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6 May 2026 · 19 min read
Platform Engineering End-to-End
Platform engineering is more than DevOps with a portal. This post walks the full arc of the discipline end to end: why platforms exist, how to build and operate them, how to manage the messy stakeholder politics, and what success actually looks like. Grounded in Fournier and Nowland's book and a few years of doing this on real systems.
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11 June 2021 · 3 min read
How to Use Terraform Workspaces to Manage Environment-based Configuration
Find out how to make managing infrastructure in multiple environments easier with Terraform Workspaces, without using regular modules.
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