Infrastructure on Nick Gomezhttps://nickgomez.me/topics/infrastructure/Recent content in Infrastructure on Nick GomezHugoen-USWed, 22 Jul 2026 11:20:40 -0400Build So You Can Lose the Toolshttps://nickgomez.me/essays/build-so-you-can-lose-the-tools/Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nickgomez.me/essays/build-so-you-can-lose-the-tools/A system you can run but can’t rebuild isn’t really yours. You’re renting comprehension, and the tool isn’t yours.Rebuilding a system that only worked because people remembered howhttps://nickgomez.me/work/system-nobody-could-rebuild/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nickgomez.me/work/system-nobody-could-rebuild/A system that worked only because a few people remembered how, then rebuilt so the knowledge lived in the infrastructure, not in anyone’s head. (It happened to be a malware-scanning fleet; the shape is one every business has.)My own operation, built so it never depends on me rememberinghttps://nickgomez.me/work/own-operation/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nickgomez.me/work/own-operation/Everything I depend on runs on one box I can rebuild from nothing, because I hold my own systems to the standard I sell: written down, reproducible, owned outright. Here’s what that discipline bought me, and what it cost.