Platform Engineering and Golden Paths
A focused chapter on platform engineering and golden paths, with practical delivery concerns, trade-offs, and the operational questions behind CI/CD work.
Why Your Engineering Team Is Getting Slower (Even Though You Keep Hiring)
A few years ago, a product team I worked with had fifteen engineers. They were shipping features every two weeks. Management decided to double the team
Why Your Internal Platform Feels Like a Project Nobody Wants to Use
A few months after launch, the complaints start. "The pipeline is too rigid." "We can't get the database access we need." "The staging environment doesn't
When the Right Way Is Also the Easy Way
A new developer joins your team. They need to build a service that other teams will depend on. Before they can write a single line of feature code, they
The Developer Portal: Your Team's Single Entry Point to Delivery
Imagine a developer on your product team gets assigned to build a new microservice. They need to figure out which Git repository to use, what pipeline
Why Your Developers Shouldn't Build Their Own Deployment Pipelines
You've built a shiny new internal developer portal. You've created golden path templates for common service types. Your developers can spin up a new
How to Measure and Evolve Your Internal Developer Platform
A few months after launching your internal developer platform, you notice something worrying. The adoption numbers are flat. Teams still set up their own
Platform and Governance: Keeping Teams Consistent Without Slowing Them Down
You have a security policy that says every container image must be scanned before production deployment. You have a compliance rule that requires two