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For Business
RAID Is Not a Backup: Risks and Recovery Costs
RAID buys uptime, not recoverability. The rebuild math, the failure modes it never covered, and why array recovery bills by the disk.
For Technical Teams
Why SD Cards Fail in Field Devices
Consumer SD cards fail in the field for reasons that are not bad luck. The fix is a write budget and a read-only rootfs, not a bigger card.
For Technical Teams
SBOMs: Check Licenses Before Software Delivery
A build carries a thousand licenses. An SBOM plus a policy gate in CI is how you find the three that will cause a problem at delivery.
For Technical Teams
SNMP for CCTV: Check the Camera and Its Video
A video analytics deployment is only as good as its cameras being alive. SNMP polling with net-snmp plus RTSP frame-age checks catches the ones that aren't.
For Business
Why AI Coding Pilots Stall Before Production
Assess AI coding pilots through business value, code quality, and safe access before expanding them into client work.
For Business
Bus Factor: When One Person Is the Single Point of Failure
What happens when the only person who knows the deploy process, the vault password, or the vendor contact walks out the door.
For Business
ESP32 Retrofit: Costs and Risks of Vendor Lock-In
A $120k bowling system replaced with $1,600 in ESP32s. What that HN thread says about vendor lock-in, and how to scope a retrofit safely.
For Business
QRIS MDR on 1 October 2026: Integration Checks
BI's Oct 1 QRIS MDR expansion isn't just a fee cut. It's a fee-logic change your POS and gateway integration has to handle correctly.
For Business
UU PDP Fines in 2026: Business Obligations Remain
The 2026 criminal fine adjustment does not remove data-protection duties. Review access, retention, vendor contracts, and incident procedures.
For Technical Teams
CCTV Firmware Hardening Before Commissioning
Check CCTV accounts, firmware, stream authentication, network access, and logs before commissioning; adapt the checklist to each model.
For Business
Cloudflare Outages: Checking Shared Vendor Dependencies
20 status-page incidents in 8 days at Cloudflare, and the credential-rotation slip that caused an earlier one. What SMEs should check.
For Business
99.9% Uptime SLA: What Does Your Vendor Promise?
Translate SLA percentages into real downtime, learn what credits actually cover, and use an error budget instead of shopping for more nines.