The more senior engineers get, the more results matter - “as you become more senior, you’re increasingly graded on results. Interns are graded on effort."
Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy - Turns out computer are always difficult.
Where Technology Executives Will Be Investing In 2026 - Looks like lots of datacenter buildout.
Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me - Less time coding means more time designing and product managing.
Java licensing snafus cost millions, drive developers to open source - ”One-quarter of respondents said their organization spent between $50,000 and $100,000 resolving software non-compliance issues, while licensing issues cost 17% of surveyed organizations up to $1 million.”
Beyond London Summit 2025: Decoding Google Cloud’s Scale Narrative - Summary of stated Google cloud strategy, from Bola.
AI industry’s size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues - Doing enterprises AI isn’t free in terms of time, money, opportunity cost, and risk. You need target things that have a pay off, an ROI. I hope that this will mean doing more, not cutting costs. That is growth, not firing people.
Why I’m Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) - ‘Meanwhile, the winners will be teams building constrained, domain-specific tools that use AI for the hard parts while maintaining human control or strict boundaries over critical decisions. Think less “autonomous everything” and more “extremely capable assistants with clear boundaries."'
Internal Developer Platform Marketing, part 01
Most platform teams forget they have a product to sell to developers. Part one of my new series over at The New Stacklays out why internal platform marketing is incredibly important. Here’s excerpt on positioning:
Platform Positioning: What Is It Good For?
Positioning defines where your platform fits in your organization’s technical landscape. It answers the crucial question: “When and why should developers choose this platform over other options?”
Oftentimes, platforms are positioned as the everything solution that solves all the problems and, thus, should be used for all applications.