Thomas Staub / vStaub

vStaub is where I think through infrastructure, architecture, AI, and the parts of technical work that rarely fit cleanly into a diagram.

Some posts will be technical. Some will be about decisions, trade-offs, career, operating models, and the human systems around engineering. Mostly, this is a place to document what I'm learning before it turns into something too polished.

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Latest Posts

Recent thinking from the blog.

Relaunching vStaub

Why this site is starting small: infrastructure, AI, architecture, career observations, and the useful experiments that keep changing how I think.

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What shows up here

The same problems keep showing up in different forms.

Most of my work starts somewhere around infrastructure, networking, architecture, AI-assisted workflows, or operations. But the interesting part is usually the layer underneath: unclear ownership, imperfect information, production feedback, incentives, documentation, review, and the trade-offs people have to live with after the diagram is done.

A few threads

The themes underneath the posts.

Infrastructure and architecture

How intent turns into systems people can operate, change, troubleshoot, and explain under pressure.

Network engineering and observability

The loop between design, packet paths, telemetry, validation, and what production teaches after the diagram is done.

AI-assisted work

Where AI helps with context, drafting, review, and decision support, and where it needs boundaries to stay useful.

Career, decisions, and operating models

The parts of technical work that depend on judgment, communication, incentives, and reducing uncertainty with other people.

Experiments, tools, and useful rabbit holes

Small investigations worth capturing because they sharpen a workflow, a taste, or a way of thinking.