing the audit becomes the objective, teams optimise evidence while operational risk moves elsewhere.
Emil Shirokikh · September 2, 2026 · 2 min read
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Incident response starts before the alert
The first hours of an incident are determined by decisions made months earlier about ownership, access and evidence.
Emil Shirokikh · September 1, 2026 · 3 min read
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Security review belongs in product design
Late security review finds expensive facts after customers, contracts and architecture have hardened.
Emil Shirokikh · August 31, 2026 · 2 min read
case study
Orchestrating multi-model inference at the edge
A non-client architecture case study for scheduling inference across models, accelerators and intermittent network conditions.
Emil · June 28, 2026 · 9 min read
research
Designing the AI-Native Operating System
A reference architecture for orchestrated multi-model inference at the edge, including cognitive scheduling, placement, cache management and runtime attestation.
Emil · June 28, 2026 · 14 min read
case study
Designing edge inference around device constraints
A non-client technical case study translating edge-inference constraints into an inspectable cross-platform runtime architecture.
Emil Shirokikh · May 24, 2026 · 8 min read
research
On-Device Large Language Model Inference at the Network Edge
A technical report on architecture, optimization and cross-platform runtime design for language-model inference on consumer edge hardware.
Emil Shirokikh · May 24, 2026 · 12 min read
