Blog
Five long-form essays on governed software evolution. Low frequency, high signal — you won't find product-release posts here.
- · 11 min read · architecture · compliance · audit
Governance as Architecture
Merkle chains, eight human checkpoints, and the case for treating governance as a first-class component of the build system.
- · 9 min read · axon · code-graph · refactoring
Blast Radius: the Metric Your PR Review Is Missing
A tree-sitter-backed code graph answers 'what else does this touch?' in under 200ms for a million-line repo. Here's why that changes the review loop.
- · 13 min read · platform-engineering · strategy
Why In-House Platform Engineering Initiatives Fail
The rework cycle every internal platform team runs into, and what a governed evolution system replaces it with.
- · 9 min read · architecture · rust · supply-chain
Pure Rust, Single Binary: Why Shakti Compiles at Build Time
Compile-time prompts, a single audit boundary, and why we rejected a Python shim.
- · 7 min read · llm · byok · security
BYOK Inference and the Locked LLM Layer
Why your LLM provider key should never leave your cluster — and what Shakti's BYOK adapter actually does under the hood.