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An application team can point to the feature it shipped this week. A platform team may have spent that same week making deployments safer, improving…
The agent runtime is more portable than you think — mostly. Last week I got Google's Agent Substrate running on Amazon EKS, with S3 snapshots, RDS s…
TL;DR. Developers create cloud resources and IAM grants themselves by committing a small namespaced YAML next to their app. Each kind is a Crossplan…
Bridging the Expertise Gap in Kubernetes and Platform Engineering Achieving mastery in Kubernetes and platform engineering demands more than broad f…
idp-platform-lab 's ADR-007 has a line in it, written before a second custom resource existed: "CR relationships need design. When DatabaseClaim and…
Every engineering organization above a certain size develops the same invisible problem. Some teams ship confidently and fast, deploying multiple ti…
At a previous employer I went looking for a shell script and found eleven of it. Not eleven copies, but eleven variants, each one someone's improvem…
Kubernetes virtual machines still coexist by design in many production architectures — not because those environments are behind, but because Kubern…
Every platform team I have been on has built a golden path: a template, a paved road, a "blessed" way to build and ship a service. Every one of them…
⚡ TL;DR Four things about controller mechanics are widely half-understood: what Reconcile receives, where its work comes from, what a periodic resyn…
I sat in on Margaret-Anne Storey's DORA community session last week, and she put a name on the thing I'd been circling since April. It isn't technic…
Connection refused" and a silent timeout look like the same failure to whoever's paging you at 2am. They're not. They come from different layers of…
Watch a developer start an agent session on real enterprise work and you will see a ritual. Before the first useful prompt, they gather. They paste…
Thirteen posts ago I went looking for a seam. Somewhere between the pipeline work I did for twenty years and the AI governance work I do now, there…
You handed the agent your CI credentials. You handed it your registry token. Then you asked why nobody in security will sign off on shipping its out…
In today's digital world, businesses face the challenge of developing, deploying, and scaling applications faster and more efficiently. One of the k…
TL;DR Golden Paths aren't about forcing every team to work the same way. They're about removing repetitive infrastructure decisions so developers ca…
If you run more than a handful of OpenTelemetry Collectors, you already know the pain: a config change means SSHing into boxes, redeploying DaemonSe…
Financial services has a reputation among engineers: it's the place where velocity goes to die. Ask anyone who shipped software at a startup and the…
Herodotus wrote of a bird that lived five hundred years in Arabia, and when its life came to an end, it did not wait to be surprised by death. It bu…
Platform engineering has become one of the fastest-growing disciplines in software engineering. As organizations scale, the number of services, pipe…
A hearth fire required no priest, no temple, no calendar date. It required a fire and a household. When a city sent settlers to found a colony, they…
Picking the Latest Kubernetes Release on AKS Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot Every few months a platform engineer opens a Slack message that r…
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 a…
Before a young Athenian took his full place in the city, he spent two years in the ephebeia. Training happened in the gymnasion, organized by tribe,…
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 tw…
LinkedIn Draft — Insight (2026-07-10) End of week. Here's the thing I kept coming back to: SLOs work when they create conversations, not when they c…
The most important step in the old process was never written down: the confused developer getting up, walking across the room, and asking. It worked…
When I wrote about shifting the engineering process left — spec sessions, autonomous agents, humans reviewing output rather than writing code — a qu…
In an ancient Greek household, the oikonomos was the steward: the one trusted to manage the estate’s resources so the whole household prospered. The…