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observability · automation · threat intel

Field notes from pre-sales and infrastructure work — mostly technical, occasionally opinionated. For personal writing, see the archive at lifelibertyelegance.com.

Everyone Wants to Know: How Do You Use AI?

Tools don't just operate autonomously; they need our guidance—we can't just throw our brain out the window.

Turning My House Into a Data Pipeline: An IoT Automation Journey (March 2025)

What started as curiosity about my energy bills turned into a full-blown observability project — using the same tools I worked with professionally (Dynatrace, DQL, custom ingest pipelines)...

From logs to KPIs: what actually convinces a buying committee

Every POC eventually hits the moment where a customer needs to see their own numbers, not a demo dataset. Notes on getting there faster.