Platform Engineering
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Platform Engineering
Self-Service Infrastructure Fails Without Guardrails Baked Into the Same Click
Letting developers provision their own infrastructure only works if the correct configuration is also the easiest one to select.
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Platform Engineering
Your Internal Platform Failed Because Nobody Wanted to Use It
Platform teams build what they think developers need, mandate adoption, and discover teams working around it. Platforms succeed when they…
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Platform Engineering
Platform Teams Fail When They Build Gates Instead of Paths
A mandatory process developers route around has failed. A default path that is genuinely faster than the alternative gets adopted…
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Platform Engineering
A Platform Team Without Metrics Cannot Prove Its Own Value
Without a baseline measured before the platform existed, every claimed improvement is an assertion nobody outside the team can verify.
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Platform Engineering
Documentation Nobody Can Find Is Documentation That Does Not Exist
A wiki page answering exactly the right question provides zero value if the person with the question never finds it,…
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Kubernetes & Containers
Most Kubernetes Operators Should Have Been a Helm Chart
Operators are the right answer for stateful systems requiring ongoing operational logic. For everything else they add a distributed system…
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