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8 guides so far, newest first. Each one is meant to be used with a terminal open next to it.

2026

  1. Automate blog and social media posting with Claude, GitHub Actions and Make

    An architecture for publishing one researched article a day and turning it into a narrated vertical video for YouTube Shorts, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn, with the platform limits that shape it.

    AI engineering9 min read
  2. Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 Migration: A Complete Technical Guide for Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Drive

    A step-by-step guide to moving from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 with Exchange Online's native Gmail migration and Migration Manager, from routing subdomains and service accounts to MX cutover.

    Microsoft 36515 min read
  3. Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migration Architecture: Cross-Tenant Mailbox, OneDrive, Teams and Domain Move

    A practical guide to Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration for mergers and divestitures: native cross-tenant mailbox and OneDrive moves, SharePoint, Teams and the domain cutover.

    Microsoft 36515 min read

2025

  1. Production LLMOps & Enterprise RAG: Low-Latency, Privacy-Preserving Architecture at Scale

    A blueprint for building accurate, privacy-preserving Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, covering hybrid dense-sparse search, cross-encoder re-ranking, semantic caching and latency tuning.

    AI engineering6 min read
  2. Migrating Enterprise VMs to Azure: A Zero-Downtime Cutover Playbook and Runbook

    An enterprise migration architecture and minute-by-minute cutover runbook for moving VMware virtual machines and multi-tier business applications to Microsoft Azure with minimal, planned downtime.

  3. Event-Driven Microservices at Scale: Apache Kafka vs AWS SQS/SNS vs RabbitMQ for High-Volume Transaction Systems

    An architectural trade-off analysis of Kafka, RabbitMQ and AWS SQS for transaction-processing workloads, covering rebalance storms, poison-pill DLQ topologies and idempotent consumer design.

    Architecture9 min read
  4. Decommissioning Legacy VPNs: A Zero-Trust Remote Access Architecture for the Enterprise

    A reference architecture for replacing castle-and-moat VPN perimeters with identity-centric Zero Trust using Microsoft Entra ID P2, Zscaler Private Access and Continuous Access Evaluation.

  5. PostgreSQL High Availability: A Production Manual for Patroni, etcd v3, HAProxy and PgBouncer

    How to build a PostgreSQL HA cluster with automatic failover and synchronous replication using Patroni, an etcd DCS, HAProxy health-check routing and PgBouncer connection pooling.

    Databases & HA9 min read