'Drones' - Photo by Ryan Murphy A tale as old as time: modern AI models are too large, complex, and resource-intensive for a single chip to handle. Training them is not like running an application on a single machine. It's a distributed systems problem, closer to coordinating a warehouse full of machines that all have to stay in lockstep. I did a deep dive into this topic from a Security Engineer's point of view back in April 2026, when I was certain AI was going to take my j

Grand Teton National Park; photo by Ryan Murphy. "Success won't be measured by the speed of adoption, but by the direction it takes." Over the past year, I've had the same exact conversation with friends, colleagues, and peers across multiple industries: leaders are pushing hard for company-wide AI adoption, and with good reason. According to a February 2026 Google/Ipsos survey, AI Fluent employees save a median of 8 hours per week compared to 3 hours for casual users . The d

Marie Kondo may not be the first person to come to mind when you first login to your GCP, AWS or Azure console in the morning. However,...

The most recent vulnerability in Apache's Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) took the world by storm on Thursday night (12/9/21). By now there are...