IOIan Okonuinokonu.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 19 min readHow a Retry Storm and ORDER BY RAND() Took Down Our Platform in Under an HourA postmortem on two unrelated bugs that compounded into a full platform outage — and the fixes deployed under fire. Preface This is a postmortem. Not a theoretical discussion of queue design or datab00
IOIan Okonuinokonu.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 26 min readAnatomy of a Self-Healing WordPress Malware Attack: The Medusa "Vitrin Gate" KitA technical incident response report and research analysis of a sophisticated redirect malware — its architecture, its evasion techniques, the cleanup mistakes that let it survive, and the historical 00
IOIan Okonuinokonu.hashnode.dev·May 2 · 11 min readWhen Confidence Becomes OverconfidenceCalibration Collapse After RLHF; and How to Fix It Without Retraining Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback makes language models more helpful and less harmful. It also makes them systematically 00
IOIan Okonuinokonu.hashnode.dev·Apr 12 · 18 min readAI Agents Are Not Products: Embedding Intelligence Into Business OperationsAbstract AI agent products are proliferating faster than the operational frameworks needed to deploy them well. Most enterprise and SME deployments fail not because the underlying models are incapable00
IOIan Okonuinokonu.hashnode.dev·Apr 5 · 20 min readWhen Does Similarity Stop Working?The Concentration Problem at the Heart of Vector Search Every major embedding model produces hundreds or thousands of dimensions. You use cosine similarity on them. There is a theorem that says this00