Run
The platform runtime: apps and databases, secrets management, provisioning, portability.
Runtime
where apps and agents actually execute
Data and state
provisioned, owned, backed up
Secrets
injected at runtime, never in code or chat
Provisioning
self-service, provision-build-deploy as one motion
Portability
the runtime goes where the data goes
Everything people build has to run somewhere. If you don’t give it a place, it runs in a personal account.
The surface:
- Application runtime: where apps and agents execute: containers, functions, jobs, long-running services.
- Databases and state: the data stores apps need, provisioned on demand, backed up, owned.
- Secrets management: credentials, tokens, and keys injected at runtime, never in code or chat history.
- Provisioning: self-service infrastructure with paved roads; internal alternatives to Railway, Heroku, OpenShift.
- Portability: hybrid by default: public clouds, private datacenters, edge, inside one organization. The runtime goes where your data goes.
- Elasticity vs reliability: SRE principles over “just scale it”: capacity you understand, failure modes you’ve rehearsed.
Questions to ask: When someone finishes building something useful, what is the sanctioned path to production? How long does it take? Does it work in every environment your data lives in?
R → O
Run hands off to Observe. See what it is doing.