Platform Engineering
Survey Surfaces Significant Levels of IDP Investment to Reduce SDLC Friction
A survey of 954 IT decision-makers suggests more resources are now being allocated to reducing friction across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Conducted by CDW, the survey finds more than two-thirds of ...
Policy as Code for Cost Control, Not Just Compliance
Mariusz Michalowski | | cloud cost management, FinOps, infrastructure as code, kubernetes, platform engineering, policy as codePolicy as code can do more than enforce compliance. Learn how platform teams use guardrails, tagging and sizing policies to prevent cloud cost waste early ...
Zero Downtime Multicloud Migrations for Observability Control Planes
Deven Chawla | | control planes, distributed systems, multicloud, observability, platform engineeringMost platform teams aren’t deciding whether they’ll run across multiple clouds. They already are, or they’ll be soon. The real question is how to migrate critical systems without turning on-call into a ...
Unlocking Observability by Design With Inferred Schemas
Nicolas Takashi | | observability, OpenTelemetry, platform engineering, schema governance, telemetry pipelinesObservability systems generate massive telemetry, but schema drift creates friction. Learn how inferred schemas and OpenTelemetry Weaver restore structure ...
The Great Infrastructure Migration: Why Teams are Moving From Manual Provisioning to Autonomous Platforms
Neel Shah | | autonomous infrastructure, DevOps productivity, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, self-service infrastructureAutonomous infrastructure platforms replace manual provisioning, accelerating delivery, improving compliance and freeing platform teams to focus on strategic work ...
Free Tiers and Open Source LLMs – Mana for Developers, Platform Engineers and QA
Mitch Ashley | | AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini 2.5, GitHub Actions, GitHub Agent, Google Cloud, Google Cloud AI Studio, GPT-5, gpt‑oss, Llama 3, microsoft, Mistral, Mixtral, open source LLM, OpenAI, VS Code, WindsurfDevelopment rarely follows one straight path. You sketch ideas, prototype, test, swap tools, iterate, and repeat. The increasing availability of free, limited-use AI tiers and locally run open-source AI LLMs is accelerating ...
Anjali Arora on DevOps Teams Embracing Platform Engineering
Anjali Arora, chief technology officer at Perforce Software, discusses the inefficiencies in DevOps infrastructure and the role of platform engineering in addressing them. She notes the shift from traditional IT-managed infrastructure to ...
Celebrating 10 Years of the North American DevOps Group with Jim Schild
Jim Schild, founder and head of community at the North American DevOps Group (NADOG), discusses the journey of building a DevOps community from the ground up. Originally an English literature major with ...
DevOps Evolution: From Movement to Platform Engineering in the AI Era
Dynatrace's Andi Grabner discusses how DevOps is transforming through platform engineering and AI-driven automation to scale best practices and reduce friction ...
Platform Engineering Gains Traction Builders of Embedded Systems
A survey of 317 decision-makers and influencers responsible for applying platform engineering to the development of custom software destined to run on embedded systems identifies improving cost efficiency (43%) as the primary ...
Game on: Go Multiplayer Mode to Supercharge your Internal Platform
How can organizations level up the value of their internal platforms without massively expanding their platform teams? ...
CrowdStrike CEO: 97% of Windows Systems Back Online After Crash
More than 97% of the Windows desktops that were suddenly disrupted a week ago by a problematic software update from CrowdStrike are back online, according to the cybersecurity company’s top executive, but ...
