The Platform Pulse
A weekly briefing on what's actually changing across Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, AI, and SRE. Published on LinkedIn every Monday; each issue is archived here shortly after.
- Edition 143 min read
Chaos Engineering Grew Up: From Netflix to Mainstream
DORA and NIS2 turned resilience testing from a Netflix engineering-culture story into a regulator's checkbox. The discipline had to grow up fast — the maturity ladder, the tool landscape, and why the game day matters more than the failure injection.
- Edition 133 min read
RAG-Powered Runbooks: When Your Documentation Wakes Up
Off-the-shelf LLMs fail in ops because they've never seen your architecture, your postmortems, or your alert history. RAG closes that gap — grounding every answer in your own writing — and turns the runbook from a stale wiki into an on-call teammate.
Edition 122 min readPolicy as Code: OPA, Kyverno, Cedar — Which Wins in 2026?
Three years ago OPA was the answer. Today Kyverno owns Kubernetes admission, Cedar is winning app-level auth, and the single-tool era is quietly ending — how to match each engine to its right control plane.
Edition 112 min readGolden Paths That Developers Actually Use
Spotify's golden-path concept turned ten this year. Most implementations get one thing wrong: they treat it as documentation. Documentation loses to copy-paste. Products win against copy-paste.
Edition 102 min readGitOps at Scale: Argo CD, Flux, and the Patterns That Survive 500 Clusters
CNCF's 2026 survey puts GitOps adoption at 82% of Kubernetes users, but only 23% report it 'just working' at scale. The gap is where the real engineering happens — the repo-structure debate, settled, and the multi-cluster patterns that actually hold up past 50.
Edition 92 min readThe End of On-Call As We Know It
A 2026 Honeycomb survey of 1,200 SREs found 38% are actively shrinking rotations because of AI-assisted triage. The technology story is easy; the human redesign is the hard part most orgs are skipping.
Edition 82 min readLLMOps: What Production-Grade Looks Like in 2026
The notebook worked. The demo wowed the board. Then production revealed LLMOps is just MLOps wearing a hoodie. The six-layer stack — and the eval layer everyone underestimates — that actually ships.