Engineering notes for people who run the systems.
Practical arguments about cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, delivery, and reliability. We write about decisions that matter in production: why a pattern fails, when a tool is justified, and what we would change before adding more complexity. No trend reports or introductory tool roundups.
Platform engineering · Assessment
What to look for in a platform assessment
A platform assessment should identify the constraints affecting delivery, reliability, and cost, then produce engineering work your team can actually execute.
DevOps · GitOps
GitOps is a delivery model, not a tool install
Argo CD alone does not establish GitOps. The important decisions concern desired state, environment promotion, ownership, and handling configuration drift.
Infrastructure as code · Platform engineering
When a Terraform repo stops being a platform
Infrastructure code becomes a bottleneck when state, modules, and deployment responsibilities lack clear boundaries. Here's what to separate first.