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The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 6: The Soft Stack — Diplomacy and Strategy

Chapter 6 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The "soft stack" is the part of the FDE skillset most often dismissed as soft. A teaser on MECE, the Pyramid Principle, stakeholder mapping, Managing the Skeptic, the Diplomatic Register, and stress inoculation.
2026-06-01

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 4: The Technical Bar

Chapter 4 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The FDE is, first and last, an engineer. A teaser on the four technical primitives, the non-obvious skills, what you don't need to be, and the four-round interview that actually tests for it.
2026-05-30

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 2: The Last-Mile Problem in Enterprise AI

Chapter 2 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. Where SaaS stopped at the enterprise threshold, AI has to walk the last mile. A teaser on the four frictions at the last mile, the integration tax no demo shows, and why workflow redesign — not the model — is the product.
2026-05-28

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 1: What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer?

Chapter 1 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The opening chapter of a new book — the operator's contradiction, the Palantir origin, the anatomy of the role, why the AI moment needs it now, and how the FDE differs from every sister role it gets confused with.
2026-05-27

Azure Front Door: a practical introduction

What Azure Front Door is, who it's for, what it costs, how it compares to Cloudflare and CloudFront, and a walkthrough of the settings that matter when putting it in front of an Azure App Service.
2026-05-11

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 14: The 30-Day Pilot Framework

Chapter 14 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Every successful AI-native transformation starts as a thirty-day pilot on a single well-scoped project. A teaser on how to scope the first project, the week-by-week playbook, the five-question graduation rubric, and the three pilots that show what works and what doesn't.
2026-04-30

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 4: The Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Chapter 4 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. MCP is to agents what HTTP was to the early Web — a common protocol that turns bespoke integrations into reusable infrastructure. A teaser on host/client/server roles, the anatomy of a good tool, the six anti-patterns, and the security pitfalls every team trips over.
2026-04-20

Frictionless SaaS, Chapter 20: Organizational Design for Frictionless Delivery

The Experience Ownership Model and the Behavior Design Canvas — two reorganizations that stop user experience from falling through the cracks between departments.
2026-04-10

Frictionless SaaS, Chapter 19: Self-Serve Monetization and Growth

The Self-Serve Growth Engine, the Expansion Revenue Framework, and the Seamless Handoff Principle — how to turn upgrades into a natural moment instead of a sales call.
2026-04-09

Frictionless SaaS Chapter 16: The Power of Self-Service

Chapter 16 preview of Frictionless SaaS: the Self-Serve Maturity Model, the Independence Principle, and how self-serve billing and account management turn scalability into a competitive moat.
2026-04-06

Frictionless SaaS Chapter 13: SaaS Metrics, Cohort Analysis, and the North Star

Chapter 13 preview of Frictionless SaaS: the SaaS Metrics Pyramid, Net Revenue Retention, cohort-based optimization, and how to choose a North Star that actually drives retention and revenue.
2026-04-03

Frictionless SaaS Chapter 10: Data Lock-In and Network Lock-In

Chapter 10 preview of Frictionless SaaS: the Data Gravity Effect, the Network Lock-In Model, and how to build structural moats that make churn expensive without being manipulative.
2026-03-31

Frictionless SaaS, Part 0: How Users Actually Find, Judge, and Try Your Product

Kicking off a blog series based on the book "Frictionless SaaS." This first post introduces Chapters 0.1 through 0.3 — Discovery, the Landing Page, and Freemium & Entry Points — the three friction points every user hits before they ever sign up.
2026-03-21

Chapter 17 – Guardrails and Governance

Chapter 17 of Master Claude Chat, Cowork and Code moves from understanding risks to implementing controls — permission isolation, tool allow-lists, human-in-the-loop approval workflows, validation hooks, and enterprise-grade audit logging.
2026-03-18

Chapter 12: User Lifecycle Management — Provisioning, SCIM, and the De-Provisioning Problem

Chapter 12 of the OpenID: Modern Identity series — user lifecycle management: JIT and bulk provisioning, SCIM for cross-system sync, de-provisioning done right, role mapping from IdP claims, and identity architecture for multi-tenant SaaS.
2026-03-18

Chapter 11: MFA and Conditional Access — Dispersing Authentication Risk

Chapter 11 of the OpenID: Modern Identity series — MFA fundamentals across the three factor categories, risk-based adaptive authentication, and step-up authentication using the OIDC acr and amr claims to match assurance to operation sensitivity.
2026-03-17

Chapter 10: Single Sign-On at Scale — Identity as Infrastructure

Chapter 10 of the OpenID: Modern Identity series — running identity at organizational scale: corporate IdPs (AD, Entra ID), the CIAM vendor ecosystem (Okta, Auth0, Entra ID), multi-tenant isolation, account linking, and external user access.
2026-03-16

Chapter 9: SPA and Mobile Patterns — Auth in Hostile Environments

Chapter 9 of the OpenID: Modern Identity series — SPAs and mobile apps in hostile environments: XSS and CSRF defense, PKCE in the browser, the Backend-for-Frontend pattern, native app patterns, and refresh token rotation with reuse detection.
2026-03-15

Chapter 7: Plugins and Domain Specialization — Turning Claude Into Your Organization's Expert

Chapter 7 of Master Claude Chat, Cowork and Code explores how plugins transform Claude from a generalist into a domain expert — with pre-built plugins for Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Legal, slash commands, and organization-managed customization.
2026-03-08

Chapter 2: From OpenID to OpenID Connect — How the Industry Got This One Right

Chapter 2 of the OpenID: Modern Identity series — tracing how the industry moved from the original OpenID and SAML through OAuth 2.0 to OpenID Connect, and when to reach for each standard.
2026-03-08

Chapter 6: What Is Claude Cowork? — The Desktop Agent That Touches Your Files

Chapter 6 of Master Claude Chat, Cowork and Code introduces Claude Cowork — a sandboxed desktop agent that automates file management, data extraction, and cross-application workflows on your local machine.
2026-03-07

OpenID: Modern Identity for Developers and Architects — A 22-Part Blog Series

Introduction and index for the 22-part blog series based on OpenID: Modern Identity for Developers and Architects by Sho Shimoda — with links to every chapter from Why Identity Is Hard through Identity in AI Systems.
2026-03-06

Master Claude Chat, Cowork and Code – The Complete Blog Series

The complete index for the Master Claude Chat, Cowork and Code blog series — 20 chapter teasers covering everything from prompting fundamentals to multi-agent architectures, security governance, and the future of AI-powered work.
2026-03-01

Localization and Multi-Tenant Support｜Mastering Microsoft Teams Bots 4.4

Prepare your Microsoft Teams bot for real-world deployment. This section covers how to support multiple languages using localization, and how to safely handle multiple organizations with multi-tenant support — including tenant isolation, data security, and consent flows.
2025-04-14

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