For everyone evaluating CME

Field notes.

From the build. No round-up posts, no listicles. We write when we learned something.

For Engineering leaders

We built AWS-only. On purpose.

Three-cloud breadth dilutes the brain. Org-aware AWS depth — Identity Center, SCPs, Bedrock guardrails — beats surface multi-cloud.
March 4, 2026
For Cloud + DevOps engineers

What we learned ingesting NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5

1,000+ pages, table-of-contents pages that look like criteria, control IDs that span multiple paragraphs. Field notes on the chunker + extractor we tuned.
February 19, 2026