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Inside the Novesis control plane

How capacity, routing and rollback are decided, and what stops the system from making a bad call.

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Security

Zero trust is a rollout problem, not a product

Why the hard part is sequencing, and how to introduce identity-based access without breaking the apps people rely on.

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Cost

Five places cloud spend hides

Where to look first when the bill grows faster than the traffic.

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Operations

Designing rollback so nobody needs a pager

What it takes for a bad release to undo itself before a customer notices.

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Architecture

Sizing a spine-leaf fabric for growth you cannot predict

Practical rules for leaving headroom without paying for capacity you never use.

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Operations

What a good failover drill actually tests

Most drills prove the happy path. Here is how to design one that finds the real weaknesses.

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Security

Segmenting a network without breaking the apps on it

Start by watching traffic. Then draw the boundaries the traffic already suggests.

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