The Platform Pulse
A weekly briefing on what's actually changing across Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, AI, and SRE. Published on LinkedIn every Monday; each issue is archived here shortly after.
Edition 184 min readAI-Assisted Coding: Beyond Copilot
GitHub's 2026 survey: 76% of developers use AI-assisted coding daily, up from 41% in 2024 — but 68% of platform teams have no policy on it. That gap is going to drive the next 18 months of security incidents and quiet code-quality rot.
Edition 173 min readZero Trust for Platform Teams: Beyond the Marketing
NIST SP 800-207 translated into five concrete platform requirements. If your platform doesn't do all five, you're not doing Zero Trust regardless of what your vendor's marketing says — plus a 90/180/365-day roadmap that actually lands.
Edition 165 min readPlatform as a Product: The Mindset Shift Most Teams Refuse to Make
Humanitec's 2026 data shows teams with product practices get 3x higher adoption and 2x higher developer satisfaction. The hardest part of platform engineering isn't the tech — it's accepting that your developers are customers, and customers can defect.
Edition 153 min readMulti-Cluster Kubernetes: Strategies That Actually Scale
CNCF's 2026 fleet survey puts the median enterprise cluster count at 47, up from 12 in 2022. Most of those clusters shouldn't exist. The good reasons, the bad ones, and the identity problem that breaks every multi-cluster architecture around year three.
Edition 143 min readChaos Engineering Grew Up: From Netflix to Mainstream
DORA and NIS2 turned resilience testing from a Netflix engineering-culture story into a regulator's checkbox. The discipline had to grow up fast — the maturity ladder, the tool landscape, and why the game day matters more than the failure injection.
Edition 133 min readRAG-Powered Runbooks: When Your Documentation Wakes Up
Off-the-shelf LLMs fail in ops because they've never seen your architecture, your postmortems, or your alert history. RAG closes that gap — grounding every answer in your own writing — and turns the runbook from a stale wiki into an on-call teammate.
Edition 122 min readPolicy as Code: OPA, Kyverno, Cedar — Which Wins in 2026?
Three years ago OPA was the answer. Today Kyverno owns Kubernetes admission, Cedar is winning app-level auth, and the single-tool era is quietly ending — how to match each engine to its right control plane.
Edition 112 min readGolden Paths That Developers Actually Use
Spotify's golden-path concept turned ten this year. Most implementations get one thing wrong: they treat it as documentation. Documentation loses to copy-paste. Products win against copy-paste.
Edition 102 min readGitOps at Scale: Argo CD, Flux, and the Patterns That Survive 500 Clusters
CNCF's 2026 survey puts GitOps adoption at 82% of Kubernetes users, but only 23% report it 'just working' at scale. The gap is where the real engineering happens — the repo-structure debate, settled, and the multi-cluster patterns that actually hold up past 50.
Edition 92 min readThe End of On-Call As We Know It
A 2026 Honeycomb survey of 1,200 SREs found 38% are actively shrinking rotations because of AI-assisted triage. The technology story is easy; the human redesign is the hard part most orgs are skipping.
Edition 82 min readLLMOps: What Production-Grade Looks Like in 2026
The notebook worked. The demo wowed the board. Then production revealed LLMOps is just MLOps wearing a hoodie. The six-layer stack — and the eval layer everyone underestimates — that actually ships.