BitLocker encryption didn’t fail—trust boundaries shifted. When recovery keys are escrowed by default, control becomes conditional. Linux LUKS, VeraCrypt alternatives, and key management strategies for conscious trust decisions.
When geopolitics enters the infrastructure layer, convenience without control becomes fragile. Real incidents, technical alternatives, and why sovereignty requires deliberate architecture.
A real wake-up call for every SMB: How Shakthi Auto Components in Raipur lost 5 years of production data in one power surge, the ₹3 crore impact, and the complete open source backup solution DevOps Den built for ₹1.5 lakhs/year
A pragmatic introduction to open source for enterprises, focusing on choice, governance, and real-world decision making rather than ideology or cost alone.
What a traditional cooking oil taught me about how institutions think about risk, familiarity, and trust, and why the same flawed logic shapes enterprise attitudes toward open source software.
A reflection on the lessons learned from building, innovating, and realizing that execution and amplification matter more than invention alone.
From SourceForge to GitHub to what comes next - tracing the evolution of open source collaboration platforms and the lessons hidden in their rise and fall.
There is a particular kind of disappointment that comes not from failure, but from betrayal. Not the dramatic kind. The quiet kind. The kind where something you trusted, something you built around, something you advocated for, simply changes the rules. That is what the Terraform licensing shift felt like. Not a catastrophe. Not an emergency. Just a slow, uncomfortable realization that the ground had moved beneath our feet. The Relationship We Had Terraform was not just a tool. It was an idea. ...
The journey from technology zealot to pragmatic problem-solver. Passion is the fuel, but pragmatism is the compass.