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Making cloud run itself,
one agent at a time.
Hands-on writing on agentic infrastructure, MCP, and reliability — from someone shipping it in production at a Fortune-500 aviation platform, not theorizing about it. By Ajin Baby.
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An agent breached Hugging Face in 4.5 days. The controls that would have stopped it are boring.
Hugging Face's July 2026 postmortem is the clearest agent-intrusion writeup we have. The failures were IMDS, admission policy, and one shared credential.
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Your cluster has GPUs. That doesn't make it AI-ready.
CNCF's Kubernetes AI Conformance program is a portability standard. Read it as a self-audit instead and it becomes a genuinely useful platform checklist.
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Compaction is a reliability event, and you are not measuring it
New research on long-horizon agents finds context compression degrades execution, not knowledge. Treat every compaction as a state transition and instrument it.
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Ajin Baby — 15 years making cloud platforms reliable, 2x founder before that. Azure AI Engineer, Neo4j Certified, IEEE member. More about me →