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Azure now requires MFA to change resources from the CLI: what breaks in your automation
Since 1 July there are no deferrals left: creating, updating or deleting Azure resources with a user account requires MFA, from Terraform or the SDK too. What breaks, how to find it, and what changes in Google Cloud on 20 October.
Wilson Vargas Martínez9 minSep 24, 2026Read- 02Development
npm v12 stopped running install scripts: what changes in your pipeline
After a year of self-replicating worms in the registry, npm turned off install scripts, Git dependencies and remote URLs by default. No Node.js line ships that npm yet: you have to ask for it.
Wilson Vargas Martínez10 minSep 21, 2026 - 03Data
SQL Server 2016 is out of support: pay for ESU, upgrade or migrate?
Extended support ended on 14 July. What ESUs cover and how they are billed, why an in-place upgrade collides with Windows Server 2016, and what breaks when you jump to SQL Server 2025.
Wilson Vargas Martínez9 minSep 17, 2026 - 04AI
Marking AI-generated content: what Europe requires since August 2026
The digital omnibus deferred high-risk rules to December 2027, but Article 50 landed on 2 August. What it requires, who it reaches from LATAM, and what changes in the code.
Wilson Vargas Martínez10 minSep 14, 2026 - 05Cloud
We migrated our platform from traditional hosting to the edge: the real numbers
TTFB from 1,068 ms to 259 ms, US$0/month infrastructure and three features that had been broken for months. What went well, what broke silently and what we would do differently.
Wilson Vargas Martínez9 minAug 12, 2026 - 06Cloud
Multi-cloud DevSecOps in LATAM 2026: the minimum viable checklist
What every mid-sized company in Colombia should have in place before fiscal year-end. No theory — only controls that actually move the needle.
Wilson Vargas Martínez7 minMay 14, 2026 - 07Cloud
How to cut AWS spend by 30–50% without breaking production
No magic, no generic rightsizing. It is the specific order of levers we pull with clients paying inflated bills out of habit, not need.
Nicolás Montenegro8 minMay 12, 2026 - 08Cross-functional
ISO 27001 + PCI-DSS for mid-sized LATAM fintechs: the practical path
How not to burn 9 months and 200k USD. The real order of activities we see working — and which shortcuts are legitimate and which are not.
Nodier Solano9 minMay 11, 2026 - 09Data
Power BI vs Tableau vs Looker in 2026: how to decide without an agenda
We do not sell licenses. This is the honest comparison we give clients who ask "which one should I use". It depends on five concrete questions.
Wilson Vargas Martínez9 minMay 9, 2026 - 10AI
AI agents in production: guardrails, evals, and when NOT to use them
What we learned helping build CyberFort Lab, with 9 agents running 24/7. No theory — only the decisions that keep an agent from doing harm or burning money.
Wilson Vargas Martínez9 minMay 7, 2026 - 11Data
Lakehouse in LATAM: Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery
The three platforms converge but the three remain different. What we see working for mid-sized companies in Colombia, Mexico and Chile.
Sebastian Tilagui8 minMay 5, 2026 - 12Development
Stack to launch a SaaS in 90 days without piling up tech debt
The decisions you keep and the ones you break later. Specifically for founders racing to first paying customer in a quarter.
Cristian Agudelo7 minMay 4, 2026 - 13AI
RAG over corporate data: architecture and common mistakes
Why your internal chatbot answers badly and how to fix it. The bottleneck is almost never the model — it is retrieval quality.
Nicolás Montenegro8 minMay 2, 2026 - 14Development
Shopify vs headless commerce: when each one makes sense
Headless sounds modern but it costs a lot. Classic Shopify is good up to a point. The real line between the two is not what marketing people tell you.
Nodier Solano6 minMay 1, 2026 - 15Cross-functional
Consultancy, freelance or in-house: how to choose by stage
Honest model for CTOs and founders deciding where to spend the next technical dollar. Three stages, three different answers.
Sebastian Tilagui6 minApr 30, 2026
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