#platform-engineering
5 posts
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Every Cluster Has a Bus Factor of One
Your Kubernetes cluster probably depends on one person who understands how it actually works. That's not a team structure problem — it's an infrastructure design problem.
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Your RBAC Is Just ClusterAdmin With Extra Steps
Most Kubernetes RBAC configurations exist to satisfy a compliance checkbox, not to actually limit access. The result is a permission model that gives you the overhead of authorization without any of the safety.
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Your Platform Team Is a Product Team (Whether You Like It Or Not)
If your developers avoid your internal platform, you don't have an adoption problem. You have a product problem. Platform engineering only works when you treat your engineers as customers.
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Self-Serve Is a Lie You Tell Yourself
Every platform team says they're building self-serve. Most are building a ticket system with extra steps. The difference is whether you've internalized what self-serve actually costs.
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Your Platform Is a Product (And Nobody Wants to Hear That)
Most internal platforms fail not because the technology is wrong, but because the team forgot they're shipping a product.