field reports
War Stories
Postmortems written the honest way — what broke, what it cost, how it died.
The ERP That Refused to Die
Every invoice, purchase order, and payroll run in the company flowed through one SAP production instance — living on Sun SPARC M3000/M5000 machines nearly twenty years old.
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Two Switches, One Crown
The server-farm switch stack is the ground every service stands on.
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The Day Email Left the Building
Outbound mail is invisible until it stops.
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The Audit That Caught a Ghost
A Microsoft 365 tenant under my administration.
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