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So you've successfully migrated an application or team to a single Kubernetes cluster. Perhaps you're using a managed offering such as...

One of the challenges of running a Platform is the underlying technology which is, oftentimes, itself a platform. The choice of the...

In software there always seems to be more to do than time to do it. This is particularly true when it comes to often understaffed...

Systems are all around us. They exist at incomprehensibly enormous scales, such as the complex global economy that we all operate within,...

Software teams—and the internal platform they use—do not exist in a vacuum. Quite the opposite. They are often inserted into a bigger...

Work across your organisation to build your platform as a product and ensure that your platform offerings leverage collective expertise.

In the last couple of decades software delivery has gone through significant changes. Historically, software was subdivided into focused...

Build vs buy is a perennial conversation in the software industry. Buying a ready-made product that promises to deliver multiples of...

The tech ecosystem is a rapidly changing space. Companies are often grappling with staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and...

Over the last 6 years I have had the pleasure of working on a few amazing platform teams. In each case we had an outsized impact on the...

Platform Engineering is generating quite the buzz these days. In particular, there seems to be a lot of chat about what it is not. Or how...

The first article in this series covered the theory behind the emergence of internal platforms, platform teams, and paving golden paths....

When I wasted three years of my life building a platform for a project that failed within a month of launching, I vowed to never make the...

Time Wasted on Commodity Infrastructure The modern digital organisation is populated with customer-focused teams delivering business...