The Platform Is the Architecture There's a distinction that comes up a lot in platform engineering conversations, and it's worth making explicit. There's a difference between a team that operates infrastructure and a team that designs a platform. Bot...
Your Deployment Strategy Shouldn't Live in Your Pipeline Here's a situation most platform teams have been in. A team wants to do a canary deployment. So they modify the pipeline. They add a step that deploys to 10% of traffic, waits, checks some metr...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
