Manage OTel Collectors at Scale with OpAMP
If you run more than a handful of OpenTelemetry Collectors, you already know the pain: a config change means SSHing into boxes, redeploying DaemonSets…
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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…
Left of the Loop: The Gymnasion
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, t…
Left of the Loop: Nobody’s Walking Over to a Desk
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 p…
Left of the Loop: The PO is Dead, Long Live the PO
When I wrote about shifting the engineering process left — spec sessions, autonomous agents, humans reviewing output rather than writing code — a ques…
Something I wish someone had told me five years earlier:
LinkedIn Draft — Insight (2026-07-03) Something I wish someone had told me five years earlier: Distributed tracing: the gap between having it and usin…
Change failure rate is up 30% — here's how to measure yours in an afternoon
A practitioner's guide to calculating your team's CFR without a vendor platform — the DORA formula, the SQL, and the AI-assisted vs human-authored spl…
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…
Left of the Loop: The End of the Craftsman?
I noticed something a few months ago. I was talking less to my colleagues. Not because anything was wrong. I had a question, I described it to an AI, …
Zero-Downtime Crossplane v1 v2 Migration: Adopt-in-Place at Production Scale
Crossplane v2 (released in late 2025) introduced a cleaner, namespaced resource model and removed a lot of the v1 ceremony around Claims and cluster-s…
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…
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…
Your Marketing Team Is Now a Software Vendor
A DevOps engineer posted on r/devops this week with what reads like a familiar shadow-IT question dressed in 2026 clothes. Marketing, product, and sal…
Golden Paths That Include Cost Guardrails: A Platform Engineering Playbook
Every service provisioned from a Backstage template starts with a git repo, a Kubernetes namespace, and a CI pipeline. It starts with zero budget aler…
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…