Self-service infrastructure enables developers to provision environments, deploy applications, and manage resources without filing tickets or waiting for ops teams, a core goal of platform engineering.
The companion to 'Terraform the Hard Way.' Same twenty-one crossroads, framed against what each one looks like under a framework that's already made the decisions. With concrete Atmos snippets at every step.
A guided checklist of every decision you'll make on the road from `terraform apply` to production. Not a recommendation — an education. Borrowed in spirit from Kelsey Hightower's 'Kubernetes the Hard Way.'
An internal developer platform is the icing on the cake — the reward for getting the foundation underneath into shape. Here's what I've learned about when the icing actually delivers, and why a framework matters more than the portal.
There's an anxiety running through services businesses about AI. They have it backwards. When the busywork disappears, what's left is the part that actually matters.
AI is expanding the possibility space faster than we can build. Traditional metrics can't capture what's happening. Here's a new way to think about it.