https://anandpatel.com/blog/ Engineering leadership, infrastructure, and AI. en-us Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-08-03-local-ai-regulated/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-08-03-local-ai-regulated/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT For regulated data, running models on infrastructure you operate is not a cost decision. It is about converting a contractual promise into a technical constraint. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-07-20-cyber-resilience-act/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-07-20-cyber-resilience-act/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A law can only address products. Engineering has only layers. A thought piece on the Cyber Resilience Act, the questions its text cannot answer, and the requirements that computing does not permit. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-07-14-digital-theft/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-07-14-digital-theft/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Burglary has been falling for thirty years while fraud losses set records. Theft did not decline, it relocated, and self-custodied digital assets quietly moved the single point of failure back into the house. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-06-16-hiring-engineers/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-06-16-hiring-engineers/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Producing plausible code is free, which broke the technical interview, moved the bottleneck from production to verification, and removed the bottom rung of the engineering career ladder. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-05-11-cto-to-manager/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-05-11-cto-to-manager/ Mon, 11 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why I went from co-founder and CTO to engineering manager: what the CTO job actually was, four years of doing two jobs at once, and the arithmetic founders avoid discussing. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-04-14-build-vs-buy/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-04-14-build-vs-buy/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT The build-vs-buy calculus for AI infrastructure: what owning actually costs, what Trainium changes, and why data sensitivity belongs in the model. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-03-22-ai-tools-rollout/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-03-22-ai-tools-rollout/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT How I'd introduce AI coding tools to an engineering org: what to decide first, how to pilot it, how to measure it honestly, and what changes about code review. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-02-09-staying-hands-on/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2026-02-09-staying-hands-on/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT On keeping technical judgment as an engineering leader, what actually erodes when you stop building, and where hands-on becomes meddling. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2025-12-20-ai-2025/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2025-12-20-ai-2025/ Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT An AI year in review for 2025, written from a four-GPU box in a spare room: the frontier, open weights, the agentic turn, prompt injection, criminal misuse, the money, and an honest list of what could not be tested. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2025-07-18-omada-to-unifi/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2025-07-18-omada-to-unifi/ Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMT Why I chose TP-Link Omada over UniFi, what it actually cost me, and why I ended up buying UniFi anyway. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2025-03-24-legacy-rewrite/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2025-03-24-legacy-rewrite/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT March 2025. Companies are right to refuse rewrites, until the upgrade path physically ends. What deferring technical debt actually costs, and a step-by-step plan for the rewrite nobody wanted. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2025-02-25-onprem-to-cloud/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2025-02-25-onprem-to-cloud/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT February 2025. Moving twenty-year-old systems out of two racks and into cloud native: what gets faster, what gets expensive, and why the naming convention decides whether the estate stays manageable. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2025-01-17-ai-journey/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2025-01-17-ai-journey/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT A homelab experiment in keeping serious AI coding local. The build, what runs on it, and what broke. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2024-04-05-truenas-build/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2024-04-05-truenas-build/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT TrueNAS on Proxmox: why SCALE over CORE after FreeBSD was shelved, the hardware, striped mirrors over RAIDZ, and why virtualizing a NAS is defensible if you pass the controller. https://anandpatel.com/blog/2024-02-04-vmware-alternatives/ https://anandpatel.com/blog/2024-02-04-vmware-alternatives/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 12:00:00 GMT February 2024. What Broadcom changed at VMware, why they did it, and which hypervisors were realistic replacements for a GPU-heavy home lab.