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The Mental Model That Keeps Small Projects From Becoming Big Monoliths
How building two AI systems taught me the discipline of platform vs. application boundaries
Sep 8
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
🛠️ AI, Vibe-Coding, and the Illusion of Speed
What prepping #VirtualCTOAdvisor for open source taught me about platform responsibility, product thinking, and business risk
Sep 5
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
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We Train the Models, But Not the Operations - Welcome to Vibe-Ops
Welcome to “Day 2” for AI agents — and the rise of Vibe-Ops
Sep 4
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
August 2025
Day 2: The CTO Advisor's Lab – Prototyping AIOps for the Modern Enterprise
A CTO's Guide to Vibe-Coding, AIOps, and the Future of Enterprise Workloads.
Aug 22
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
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I Lost My Voice
How burying prompts in app code left me speechless—and why platform teams need prompt management.
Aug 21
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
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What My RAG Experiment Taught Me About Platform Engineering for AI Workloads
I didn’t set out to become an AI architect.
Aug 20
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
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Governance Isn’t a Roadblock: It’s How You Handle the Off-ramps
Why exceptions test organizational maturity more than platform design
Aug 19
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
Build Day 0: Engineering the Virtual CTO Advisor with Google Cloud Vertex AI
AI-Powered Strategic Guidance, Grounded in Real-World Experience
Aug 18
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
VCF 9: The Ops Layer Is the Real Story
Broadcom’s release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9 is more than a version bump.
Aug 15
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
Scale Breaks Everything: Knowing When to Make GitOps a Platform Capability
Seven signs your GitOps practice has outgrown “team experiment” status and needs the support, standards, and funding of a true platform service.
Aug 14
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
FinOps and GitOps: Why “One-Size-Fits-All” Is a Trap for Enterprise IT
The enterprise graveyard is littered with the ghosts of initiatives that promised a clean, “one-size-fits-all” fix.
Aug 13
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
When GitOps Isn’t the Right Tool for the Job
A practical look at when GitOps adds complexity instead of clarity
Aug 12
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
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