Mike Ng — WritingTechnical articles on SRE, cloud architecture, and systems.https://mikeng.io/Fresh but not isolated: the MicroVM tradeoff in CIhttps://mikeng.io/writing/fresh-not-isolated-microvm-tradeoff-in-ci/https://mikeng.io/writing/fresh-not-isolated-microvm-tradeoff-in-ci/AI sandbox escapes expose the flaw in container boundaries. Lambda MicroVMs isolate—but snapshot-restore silently breaks your CI freshness proof.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Inversion of AI Tooling: From Access to Architecturehttps://mikeng.io/writing/inversion-of-ai-tooling-from-access-to-architecture/https://mikeng.io/writing/inversion-of-ai-tooling-from-access-to-architecture/Access to AI tools is solved. Now the hard part: orchestrating three agents, three memories, and trust boundaries. Here's the stack that scales.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAgents Need Architecture, Not Promptshttps://mikeng.io/writing/agents-need-architecture-not-prompts/https://mikeng.io/writing/agents-need-architecture-not-prompts/AgentSession 2847 migrated protected state and marked its own work PASS. Five engineering decisions that keep agent autonomy inside operational boundaries.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Last Six Months Before AI Compounding Hardenshttps://mikeng.io/writing/last-six-months-before-ai-compounding-hardens/https://mikeng.io/writing/last-six-months-before-ai-compounding-hardens/2026 H2 is the preflight window before AI adoption gaps start hardening into structural advantage. Here's how to know which side you're building toward.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTInvisible Fences for Production AI Agentshttps://mikeng.io/writing/invisible-fences-for-production-ai-agents/https://mikeng.io/writing/invisible-fences-for-production-ai-agents/As AI agents gain autonomy, traditional monitoring fails. Here's why infrastructure must shift from reactive alerts to preemptive constraint architectures.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenClaw: The AI That Lives in My Househttps://mikeng.io/writing/openclaw-what-it-is/https://mikeng.io/writing/openclaw-what-it-is/What a self-hosted agent runtime is, how to get one running, and the one mistake almost everyone makes with model selection.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Hong Kong AI Setup: Access, Payment, and the Tools I Actually Usehttps://mikeng.io/writing/hk-ai-tools-setup-2026/https://mikeng.io/writing/hk-ai-tools-setup-2026/Three problems stand between Hong Kong and modern AI tools. Here is how I solved all of them.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhen the Internet Stopped Being Human-Onlyhttps://mikeng.io/writing/when-internet-stopped-being-human-only/https://mikeng.io/writing/when-internet-stopped-being-human-only/Autonomous agents, decentralised infrastructure, persistent digital worlds and local compute converged quietly. The internet found residents who never log out.Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT