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Designing for intermittent connectivity is not a degraded mode

Most systems treat disconnection as an exception to recover from. Across much of our footprint it is the normal operating condition, and that changes the architecture.

Amara NwosuAug 17, 2026

EngineeringSecurity1 min

Residency-first placement, and why latency comes second

Most schedulers optimise latency and treat data residency as a deployment-time checkbox. We invert that, because one of the two is a legal requirement.

Amara NwosuJul 14, 2026