20posts ·all writing
· via Spacelift
Five layers of guardrails for AI-written infrastructure code: before generation, at review, at apply, after apply, and the policy that ties them together.
#ai-agents #iac #security #platform-engineering
How to build an agent control plane on AWS: lifecycle, identity, tool governance, policy, guardrails, sandboxed execution, and detection with AgentCore.
#ai-agents #aws #platform-engineering
· via Spacelift
A nine-step roadmap for modernizing an aging Terraform estate: state surgery, guardrails, self-service, and why AI enters the workflow last.
#iac #platform-engineering #ai-agents
· via Gruntwork
Control Tower, LZA, account factories or custom: how the AWS landing zone build routes compare, and the account-structure decisions that age well.
#aws #platform-engineering #iac
· via Spacelift
What DevOps looks like under public-sector constraints: compliance, security-first delivery, and tooling requirements that differ from startups.
#devops-tooling #platform-engineering
· via StackGuardian
Golden paths done properly: why standardization keeps failing, how to build paved roads teams actually use, the usual pitfalls and success metrics.
#platform-engineering #iac
· via AWS
Standing up an internal developer portal on AWS with Port: the productivity case, what a portal changes for teams and a fast path to a working one.
#aws #platform-engineering
· via Spacelift
The three pillars treated practically: what metrics, logs and traces each answer, an OpenTelemetry implementation path and guidelines that scale.
#devops-tooling #platform-engineering
· via Spacelift
Release management that fits DevOps: the stages from planning to rollback, the friction points teams hit and practices that keep releases boring.
#devops-tooling #platform-engineering
· via StackGuardian
Where AI lands in platform work: infrastructure automation, smarter self-service, predictive reliability, security and cost, with adoption stages.
#platform-engineering #ai-agents
· via Spacelift
Why teams overestimate their automation maturity: the gap between having pipelines and trusting them, the usual pitfalls, and ways to close it.
#opinion #iac #platform-engineering
· via Spacelift
Monitoring and observability separated properly: what each does, how they relate, when each is enough and how to build toward both sensibly.
#devops-tooling #platform-engineering
· via StackGuardian
The case for self-service infrastructure: what it is, the value for teams and organizations, an implementation path and the honest challenges.
#platform-engineering #iac
· via Spacelift
The DevOps numbers worth watching: DORA four plus the supporting metrics, how to implement the measurement and which tools track them honestly.
#devops-tooling #platform-engineering
· via Spacelift
DevOps at enterprise scale: what changes with size, adoption strategies that survive the org chart, and the usual failure modes with their fixes.
#devops-tooling #platform-engineering
· via Spacelift
DevOps maturity models used well: the five levels, how to assess where you are, the metrics that verify progress and the traps of cargo-culting.
#devops-tooling #platform-engineering
· via Spacelift
Internal developer platforms explained: the components, who actually uses them, what they change for teams and examples of working implementations.
#platform-engineering #devops-tooling
· via Spacelift
Why one AWS account stops being enough, the core concepts of a multi-account setup, and the services that build one: Organizations to Control Tower.
#aws #platform-engineering
· via Spacelift
The anatomy of a DevOps pipeline: core concepts, stages from commit to production, and the principles that separate working pipelines from fragile ones.
#devops-tooling #platform-engineering
· via Spacelift
A grounded tour of DevOps practices and the anti-patterns that undo them, from CI/CD and IaC to blameless culture and sensible on-call habits.
#devops-tooling #platform-engineering