Posts Tagged ‘Platform Engineering’
Single-Cloud First: Discipline, Not Dogma
Cloud conversations often frame single-cloud and multi-cloud as opposing strategies. One sounds flexible.The other sounds limiting.But that framing misses the point. Single-cloud first isn’t about loyalty. It’s about discipline. And discipline is what makes control possible. Most environments don’t start as multi-cloud. They gradually become multi-cloud: a SaaS platform here, a new workload there, an…
Read MoreAgentic AI Isn’t Breaking Systems — It’s Exposing What We’ve Been Ignoring
Agentic AI isn’t breaking systems — it’s revealing identity and platform weaknesses we’ve tolerated. Architecture becomes operational safety at machine speed.
Read MorePlatform First: Paved Roads, Freedom, and the Cost of Both
Platforms don’t fail when teams go around them. They fail when the road no longer leads where work needs to go.
Read MoreIdentity First: The Only Control Plane That Survives Every Cloud Decision
Identity isn’t plumbing — it’s architecture. User, device, and code identity form the only control plane that survives every cloud decision.
Read MoreExpert Mode, No Guardrails — But With Control
Multi-cloud promised flexibility. It delivered complexity. A real-world look at control planes, identity-first design, and operating at full speed.
Read MoreBook Review: Mastering Enterprise Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering has become one of the fastest-growing disciplines in software delivery, and Mastering Enterprise Platform Engineering offers one of the clearest explanations of why. This review breaks down what the book gets right, why both sales and engineering teams should care, and how it connects to the DevOps and AI trends shaping 2025.
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