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Platform Challenge 3: You Can’t Buy What Only You Need
Build vs buy is a perennial conversation in the software industry. Buying a ready-made product that promises to deliver multiples of...
Christopher Hedley
Dec 27, 20222 min read
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Platform Challenge 2: Time Pressure Makes a Full Platform Rewrite Unlikely
The tech ecosystem is a rapidly changing space. Companies are often grappling with staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and...
Jake Klein
Dec 26, 20223 min read
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Platform Challenge 1: A Small Team Supporting a Big Platform
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...
Abby Bangser
Dec 25, 20222 min read
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The 12 Platform Challenges of Christmas
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...

Paula Kennedy
Dec 8, 20221 min read
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Paving Golden Paths on Multi-Cluster Kubernetes: Part 2 (The Practice)
The first article in this series covered the theory behind the emergence of internal platforms, platform teams, and paving golden paths....

Colin Humphreys
Aug 19, 20225 min read
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Paving Golden Paths On Multi-Cluster Kubernetes: Part 1 (The Theory)
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...

Colin Humphreys
Aug 19, 20223 min read
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Crossing the Platform Gap
Time Wasted on Commodity Infrastructure The modern digital organisation is populated with customer-focused teams delivering business...

Colin Humphreys
Sep 22, 20212 min read
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