Category: platform architecture
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Self-service without guardrails is just delegated infrastructure access with a nicer interface. In this post I look at guardrails in the VCF Automation 9.1 All Apps model, and how organizations, quotas, namespaces, networking, policies, and extensibility work together to make private cloud consumption safer and more repeatable.
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In my previous article, I reflected on what I would design differently if I were building an NSX platform today. That piece focused on architectural choices — fewer abstractions, clearer boundaries, stronger defaults. But design decisions are only part of the story. What ultimately matters is who carries responsibility for how the platform behaves over…