Modern Workspace
3 MIN
From Pets to Cattle: Reference Architecture for SMB Server Rooms in 2026
The canonical 2026 SMB server-room blueprint: Proxmox cluster, IaC-defined hosts, immutable golden images, automated patching, and a rebuild procedure anyone in the team can execute in under 90 minutes. Migration path from pets to cattle in 9 months.
26 APR 2026Practitioner
Modern Workspace
3 MIN
The Platform Engineering Playbook for 10-Person IT Teams
Platform engineering at SMB scale — the 15% of the FAANG playbook that produces ROI on a 10-person IT team. Four patterns that work, four anti-patterns, and a reference stack (GitHub + Atlantis + Terraform + Vault + Prometheus) that ships in a quarter.
25 APR 2026Practitioner
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