Email WitchOps ENGINEERING / FIELD NOTES + TOOLS
Practical writing and working tools for platform migrations, infrastructure automation, delivery security and the judgment required when architecture meets real constraints.
INTERACTIVE TOOL
Browser-based planning guidance.
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Supply six repository facts and receive a transparent Standard, Review Required or Transformation Required path. Every triggered rule remains visible, and the result can be copied or exported as JSON.
ARTICLES / CASE STUDIES
· Adapted from LinkedIn
Infrastructure contributions to the Levi Strauss & Co. AI Super Agent initiative through Xebia. Extending shared Terraform modules while preserving existing consumers, governance, network boundaries and identity requirements.
· 7 min read
A professional case study spanning hybrid hosting, monolithic IIS applications, application diagnosis, delivery pipelines, monitoring, disaster recovery and the code-level improvements that infrastructure alone could not provide.
· 8 min read
An evidence-backed architecture case study about deterministic address space, stable module ownership, default-deny workload subnets and the boundary between tested configuration and trusted deployment.
· 13 min read
An evidence-backed case study of signed artifact verification, a real GitHub CLI failure and fix, and a separate HTTP recovery rehearsal with retained results.
· 7 min read
Why a platform migration should extract shared delivery contracts instead of recreating every classic pipeline—and where standardization must stop.
· 6 min read
A field account of binary-heavy repositories, constrained automation, interim Azure infrastructure, reusable GitHub Actions, GHAS rollout, Python validation and a one-week schedule decision.
· 10 min read
A detailed case study of bounded model input, deterministic policy, response validation, two recorded model failures and the fixes that made the result inspectable.
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