One DNS authority, eight zones
vagarylabs.com moved from its registrar's nameservers to the single Cloudflare authority the rest of the fleet runs under — DNSSEC, mail, and MTA-STS wired in the same cutover.
The technology and research division of Vagary Labs LLP
We build the platform that runs our own products.
Vagary Labs designs, builds, and operates the shared platform under Index of News, Attorney Atlas, Vagary Voice, and the rest of the fleet — and publishes what we learn.
187
services under operation across the fleet
3
live product surfaces on the platform
3
public open-source projects
8
zones under one DNS authority
Platform
One substrate, many surfaces.
Identity, speech, retrieval, billing, and delivery run once and are consumed by every product. The topology page maps the fleet; the plan page records where it is going.
Open source
Tooling we use, published.
bulk
CSV-driven bulk HTTP/webhook runner with a thread-pooled send engine.
tldv_downloader
Fast TLDV video downloader with N_m3u8DL-RE support.
pulseboard
Internal-turned-OSS Android network-quality monitor.
Notes
Writing from the build.
Topology convergence: one console, one namespace
The platform retired duplicated console concepts and folded the fleet into a single derived navigation — the registry, not a hand-maintained menu, now answers where anything lives.
Observability as a product requirement
Every product surface ships with a monitor, a blackbox probe, and an error project before it goes live — not after an incident proves they are missing.