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Chapter 01: The day infrastructure started operating itself The pager screamed at 3:47 AM, a jagged, electronic intrusion that sliced through the silence of the bedroom. Marcus was awake before he was conscious. His hand reflexively snatched the phone from the nightstand, his thumb already swiping to acknowledge the alert. PagerDuty. Critical. Production. He sat up, the cold air hitting his skin, […]
Between June 1985 and January 1987, six patients received radiation doses between 40 and 200 times the prescribed therapeutic level from a machine that had been certified, reviewed, and considered an improvement over every model before it. At least three died from their injuries. The Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s Therac-25 reported no error each time. Operators, following training, pressed […]
A control verification framework for cloud security and DevSecOps engineering In 1985, AECL engineers removed the physical interlocks from the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine. The software was handling it. The hardware was redundant. Six patients were irradiated with doses up to 200 times the prescribed level. Three died. The machine reported no error each time. The engineers were not negligent. […]
AI, cognition, and the governance crisis nobody is building for Bola Ogunlana | Cockpit to Cloud | May 2025 | 12 min read Somewhere in the next decade, governments are going to discover they’ve been managing the wrong population. The one they were built for followed instructions. The one arriving will not. AI is changing cognition at scale. Peer-reviewed research […]
You’re mid-sentence. Someone cuts in. And instead of holding your ground, you say it. “Let me finish.” Weakness, announced out loud to everyone in the room. It’s a request dressed up as a command “Let me finish” is asking permission to speak. You’re appealing to someone else’s goodwill to reclaim ground that was already yours. Authority gets held. When you […]
Is AI the savior of DevSecOps or the fastest path to total chaos? This week, the community erupted over AI’s reckless sprint into pipelines while supply chains bleed from avoidable hacks. Forget the polished trends – let’s rip the Band-Aid off: most teams are sleepwalking into disaster, and it’s time to call out the bullshit. AI Agents: Genius or Glorified […]
Azure Cloud Shell is one of those tools that looks small until you actually use it. Then it starts acting like a spare laptop living inside your browser. For DevOps work, that matters. For locked-down Windows laptops, it matters even more. What it is Cloud Shell gives you a browser-based Bash or PowerShell session tied to your Azure identity. You […]
Let me paint you a picture that will be painfully familiar. It’s 8:47 AM. You’ve just inherited a brand-new corporate Windows laptop, still warm from the imaging oven. You open a terminal and try to install Terraform. Blocked. You try WSL. Blocked. Docker Desktop? Blocked. You consider asking the service desk for admin rights and then remember you’ve been down […]
Most people using AI are getting worse at thinking. A study from MIT’s Media Lab has the data to prove it. But one system, pairing Google’s Gemini with NotebookLM, is designed to do the opposite: amplify your intelligence rather than quietly erode it. This is not another tool comparison article. It is a framework question: are you using AI as a […]
🚨 Security Alert • April 2026 Your Security Scanner Is Now an Attack Vector The European Commission AWS Breach: Full Timeline, Attack Chain, and 12-Step Hardening Checklist By Bola Ogunlana April 2026 ⏱ 12 min read 🏷 DevSecOps • Cloud Security • Supply Chain 340GB Data Stolen 71 EU Institutions Hit 5 Days to Detect 1 API Key. That's All. […]