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Year in Review

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2025 Year in Review: AI Stopped Being Special December 22, 2025 · 5 min The operational shift in AI during 2025: evals, governance in CI, cost routing. The novelty phase is over and the infrastructure phase has begun. year-in-review ai reflection

2024: The Year AI Got Boring (In a Good Way) December 16, 2024 · 4 min My 2024 in AI: the demo phase ended and production work began. What held up, what surprised me, and what stayed hard across a year of hands-on AI work. year-in-review ai reflection

2023 Year in Review: LLM Integration, Payments, and Go December 25, 2023 · 4 min Looking back at 2023: LLM integration work, Go backends for payments, production AI deployments, watching the AI platform shift, and what stayed hard. year-in-review ai reflection

2022 Year in Review: The Year the Music Stopped December 26, 2022 · 5 min A personal look back at 2022: building through the downturn, watching ChatGPT arrive, and what the year taught me about building things that last. year-in-review reflection ai

2021 in Review: The Year Everything We Ignored Caught Fire December 27, 2021 · 5 min 2021 in review: a job change, cleanup work, Log4j and the us-east-1 outage as inventory tests, OpenTelemetry going real, and what I got wrong. year-in-review security reflection

2020 in Review: The Year That Broke the Playbook December 28, 2020 · 5 min My company survived its first real crisis, I led teams at two larger platforms, and the industry learned what remote work looks like. A strange year. year-in-review infrastructure remote-work

2019 in Review: The Year I Quit, Built, and Started Over December 16, 2019 · 5 min Leaving the fintech startup, joining a founder program, starting a cloud infrastructure company, and every lesson the year threw at me. year-in-review startups reflection

2018 in Review: Spectre, GDPR, and a Humbled Tech Industry December 24, 2018 · 6 min A personal look back at 2018: Spectre and Meltdown, the GDPR scramble, a startup accelerator, Kubernetes winning, and what to watch in 2019. year-in-review trends reflection

2016 in Review: The Year I Stopped Fighting Infrastructure December 28, 2016 · 4 min My 2016 in review: Docker went mainstream, Kubernetes pulled ahead, Go earned its place, serverless lagged, and what a mobility startup taught me. year-in-review trends engineering