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Why so many organizations fail to industrialize their Internal Developer Platform (IDP) — and what Argy changes
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Why so many organizations fail to industrialize their Internal Developer Platform (IDP) — and what Argy changes

Launching an IDP is not enough. Failures often come from complexity, non-consumable standards, and governance bolted on too late.

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2025 Retrospective: The Year Platform Engineering Became the Standard
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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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Serverless Platform Engineering: The Ultimate Abstraction
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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