Marcus Wright

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Cloud infrastructure and DevOps practitioner. Kubernetes, FinOps, and supply chain security.

7 articles

SASE in 2026: Performance and Security Are Being Designed Together

Cloud networking trends show a convergence of secure access, transport resilience, and policy consistency.

Teams are balancing model quality, latency, and cost with architecture-level controls rather than one-time optimization.

Cost and latency pressure are pushing teams to run compact models closer to users.

Enterprise announcements around Qwen-class on-prem models show a shift from experimentation to governed, costed, and auditable internal AI platforms.

Machine-originated traffic patterns require new controls beyond user-centric API assumptions.

Internal developer platforms are shifting from tooling bundles to productized services.

Sustainability goals are translating into workload scheduling and infrastructure decisions.