fl@latini.dev:~/posts$ ls -t --human --sort=time
posts=23 total_read=~199 min range=2022-2026
# Your Developer Portal Is a Trap (Until It Isn't)
Backstage is the most popular way to make platform engineering look real before it is. A portal is the index of your paved roads - and writing the index before the book is the classic first-six-months mistake. When a developer portal earns its keep, what to put in it, and the cheaper version you almost certainly want first.
# Learn Terraform Fluently
Knowing terraform apply is not knowing Terraform. A pragmatic guide to the mental model that makes infrastructure-as-code fluent: state, the plan loop, modules, drift, and how to organise it all - plus when to put the tool down.
# Building Your First Golden Path
A platform is a slide deck until the first golden path ships. How to pick, build, and get adoption for the one paved road that makes platform engineering real.
# Your LLM Platform Is Repeating Your ML Platform's Mistakes
An SRE and platform-engineering take on why most LLM platforms are quietly rebuilding the anti-patterns that made ML platforms painful in 2018-2022, and the small set of decisions that break the loop.
# The Postmortem That Changed Nothing
Most postmortems produce a document, not a change. A pragmatic SRE take on why incident reviews fail to fix anything, and the small set of habits that turn them into real learning.
# Your Staging Environment Is Lying To You
Most staging environments are expensive theatre. A pragmatic SRE take on what staging is actually for, why it always drifts from production, and the production-safety habits that pay off more than fidelity ever will.
# The Boring Stack Manifesto
The SRE who runs Kubernetes for a living ships side projects on Flask, SQLite, and HTMX. A manifesto for the boring stack, with inpedana.com as the live case study.
# Are You Really Monitoring Your Infrastructure?
Most teams confuse 'we have dashboards' with 'we have observability'. A practical guide to monitoring that actually catches problems before your customers do.
# Is Kubernetes the Right Tool for You?
Kubernetes is brilliant when you need it and a tax when you don't. A pragmatic decision framework - with honest alternatives - from someone who runs Kubernetes for a living.
# DDDD - Domain Driven Design for Dummies
A practical introduction to Domain Driven Design: bounded contexts, ubiquitous language, and the tactical patterns that actually matter - without the 500-page book.