6 lessons learned from 6 years of building relationships with events
I've been managing relationships and organizing events at Giant Swarm for six years now. The two are more connected than the job title might suggest. …
Overwhelmed by scale: how product thinking fixes platform teams
Most platform engineering stories start with success. A small team builds something useful, leadership notices, and suddenly that team is everyone's p …
The cloud native era killed VMware's lock-in. Here's what to run instead.
If you're evaluating alternatives to VMware, you'll find no shortage of content telling you which hypervisor to pick or how the licensing compares. Wh …
Why we stopped gatekeeping our personal development budget
This year I'm spending my personal development budget on Thai lessons, therapy, and a scooter safety course. I'm not sure all three of those would hav …
The best AI agent is the one that disappears
Here's something most AI vendors won't tell you: the goal shouldn't be to run more AI. It should be to run less — eventually. I know that sounds stran …
AI agents that run where your data lives
There's a pattern I keep seeing in enterprise AI conversations. Someone shows an impressive demo — an agent that analyzes logs, responds to incidents, …
The software inflection point: agents, OSS, and InnerSource
Over the past year, agentic development has gone from novelty to the way an increasing number of serious teams actually ship code. Naval Ravikant decl …
Donating your project to a foundation: what it actually means for risk and compliance
We don't write about the CRA because we have it figured out. We write because we're in the middle of it, and writing is how we think. What we know is …
Your platform team can't build great templates while running around fixing clusters
Most platform teams know exactly what they should be building: the templates and self-service workflows that let developers go from idea to running se …
