Topic
Platform Engineering
My writing, talks, podcasts, and projects about Platform Engineering.
Selected work
Cliff Snyder — Senior SRE at Multimedia LLC
From 600 to 6,000 — an 18-month transformation replacing legacy tooling with a purpose-built incident management platform, scaling operational responsibility from 600 SREs to 6,000 engineers across the org.
Ganesh Datta — Co-Founder & CTO at Cortex
AI didn't change the game, it just exposed your bottlenecks — how platform engineering and SRE teams solve identical human problems through influence rather than authority, and why AI amplifies existing bottlenecks instead of transforming operations.
AI-First Platform Engineering: 3 Signals From PlatformCon
Three emerging patterns from PlatformCon that signal how AI is reshaping internal developer platforms and platform team workflows.
Shery Brauner — SVP of Razor Group
Leading engineering at scale in e-commerce aggregation and the operational challenges that come with it.
David Owczarek — Former Engineering Director
Lessons from leading engineering teams through organizational change and system migrations.
Ryan Lockard — VP of Platform Engineering at CVS Health
Platform engineering at healthcare scale — compliance, reliability, and developer experience.
Cosmo Wolfe — Head of Technology at Metronome
Building reliable billing infrastructure and the unique challenges of usage-based pricing systems.
Chase Roberts — COO at Northflank
Operating a developer platform company and the reliability challenges of running infrastructure for others.
Marino Wijay — Staff Solutions Architect at Kong
API gateway architecture, service mesh patterns, and reliability at the network edge.
Mark Quigley — Head of Platform Engineering
Building internal developer platforms and the organizational dynamics of platform teams.
Kaspar von Grunberg — CEO at Humanitec
The platform engineering movement, internal developer platforms, and developer self-service.
Mariano Cocirio — Staff Software Engineer at Vercel
Frontend infrastructure reliability, edge computing, and the operational side of Vercel's platform.
Introducing Canyon — an AI for developer self-service
Canyon lets developers provision resources, troubleshoot issues, and interact with internal tooling via natural-language prompts.
Backstage Multicluster UI for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes
Building a unified developer portal with Backstage that spans both Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes clusters.
From hype to impact: How AI is reshaping platform engineering
Moving past the buzzwords — where AI is actually changing developer workflows, internal developer portals, and what it means for platform teams.
Getting started with Platform Engineering security and compliance
How platform engineering teams can embed security and compliance into their internal developer platforms from day one.
How to push PaaS usage beyond 12-factor apps
PaaS commands a $170B share of the cloud market, yet manual deployments persist. A practical framework for workload APIs that goes beyond Heroku-style apps.
Scaling on Kubernetes With Open Source Korifi
How Korifi brings Cloud Foundry's developer experience to Kubernetes, enabling simple app scaling without deep K8s knowledge.
Deploy Multilanguage Apps to Kubernetes with Open Source Korifi
Using Korifi to deploy polyglot applications to Kubernetes with the simplicity of Cloud Foundry's cf push experience.
3 Ways to Offset Kubernetes Complexity
Practical strategies to reduce Kubernetes operational complexity — from platform abstractions to developer self-service portals.
Overcoming Kubernetes Namespace Limitations
Kubernetes namespaces have limits. How to work around them for multi-tenant clusters, resource isolation, and organizational scaling.