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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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MCP Server Cards Are Final. The Best Decision Was What They Left Out.
SEP-2127 merged on 6 October: a card says who an MCP server is and where to connect, but never what tools it has. Why that's right, and where it's too relaxed.
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The Mitigation Was the Outage: Reading Google's us-central1 Storage Report Like an SRE
Google's preliminary report on the 8 Oct Cloud Storage incident: an optimisation exhausted the nodes it meant to relieve, and emergency capacity wasn't there.
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Evals for AI SRE Agents: The Test Suite Your On-Call Bot Doesn't Have
Replayed incidents, frozen tool responses, deterministic graders, and pass^k instead of one lucky run. How to evaluate an AI SRE agent without fooling yourself.
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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 →