The ScaleLogic Newsletter
Notes from the production trenches
Practical technology insights from 30 years of building, operating, and untangling production systems — written by someone who still ships code, runs a private colo, and reads PCI audit reports.
Not thought-leadership. Not AI hype. War stories, frameworks, and opinions from the trenches of mid-market technology.
What you'll get
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War stories from real client work
The outages, the bad audits, the legacy migrations that almost went sideways. Anonymized when needed, specific when they can be.
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Frameworks you'll actually use
How to evaluate a fractional CTO. Build vs. buy decisions. Vendor scoring matrices. Decision tools refined across 250+ client engagements.
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Operator takes on what the industry gets wrong
Opinions you won't find in a vendor whitepaper. Specific recommendations. Specific things to avoid. Honest disagreement with "best practice" when it deserves it.
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Who this is for
Founders, CTOs, ops leaders, and senior engineers at mid-market companies — the people making real decisions about real production systems on real budgets. Not the Fortune 500 with unlimited spend, and not the seed-stage startup still figuring out the stack.
If you've ever had to defend a technology choice to a board, untangle a vendor lock-in, or explain to a non-technical executive why "just rewrite it" isn't free — this is for you.