A personal engineering blog covering infrastructure and operations topics such as air-gapped cloud environments and the trade-offs of owning hardware versus renting cloud capacity. It also includes career reflections from a software engineer working in operations.
Website: https://www.jgavinray.dev/
Practitioner field notes on building and governing production AI agents, mostly on Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform. Issues cover infrastructure-as-code for governance, environment and ALM strategy, and orchestration design drawn from hands-on projects.
Practitioner-written DevOps and cloud articles that walk through real client engagements, such as refactoring Terraform repositories, renaming production AWS ECS services and debugging Kubernetes shutdown behavior. Readers get detailed, step-by-step accounts of the problems, trade-offs and fixes involved.
A cloud infrastructure engineer documents practical fixes for running LMCache tiered KV-cache storage with vLLM, covering a broken fs_native adapter, a missing capacity declaration, and Swift s3api addressing problems. Other posts reflect on honest, legible infrastructure design and describe deploying Element chat on the Genestack platform.
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