Platform Engineering
Engineering notes and deep-dives on Platform Engineering, with practical examples and lessons from experience.
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Policy as Code in the AI-code era: the speed-versus-control paradox
Production-code velocity now outruns human review. Without deterministic guardrails at CI and admission, an AI agent turns into an amplifier of mistakes — not throughput.
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The golden path as a product: why the thinnest viable platform beats the five-year build
Build the platform thin — one path at a time — and standardize the process before you automate it. Otherwise you ship a monument no one uses.
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Internal Developer Platform: Six Layers and Three Adoption Drivers
An IDP isn't "yet another portal" — it's a product for developers. Why platform engineering took off now, the six layers a working Kubernetes platform is built from, and the four mistakes that kill a portal in six months.
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