Future Proof Tech Briefing
Briefing
The Future Proof Tech Briefing is my irregular newsletter on the structural shifts in infrastructure, AI and platform architecture. Every article goes here first, then to LinkedIn. When there's something to say, you read it here first.
- 8 minutes
RAMmageddon, Part 10: The Spice Is Allocated
Herbert's Spice economy in 2027: DRAM and HBM capacity reportedly already fully allocated, allocation quotas of 60 to 70 percent, long-term contracts running three to five years — and why the DigitalWasteland inside your own house is now a procurement question.
- 7 minutes
RAMmageddon Part 9: The Kitchen-Table Moment
Kubrick's monolith now sits on your kitchen table: DDR5 kits up to 440 percent more expensive year over year, Micron's $100 billion contracts, Lenovo's survival guide — and why architecture is the answer to the question of control.
- 5 minutes
Modern software protects itself — older software doesn't. What that means for your hardware.
Cloud-native software protects itself, legacy software relies on the infrastructure — and that one difference decides what your hardware has to look like.
- 6 minutes
RAMmageddon: The six-figure license bill nobody recalculates
SQL Server licenses are often the bigger 2026 cost item than the hardware — why consolidation is the underestimated saving lever.
- 12 minutes
RAMmageddon Part 7: From data warehouse to AI door-opener
Why data modernization in 2026 hits three flies with one swat — hardware footprint, license cost, and AI readiness in a single architectural move.
- 10 minutes
RAMmageddon UC 06: 80 VMs become 12 Kubernetes nodes — fully costed
A synthetic but realistic reference model: how consolidation onto VVF/VKS pencils out against a like-for-like refresh — license cores, RAM procurement, vSAN entitlement, and Pure as an S3 capacity tier. With assumptions disclosed for your own recalculation.
- 9 minutes
RAMmageddon Part 6: From bottleneck to structural reset
What many still misread as a cyclical bottleneck is a structural reset of the memory market. Q2-2026 numbers, why 'wait it out' is the most expensive strategy, and the five principles of the response doctrine.
- 10 minutes
RAMmageddon Part 5: The map — seven patterns in which money evaporates in 2026
Seven patterns in the data center where money evaporates in 2026 — plus the bridge over sovereign European cloud providers and open-source platforms.
- 6 minutes
RAMmageddon Part 4: Hardware lens off, service lens on
Why classic sizing is the wrong tool in 2026 — and how a different reading of the same dataset saves the refresh budget.
- 6 minutes
An AI prompt is not text. It is software.
Why the real value of AI-assisted coding isn't speed — it's the discipline it forces on you.
- 12 minutes
RAMmageddon Part 3: Why software is now the only answer
Google's TurboQuant proves what this series has been arguing since Part 1: smarter software needs less hardware. Plus the tools — AI-assisted coding — and why the right hands at the wheel decide whether POCs become enterprise software.
- 11 minutes
RAMmageddon Part 2: The geopolitical escalation — and why preparation matters even more now
Tariffs, export controls and the Iran conflict are turning the 2026 hardware crisis into a perfect storm. Why data sovereignty and vendor diversification are becoming strategic mandates — and why software modernization is the real answer.
- 8 minutes
RAMmageddon Part 1: Hardware renewal 2026 — time for preparation, not panic orders
A structural memory shortage, driven by the AI build-out, is fundamentally changing hardware procurement in 2026. Why the right answer is not lift-and-shift, but the architecture work we never gave ourselves time to do.