Tag: platformengineering

  • Why AI is forcing enterprises to rethink observability

    Boston Consulting Group finds only 5% of companies are successfully generating value from AI, with the other 95% failing to turn sharply rising spend into cost savings or revenue growth. Argues traditional observability tooling is part of what is failing them. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Why AI is forcing enterprises to rethink observability

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  • The Organization Is the Bottleneck

    Everyone is adopting AI coding tools and engineers are writing code faster than ever, but the question is whether organizations are actually delivering value faster. The argument is that the organization, not the coding, is the constraint. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Organization Is the Bottleneck

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  • Let them tinker – hacking developer resistance to sound enterprise architecture and platforms

    Let them tinker – hacking developer resistance to sound enterprise architecture and platforms

    Developers need to tinker or they’ll reject your platform. That is a lesson that people who build tools and platforms for developers learn. The more ambitious your platform is in scale, the more tinker resistance you encounter – you want it to be the platform that 10,000’s of developers at a bank use, for example.…

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  • When Developer Workflow Discipline Isn’t Enough thectoadvisor.com/blog/2026… Selling cross-silo enterprise infrastructure stuff is very difficult: These are platform engineering objections. And they’re coming from a team the vendor never talked to. Because the vendor optimized their story for developer adoption. They have research that tells them developers love this. What they don’t have is a…

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  • Kubernetes alone does not a platform make

    Even the platform engineers need to hide Kubernetes to get their job done: Kubernetes adds another layer of complexity for platform engineering teams, introducing architectural complexities that require a deep understanding of containers, networking, storage, and cluster security protocols. While it has become the default runtime for modern applications, managing Kubernetes at scale alongside existing…

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  • Here are the slides for the talk I’ll be giving at @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social later today, at 2pm. It’s based on the DIY pitfalls paper I revised recently. CfgMgmtCamp #PlaformEngineering

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  • Amazon Should Buy Anthropic, AI Doctors, Metaverse RIP

    Amazon Should Buy Anthropic, AI Doctors, Metaverse RIP

    Original Content Amazon should buy Anthropic. I wasn’t really sure what hardned images were, let alone “distroless,” so Tony and I were lucky to get William on this week’s Tanzu Catsup to sort it out. We also discuss how it fits into platform engineering. If you can’t be bothered, here’s an excerpt on optimizing Helm…

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  • Why people build their own platforms anyway – resume-driven development and the joy of building

    Every list of reasons to build your own platform leaves off the real ones: resume-driven development, and that builders like building things. Do you fight that, or adapt the platform philosophy to it?

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  • What is a platform and how do you do platform engineering at scale? Find out in this interview on tales from Home Depot and beyond.

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  • Digital Transformation Fatigue, and how to get over it – DOGE case study

    This is the story of most large IT transformation/modernization efforts. Once the executives that started it leaves, it stops. Then a new one comes in that does almost the opposite. Put all your apps in the cloud, bring all your apps on-premises. Tide goes out, tide comes in. That pattern of course fuels staff “modernization…

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  • Remember when DevSecOps was all the rage?

    Enterprises are till trying to figure out DevSecOps: [M]any organizations remain stuck in siloed approaches that pose problems due to competing demands for speed, efficiency and risk reduction. Enterprises that effectively integrate security into software development and deployment–both through platforms and tools, and via cross-team collaboration– are better positioned to drive velocity, quality and innovation…

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  • Platform Engineering Anti-Patterns

    This is has some new material in it, not just the same old transformation discussion from agile and DevOps. So: thumbs up! 🔗 8 platform engineering anti-patterns

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  • Can’t stop hitting yourself

    The problems feel like something we should have moved passed long ago. The general problems and patterns are not new. Why do they persist? 🔗 Why Up to 70% of Platform Engineering Teams Fail to Deliver Impact

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  • Everybody talks about digital transformation, but nobody does anything about it.

    Everybody talks about digital transformation, but nobody does anything about it.

    Recording of my AI platform engineering talk This is a new talk of mine going over how platform engineers can support AI. Well, it’s more about how we don’t exactly know, but we can speculate based on a handful of early use cases. Here’s the slides if you’re into that kind of thing. Here’s the…

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  • Recording of my AI platform engineering talk

    This is a new talk of mine going over how platform engineers can support AI. Well, it’s more about how we don’t exactly know, but we can speculate based on a handful of early use cases. Here’s the slides if you’re into that kind of thing. Here’s the 🤖 on my key points: Platform engineering…

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  • Platform engineering is about more than what’s going on Backstage – An internal developer platform is a lot of work, not just installing the UI layer. // Also, check out the Syntaso people popping up!

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  • A guide to platform engineering – For those who want to “be like Google.”

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  • Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy – Turns out computer are always difficult.

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  • Creating a Communications Framework for Platform Engineering – Bryan covers internal community management for platforms.

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  • Platform Engineering: Evolution, Trends, and Future Impact on Software Delivery –

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