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AI is accelerating software creation faster than organisations can safely operationalise it. This is a summary of my talk at the O’Reilly Infrastructure and Ops Superstream on Platform Engineering and AI.

Discover Platform Capability Factors, an open standard giving platform teams a clear model for building scalable, reusable capabilities.

The relatively recent move towards more centralised platforms stems from a desire to exert greater control following an era of sprawl introduced by DevOps. Yet on reflection, using the word “control” is likely not only unnecessary but also wrong. In the end, control is one solution that can be applied towards the cost and risk reduction outcome organisations are most concerned with, which can be better summarised as coherence.

Despite all of the investment in portals, templates, and Kubernetes operators, organisations are realising that investing in tech implementation feels productive, while actually, they are just stuck on a treadmill of refactoring automation.