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Pavels Gurskis

About Me

For 25 years, I've tackled complex IT challenges with a hands-on, results-focused approach. From managing global IT operations to leading ISO-27001 certification initiatives and implementing AI-driven systems, I specialize in creating order from technical complexity. As an independent IT advisor, I help organizations build resilient infrastructure, strengthen security foundations, and optimize IT investments for genuine business impact. My philosophy is simple: technology should solve problems, not create them - and the right approach combines technical depth with practical implementation.

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Missing Lessons: CloudFlare Outage on 18 Nov 2025

Missing Lessons: CloudFlare Outage on 18 Nov 2025

Public post-mortems provide great learning opportunity for us as tech industry and lead to more reliable internet. In this post we explore few opportunities missed by CloudFlare to avoid same mistakes in our infrastructure.

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Breaking: CloudFlare outage 2025 Nov 18

Breaking: CloudFlare outage 2025 Nov 18

The Cloudflare global network suffered a major internal service degradation, impacting customer-facing services and causing widespread 500 Internal Server Errors across the internet.

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Beyond Uptime: Next-Generation Server Monitoring Strategies

Beyond Uptime: Next-Generation Server Monitoring Strategies

Uptime is usually the first number leaders see for server health, and also the most compressed. It is a headline with almost no story behind it.

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