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The Technology Held Up Better Than the Use Cases

Distributed consensus is a genuine computer science achievement. Most enterprise blockchain projects failed because a shared database with governance was the actual requirement.

Sep 16, 2026 · 10 min read
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Somebody Still Has to Know Where the Packet Went

Cloud abstractions hide infrastructure, they do not remove it. Why network and systems knowledge keeps being the thing that resolves outages nobody else can explain.

Sep 16, 2026 · 10 min read
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The Cloud Bill Is a Design Document

What an organisation spends on infrastructure describes how its software was built. Why cost, reliability and delivery speed are the same engineering problem.

Sep 16, 2026 · 10 min read
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There Is No Entry-Level Cybersecurity Shortage

Junior applicants are plentiful and experienced defenders are not. Why the security gap is a progression problem, and what to build instead of another certification budget.

Sep 16, 2026 · 9 min read
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The Fastest-Growing Job in Tech Is Mostly Cleaning Data

BLS projects 33.5 percent growth for data scientists to 2034, the highest of any technology occupation. Most of the role is data quality, definitions and asking the right question.

Sep 16, 2026 · 10 min read
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Writing the Code Was Never the Bottleneck

Most of a software engineer's life is spent reading, reviewing, integrating and maintaining. BLS projects 267,700 more software developer jobs by 2034, and the job is changing shape.

Sep 16, 2026 · 10 min read
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Fundamentals Are What You Reach For When the Tool Fails

Frameworks change every few years and the underlying ideas do not. Why computer science fundamentals are the part of technical capability that does not go stale.

Sep 16, 2026 · 9 min read
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The AI Skills Gap Is Mostly a Cybersecurity Gap

Eighty-six percent of employers expect AI to transform their business by 2030, and the role the labour data actually shows growing fastest is information security analyst. Where the demand really sits, and who can be trained into it.

Sep 16, 2026 · 10 min read

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