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Practical articles on infrastructure management, security, compliance, and how AI is changing the way teams run servers.

AI & Automation May 2026 9 min

Your AI sysadmin never sleeps: how CortexShell changes daily server operations

Most infrastructure teams spend a significant chunk of their week on repetitive tasks — checking disk space, restarting services, reviewing logs. CortexShell doesn't replace your engineers. It handles the boring work so they can focus on what matters. Here's what that looks like in practice at a team managing 30 Linux servers.

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Security April 2026 10 min

Zero shared passwords: eliminating credential risk in a multi-admin environment

Shared root passwords are one of the most common security failures in small and mid-size IT teams — not because people are careless, but because the tooling makes shortcuts too easy. HashiCorp Vault integration and per-user access control change that equation entirely. No one ever sees the credentials they use.

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Compliance March 2026 8 min

Session recording as a compliance tool: why every terminal action should be replayable

When an incident happens — a misconfiguration, a data change, a service outage — the first question is always "what exactly was done, and by whom?" Session recordings answer that question precisely. We look at how audit-ready organisations use terminal playback to meet regulatory requirements without adding process overhead.

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Scaling February 2026 9 min

From one server to a hundred: scaling infrastructure without scaling headcount

The gap between a 5-server setup and a 50-server operation isn't just technical — it's organisational. Teams that grow without the right tooling end up with scattered SSH keys, undocumented runbooks, and two people who "know how everything works." Here's how to close that gap before it becomes a crisis.

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DevOps January 2026 8 min

The browser-based terminal: why your team should never install PuTTY again

SSH clients have barely changed in 20 years. PuTTY, MobaXterm, Terminal.app — they're all fine tools, but they tie access to a specific machine, a specific OS, and a specific person's configuration. A browser-based workspace means every engineer has identical access from any device, with session recording and AI built in from day one.

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