Tag: DevOps

• We Should Plan to Fail

  

  Photo by Zach Lezniewicz on Unsplash For weeks, the system behaved exactly as designed. Aria had matured from a directory of experiments into a stable local agent: custom tools, a conversational interface, a growing memory layer, scheduled journaling, and enough reliability to test new ideas without worrying about what might break. Luna, the quieter counterpart…

  Dom

  November 23, 2025

  data strategy, Philosophy, technology

  architecture, availability, DevOps, disaster recovery, engineering culture, engineering strategy, failure, failures, incident response, infra, lessons learned, logistics, operational risk, Process Design, resilience, success, system design, Tech Debt, technology

• Building Aria: Part 3 – The Separation of Brain and Body

  

  By the end of Part 1, Aria had a voice. She could hold a conversation, remember names in a fact table, and respond in Discord as more than just a proof of concept. Part 2 gave her agency: the ability to act through tools, recall through layered memory, and refine her own decisions when a…

  Dom

  September 28, 2025

  Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Project

  AIInfrastructure, AIOrchestration, ArtificialIntelligence, DevOps, EngineeringLeadership, FastAPI, LLMEngineering, MachineLearning, MCP, MemoryArchitecture, ModularDesign, Ollama, OpenSourceAI, Postgres, PromptEngineering, Qdrant, SelfHostedAI, SoftwareArchitecture, TechBlog, ToolUse, VectorDatabases