Platform-Engineering on F. Latini - IT Engineer

Are You Really Monitoring Your Infrastructure?

Mon, 11 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Every engineering team I work with answers “yes, we have monitoring” before I’ve finished asking the question. Then I ask the follow-up: the last time a customer hit a bug before you did, why?

If you can’t answer that quickly, you don’t have monitoring. You have dashboards.

This is the distinction worth getting right, because it determines whether you find out about problems on Tuesday afternoon or from a customer email at 2 a.m. on Saturday.

Is Kubernetes the Right Tool for You?

Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000

I run Kubernetes for a living. I think you should probably not use it.

That’s not a contradiction. Kubernetes is the right answer for a specific class of problem - multi-tenant, polyglot, heterogeneous workloads at meaningful scale. For most teams I meet, it’s a tax: a complex distributed system bolted onto a stack that didn’t need one, paid for in hiring, security, and “why is my Pod CrashLoopBackOff” Slack threads at 11 p.m.

What Is Platform Engineering? A Beginner's Guide

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:06:34 +0000

TL;DR - Platform Engineering is about building an internal product for your developers: paved roads, golden paths, and self-service workflows that reduce the cognitive load of getting code into production. It’s not DevOps with a new logo. It’s not SRE with extra steps. It’s a specific discipline with its own measurable goals.

Why this term exists

A decade of “DevOps” produced two outcomes. In the best companies, it built a real culture of shared ownership between development and operations. In most companies, it produced a small team of overworked specialists called “DevOps engineers” who became a human bottleneck - ticket queues, YAML on demand, “can you give me access to…” Slack messages at all hours.