A small archive of independent research.

The quiet capture of organizational workflows

How small integration decisions compound into platform-defined operating models — and why exit becomes structurally harder long before anyone decides to leave.

— First in an ongoing series on workflow capture.

Identity providers as single points of governance

When a single identity layer mediates access to every internal system, governance and availability become the same surface. A close reading of the cascade failure pattern.

When SaaS pricing becomes infrastructure policy

Seat, usage, tier and commitment models create economic signals that can shape access, architecture and supplier concentration — read against published vendor documentation.

Observability stacks and the new lock-in surface

Open standards have made telemetry portable. Queries, dashboards, alert logic and operational knowledge are a separate question — the distinction between data portability and operational portability.

Data warehouse egress as exit cost

Egress is the visible, measurable part of leaving a data warehouse. Read against Snowflake and Google Cloud documentation, the wider reversibility question concerns the schemas, SQL logic, transformations and scheduled workloads built around the data.

When portable code meets platform-shaped workflows

Git keeps source code and its history portable. Read against Git, GitHub and GitLab documentation, the automation, execution environments, integrations and operating knowledge built around a hosted repository are a separate question.