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Divine Odazie
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The Founder of EverythingDevOps, Divine Odazie, is a Developer Relations Professional and Technical Writer with over 8+ years of experience in Technology and a track record in Backend Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Native, and Developer Relations on a global scale. He has given talks/workshops at developer conferences like Open Source Summit Europe, KubeCon North America, Cloud Native Rejekts, and Ansible Contributor Summit.
He also supports the cloud native community in Africa as a KCD (Kubernetes Community Days) Organizer, and other communities empowering Africa with Technology.
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Dec 4, 2025 ∙ 6 min
Do Startups Need Platform Engineering?
Platform engineering is maturing quickly, but every conversation focuses on enterprises with hundreds of developers. Startups that consider platform engineering often struggle to know where to begin, and others dismiss the idea entirely.
The goal of this article is not to tell you that you need platform engineering as a startup, but to help you checkmate if you do, and prepare you for the journey ahead.
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Nov 26, 2025 ∙ 7 min
Securing the Golden Paths of Your Platform
As more teams embrace platform engineering, golden paths have become the go-to approach for streamlining developer workflows. Fundamentally, it solves the “how can/should I do this?” problem for developers in engineering teams. The goal is to set up a complete development environment, with the networking, integration, security, governance, compliance, and deployment aspects of the software delivery pipeline —
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Oct 15, 2025 ∙ 5 min
Cost Optimisation Strategies for Platform Engineering Teams
Platform engineering promises to accelerate delivery and reduce complexity, but if not approached deliberately, it can quickly become a cost sink.
This article examines the hidden costs in platform engineering and explores cost-optimisation strategies to maintain a lean approach without compromising innovation.
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Sep 15, 2025 ∙ 5 min
The Engineering Manager’s Guide to Establishing Platform Buy-In (Before You Build Anything)
When building a platform, engineering leaders often focus on technology choices without first building a shared vision with developers, specialist teams and other stakeholders. This results in low adoption or, in the worst case, wasted investment.
This article will provide a practical leadership framework for securing developer support before a single platform component is built.
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Aug 22, 2025 ∙ 5 min
You Don’t Need a Bigger Platform Team, You Need a More Collaborative One
Terms like “Platform as a Product” and “X-as-a-service” are everywhere, yet many companies still centralise all platform responsibilities in a single team. This results in cognitive overload, bottlenecks, and missed opportunities to tap into institutional knowledge.
This article reframes the discussion from “headcount” to “collaboration.”
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Aug 12, 2025 ∙ 6 min
Why Platform Engineers Need to Think Like Product Managers
You know the saying, “If we build it, they will come”? Well, it doesn’t hold up when building software today, and it definitely doesn’t work for internal platforms.
You see, internal platforms are products. And like any product, they (should) have users. In this case, your users are your developers. That makes platform engineering a form of consumer software development, even if the consumer is inside your organisation.
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Jun 5, 2025 ∙ 5 min
AI in Platform Engineering: Assessing the Evolution
The future of platform engineering isn’t just cloud-native; it’s now AI-native. Would you agree with that? Whether your answer is yes or...
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