Field notes on drift
Long-form engineering writing about detecting, classifying and reversing infrastructure drift — the parts nobody documents until it costs them an incident.
Engineering2026-08-04 · 9 min read
The anatomy of Terraform drift
Where drift actually comes from, why refresh-only plans catch it, and how to classify a change by blast radius.
Read article →Practice2026-07-18 · 7 min read
Self-healing infrastructure without losing control
A staged rollout for automated remediation: what to heal, what to gate, and the guardrails that keep an auto-apply from becoming an incident.
Read article →Compliance2026-06-29 · 6 min read
Drift detection as SOC 2 evidence
How continuous reconciliation records map onto change management and configuration control expectations.
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