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Design Patterns Are Not a Developer Thing At some point, most platform engineers end up in a conversation with a senior dev or a software architect where you're trying to explain how your infrastructure works. And somewhere in the middle of that conv...
Your Platform Provisions Environments. That's a Factory. Every platform team eventually faces the same request, over and over again. A developer needs a new environment — staging, a feature branch, a sandbox for testing. They open a ticket, fill out ...
The Facade Is the Product There's a question that comes up in almost every platform team at some point: Should we expose Kubernetes directly to developers, or should we abstract it? It sounds like a tooling debate. Backstage vs. raw manifests. Helm c...
Your Cluster Is Already Watching. That's the Observer Pattern. At some point, most platform teams hit the same wall. A service goes down. An secret expires. A node runs out of disk. And the first question in the postmortem is always the same: why did...
A Git Commit Is Not Just a Change. It's a Command. Here's a scenario that plays out in a lot of platform teams. Your CI/CD pipeline runs kubectl apply as a job step. It exits zero. The pipeline goes green. Deployment successful — or so the dashboard ...
The Glue Is the Platform Here's something that doesn't show up in architecture diagrams. You have Kubernetes. You have Terraform. You have GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Datadog, Vault, and a developer portal. Each of those tools is well-documented, widely ...
