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2025 Retrospective: The Year Platform Engineering Became the Standard
Reflecting on the major trends of 2025 and how they've shaped the future of software delivery and infrastructure.
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Strategic and technical analysis on Platform Engineering, Cloud and AI.
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Serverless Platform Engineering: The Ultimate Abstraction
How Serverless is changing the role of Platform Engineering from managing clusters to managing high-level service contracts.
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The Platform Product Manager: The Missing Link in Platform Engineering
Why the technical excellence of a platform is not enough, and how a dedicated Product Manager can drive adoption and business value.
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Compliance as Code: Automating Trust and Audit
How to move from manual spreadsheets to automated, continuous compliance checks that satisfy both regulators and developers.
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Advanced Observability: Why Logs and Metrics are Not Enough
How distributed tracing, profiling, and eBPF are changing how we understand complex cloud-native systems.
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Data Platform Engineering: Applying Platform Principles to Data
Why data teams need their own 'Internal Developer Platform' to manage pipelines, datasets, and governance at scale.
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Testing Infrastructure as Code: Ensuring Your Automation is Safe
Why you should treat your Terraform or Pulumi code like application code and how to implement a testing strategy for your infrastructure.
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Chaos Engineering: Building Resilience by Breaking Things
Why intentionally injecting failures into your systems is the best way to prevent major production outages.
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The AI Gateway: Centralizing LLM Access and Governance
Why organizations need a dedicated entry point for AI services to manage costs, security, and performance.
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Multi-Cloud Strategy: Choice or Necessity?
Exploring the benefits and complexities of using multiple cloud providers and how to decide if it's right for your organization.
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Kyverno: Kubernetes-Native Policy Management Made Simple
Why Kyverno is becoming the go-to choice for policy-as-code in Kubernetes, without the need to learn a new language.
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Measuring Developer Experience: Beyond Sentiment to Impact
How to move from anecdotal 'frustration' to measurable DevEx metrics that drive platform engineering priorities.
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Cloud Exit Strategy: Reality or Myth?
Why thinking about leaving the cloud is a vital part of risk management, and how to build portability without sacrificing innovation.
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Automated Incident Response: Reducing MTTR with Code
How to move from manual firefighting to automated remediation using event-driven patterns and runbooks-as-code.
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SBOM: Why the Software Bill of Materials is a Security Game Changer
How having a detailed inventory of your software components can accelerate vulnerability response and improve compliance.
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API Governance: Ensuring Consistency in a Distributed World
How to manage API contracts, versions, and quality standards across hundreds of microservices.
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Crossplane vs. Terraform: The Battle for Infrastructure Control
Comparing the industry-standard Terraform with the Kubernetes-native newcomer, Crossplane. Which one should you choose?
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SRE for Platforms: Treating Your IDP Like a Mission-Critical Service
Why the Internal Developer Platform deserves the same reliability standards as your production applications.
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Modern Secrets Management: Beyond Environment Variables
Why hardcoding secrets is a recipe for disaster and how to use modern vaults and dynamic secrets to secure your applications.
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Cloud Landing Zones: Building the Foundation for Scale
Why a well-architected landing zone is essential for security, compliance, and multi-team cloud adoption.
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Shift Left Security: Empowering Developers in the IDE
How to integrate security checks early in the development lifecycle to reduce remediation costs and friction.
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DORA Metrics: Measuring Software Delivery Performance
How to use the four key metrics from the DevOps Research and Assessment group to track and improve your engineering velocity.
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Secure RAG: Bringing AI to Enterprise Data Safely
How to implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation without leaking sensitive business information.
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Self-Service Infrastructure: From Tickets to Empowerment
How to design a self-service model that gives developers autonomy without compromising on security or cost.
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Terraform Drift: How to Detect and Fix Infrastructure Inconsistency
Why infrastructure drift happens and how to use automation to ensure your code always matches reality.
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Backstage: The Front Door to Your Internal Developer Platform
How Backstage.io helps organizations centralize service catalogs, documentation, and scaffolding in one place.
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Software Supply Chain Security: The New Frontier
Why securing your build pipeline and dependencies is just as important as securing your production code.
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SLIs vs. SLOs: Measuring What Matters to Your Users
A practical guide to defining Service Level Indicators and Objectives that align engineering efforts with user experience.
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GreenOps: Measuring and Reducing Your Cloud Carbon Footprint
Why environmental sustainability is becoming a key metric for IT organizations and how to start your GreenOps journey.
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FinOps: Why Tagging is Just the Beginning
Moving from simple reporting to operational cost control through architectural choices and automation.
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Policy-based Governance: Moving Beyond Ticket Gates
How OPA and Gatekeeper enable automated governance by turning rules into code within your Kubernetes clusters.
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Kubernetes Multi-tenancy: Isolation Strategies
How to safely share clusters between teams using Namespaces, Vcluster, and Network Policies.
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Platform as a Product: Beyond the Buzzword
Why internal platforms fail without product management, and how to shift from projects to products.
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IaC & GitOps: Industrializing Control
Why Infrastructure as Code and GitOps are the technical foundations for secure, traceable, and repeatable delivery at scale.
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AI Governance in Finance: Explainability and Compliance
How to move from AI experiments to industrialized, governed, and auditable models in regulated financial environments.
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Risk-Centric Observability: Beyond Basic Monitoring
In critical environments, observability isn't just about dashboards—it's about understanding risk, resilience, and traceability.
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Platform Engineering 2025–2030: The Next Operating System for Software Delivery
What leaders should prepare for: IDPs as products, policy-driven governance, AI-enabled operations, and measurable engineering economics.
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How to Structure a Platform Team
A platform team is not a support team. It is a product team with engineering excellence, clear ownership, and measurable outcomes.
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FinOps & Platform Engineering: Cost Governance as a Platform Capability
FinOps is most effective when implemented through the platform: standardization, visibility, and guardrails that scale with delivery.
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Golden Paths: Standardization Without Friction
Golden Paths provide paved roads to production: secure-by-default workflows that reduce cognitive load and accelerate delivery.
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Security by Design Through the Platform
The most effective security strategy is to embed guardrails into platform workflows—so secure delivery becomes the default behavior.
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Cloud Operating Model: Governance That Enables Speed
A Cloud Operating Model turns cloud adoption into repeatable execution—balancing autonomy, security, reliability, and cost control.
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AI and Platform Engineering: From Assistants to Industrialized Flows
AI changes platforms: better developer experience, faster operations, and new governance needs—if you integrate it with discipline.
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Internal Developer Platform: A Strategic Product, Not an IT Project
An IDP is a product with users, adoption, and outcomes. Treating it as such is the difference between success and shelfware.
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Why a DevSecOps Platform Is Now Indispensable
Security cannot be bolted on after delivery. A DevSecOps platform makes secure-by-default workflows scalable and auditable.
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Platform Engineering: Definition, Challenges, and the Future of Developer Experience
Why Platform Engineering has become a core capability for modern IT organizations—and how it changes speed, reliability, and governance.
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