New here? Welcome. vExpose is my public workbench — where I state the call a technology leader has to make, then prove it in code, architecture, and benchmarks. One conviction runs through all of it: AI fails in the operating model, not the model. The tool is not the transformation. Below is the fastest way in, organized by the four things I write about.
Latest from vExpose
The most recent posts, newest first — always current.
- A Reference Architecture for Enterprise RAG (That Won’t Hallucinate Your Docs)
- The ServiceNow REST pagination gotcha that silently drops records
- The Benchmark Trap: Why Your Storage Numbers Lie — and How to Get Honest Ones
- vExpose is back — and it’s changing
- A Reference Architecture for Agentic ITSM: Wiring GenAI into ServiceNow Without Losing Control
- Integrating Generative AI in ITSM Workflows
GenAI × Enterprise Infrastructure
Putting AI into real systems — the architectures, tradeoffs, and platforms underneath enterprise GenAI.
- A Reference Architecture for Enterprise RAG (That Won’t Hallucinate Your Docs) — flagship
- A Reference Architecture for Agentic ITSM: Wiring GenAI into ServiceNow Without Losing Control — flagship
- Integrating Generative AI in ITSM Workflows
- The Evolution of IT Infrastructure: Why Disaggregated Platforms Are the Future for GenAI
- GenAI as a Replacement for Enterprise Search: Revolution or Evolution?
Platform & Architecture Strategy
The build-vs-buy calls, the operating-DNA decisions, and the tradeoffs that decide whether a platform scales or stalls.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security Best Practices
- Murphy’s Law: How to Stall Your Kubernetes Enterprise Rollout
- Multi-Cloud Agility with Governance in ServiceNow
- What Is Container Storage Integration (CSI) and Why Now?
- The EU AI Act: A New Framework for AI
Automation & IaC in Practice
Hands-on, reproducible engineering — Ansible, Kubernetes, Python, ServiceNow, and REST APIs, with code you can lift.
- Using Ansible to Run Terraform Plans
- Ansible Dynamic Inventory Tutorial
- ServiceNow CMDB REST API Tutorial
- Creating ServiceNow Incidents via REST API
- Manage Kubernetes with Ansible
Performance & Benchmarking
My signature discipline: measure it. Real methodology, real numbers — the fio/vdbench kind.
- How to Benchmark Enterprise Storage: Fio and Vdbench Explained
- Database Performance Benchmarking with HammerDB
- Best Practices for Running Oracle Database on XtremIO X2
Field Notes
Short, high-utility fixes for problems that cost me hours — so they cost you minutes.
- Keep a Container Alive to Troubleshoot It
- Podman Build Fails with /etc/passwd: Permission Denied
- Ubuntu VMs Get the Same IP from DHCP in vSphere
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