What Financial Services Taught Me About Saying No
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How to Build a Platform Engineering Team & Internal Developer Portal: Lessons from Modern Engineering Organizations
Platform engineering has become one of the fastest-growing disciplines in software engineering. As organizations scale, the number of services, pipeli…
Picking the Latest Kubernetes Release on AKS Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot
Picking the Latest Kubernetes Release on AKS Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot Every few months a platform engineer opens a Slack message that rea…
AKS and Near-Bare-Metal Workloads: What Platform Teams Can Responsibly Plan For
AKS and Near-Bare-Metal Workloads: What Platform Teams Can Responsibly Plan For Every few months a team shows up with a workload that has opinions abo…
Left of the Loop: The Kybernetes
The kybernetes was the helmsman who steered a Greek ship, reading the wind and working the steering-oar to hold a course. The word is the root of two …
Left of the Loop: The Agora
The Athenian agora wasn't a building. It was an open space where citizens gathered to think in public — argument, trade, philosophy, policy, all happe…
Backstage alternatives in 2026: first ask why you wanted Backstage
Every "Backstage alternatives" roundup lists the same five portals. None of them asks the question that decides which alternative is right: what job s…
From NDVI to a Generic Spectral Engine: Architecting Scalable Earth Observation Pipelines.
Scaling AgTech Analytics: From NDVI to a Generic Spectral Engine Meta Description: Discover how refactoring a hardcoded NDVI pipeline into a generic, …
Left of the Loop: A Fool with a Tool is Still a Fool
"A fool with a tool is still a fool." — often attributed to Grady Booch I keep coming back to this quote when I watch teams adopt AI. In my last post …
docker init OCIR OKE: From Empty Folder to Production in 15 Minutes
I timed myself. Starting from an empty directory with a Go application idea, how fast could I get to a running deployment on OKE? The answer was 14 mi…
We Renamed the DevOps Team 'Platform Engineering.' Nothing Changed. Here's Why.
And what it actually takes to make the transition real. Sound Familiar? A leadership meeting. A slide deck. A reorg announcement. The DevOps team is n…
Your AI Agent Doesn't Understand Your System
Everyone is asking whether AI can write code. That question is already answered. The more important question is: Can AI understand the system it is ch…
GitOps Policy Drift: Why Reconciliation Doesn't Stop Day-2 Failure
GitOps policy drift is what happens when a control plane keeps a policy perfectly reconciled long after the reason for that policy has stopped being t…
AI Workloads Are Reshaping Kubernetes in 2026: GPU Scheduling, MLOps, and the Platform Engineering Reckoning
How GPU scheduling complexity and MLOps integration are forcing platform teams to rearchitect Kubernetes clusters before operational debt becomes insu…
MCP Server Architecture for Platform Teams — Giving AI Live Access to Your Infrastructure
Pipeline & Prompts | Byte size guides on DevOps, Cloud and AI AI in the Stack #3 ⚡ Byte Size Summary MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard …
Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.
Tribal knowledge is two different things wearing one name. The half everyone panics about losing was declared in your Terraform, your Dockerfiles, and…
Supercharging Kubernetes: How eBPF is Revolutionizing SRE and Platform Engineering
The ecosystem surrounding Kubernetes has always been a rapidly moving target. Just when Site Reliability Engineers and Platform Engineers feel they ha…
Why I Am Building Rudhra as an Agent Operating Platform
AI agents are moving fast. Every week, new frameworks, models, tools, and patterns appear. Developers can now build agents that reason, call tools, re…
Monorepo vs polyrepo: the debate is measuring the wrong thing
The monorepo vs polyrepo argument is old enough that Buildkite was comparing it to the Vim and Emacs wars back in 2024. It should have been settled, o…
copilot automations turn agents into scheduled infrastructure
GitHub keeps adding small pieces to Copilot cloud agent, and the pattern is getting harder to miss. The latest one is scheduling and event-based autom…
Is Agentic AI Security the Next Crisis for Platform Engineers in 2026?
Is Agentic AI Security the Next Crisis for Platform Engineers in 2026? Quick Answer: Geordie AI's $30M Series A is a clear signal that enterprise adop…
The Disk-Pressure Incident That Taught Me to Always Set LimitRanges and Other Lessons from Mirroring EKS Locally.
Part 6 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch. Previously in Part 5: We installed Istio with revision-based upgrades, M…
One Command, One Working Kubernetes Cluster! Building My Daily-Driver Lab on OrbStack.
Part 2 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch. Previously in Part 1: I walked through why I replaced Multipass with Orb…
From Ingress-NGINX to Gateway API: The Migration Everyone Underestimated
The retirement of Ingress-NGINX in March 2026 forced thousands of platform teams to finally confront a migration they had delayed for years. While Gat…
Meta needed 50+ AI agents to map their tribal knowledge. The most durable piece of their stack is the part you can build today.
In early April, Meta's engineering team published a piece describing how they used a swarm of 50+ specialised AI agents to map tribal knowledge across…
server-side sharded watch is Kubernetes admitting the control plane has a data-scale problem
Kubernetes scalability conversations usually start with the obvious stuff. How many nodes? How many pods? How large is the cluster? How much etcd pain…
Your Terminal Is Becoming a Governed AI Runtime
There was a time when the terminal felt like the last private corner of software development. The browser got enterprise controls. The IDE got plugins…
Your CI-CD Pipeline Is Your Real Infrastructure Control Plane
Terraform defines desired state. Kubernetes reconciles workload state. Cloud consoles expose state. None of those systems decides whether infrastructu…
The AI Didn't Delete Your Database. Your Missing Agent Pipeline Did.
Last week, a Cursor agent running on Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a startup's production database and its backups in nine seconds . The agent had been aske…
Lessons learned building a Kubernetes Auth Gateway
We're at the end of the series. Nine chapters of mechanism. One chapter of opinion. Building the Auth Gateway took roughly two years from "what if NGI…