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Notes from the yard.

Engineering notes and announcements. Written for the engineer with the problem, not for a feed.

Why I built a one-binary alternative to AWX

AWX needs Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, and Receptor before it runs a playbook. SwitchTender runs the same playbooks from one Go binary, paints every run as a live host-by-task matrix, and imports your AWX projects in one command. July 2026.