The Invariant Is Hiding
Emily's platform team has a cost problem. They run thousands of workloads for application teams, and too much compute sits idle most of the day. Emily has a fairly obvious propo...
Articles tagged with Platform Engineering
Platform engineering posts on internal platforms, paved roads, developer workflows, ownership, and reducing friction at engineering scale.
The Mirror Is Part of the Machine
The most fun telemetry problems I've seen usually start with an incident where we could not see enough, so we added the missing field after the postmortem. Then that justincase...
Breaking Up With WordPress After Two Decades
Around Black Friday last November, I moved my website from SiteGround to Bluehost. This was not some ambitious infrastructure decision. SiteGround wanted roughly five times more...
What Good Looks Like
A few companies back, my manager and I inherited a group of teams after layoffs. Confidence was already low. People didn't believe in the systems we maintained. Stakeholders los...