Library
Everything I've written or presented on platform engineering, with a link to each.
Research 12
01 The future of AI-native is open source NVIDIA and AMD opening up their AI software layers gives platform teams capability, not lock-in. I compare a production stack built on each and set out five tests for judging an opinionated AI stack. 02 State of AI in Platform Engineering 2026 38% of organisations now ship twice as much since AI, but only 8% see a real return. Our data says the bottleneck is the platform, not the model. With Luca Galante, Florian Lipp 03 Platform engineering 2.0: An evolution for the AI era Platform engineering for AI is an evolution, not a revolution. The Internal Developer Platform becomes an Agentic Engineering Platform (AEP) on the same operating model, and I set out the five pillars to get there. With Pankaj Gupta 04 Operationalizing AI coding agents in regulated industries Autonomous coding agents break the governance banks and governments rely on, and IDE-level controls won't fix it. I argue the workspace is the right control surface: policy as code, audit trails and clear limits on what each agent can do. 05 The great unlock: How platform engineering creates AI-native enterprises Most enterprises are stuck between AI pilots and production. I explain the difference between AI-enabled and AI-native, and why platform engineering is the operating model that gets you from one to the other. 06 Vulnerability management for platform engineers "Shift left" turned fixing CVEs into a tax on every developer. Security should shift down into the platform, and I lay out the four capabilities that make that work. 07 State of Platform Engineering Report: Volume 4 We surveyed 500+ platform engineers and leaders. Platform engineering has become the operating model for AI-native companies, and is spreading into security, observability and FinOps. With Luca Galante 08 Observability for platform engineers Observability should be a core platform capability, not a pile of tools each team buys for itself. I cover OpenTelemetry, automation at scale, and running observability as a product. 09 Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management for platform engineers How platform teams move from looking after clusters by hand to automated, standardised blueprints, including running many clusters and staying compliant. 10 Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) for Platform Engineers Why cloud development environments belong in a platform strategy: standard setups, self-service, and a faster inner loop for developers. 11 State of AI in Platform Engineering 2025 88% of engineers use AI regularly, but individual gains weren't turning into results for the organisation. We called it the implementation plateau, and argued platform engineers are the ones who can get past it. With Luca Galante 12 State of Platform Engineering Report Volume 3 300+ platform teams, a maturity model for the industry, and a finding that surprised people: more than half of platform teams were under two years old. With Luca GalanteOn stage 5
Panel AI Didn't Remove the Bottleneck. It Moved It Speaker, Coder panel recorded at Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara (published on Platform Engineering YouTube)
Panel Why AI Fails Without a Platform Moderator, Platform Engineering Meetup, San Francisco (with CircleCI)
Panel How platforms are foundational to AI: Platform engineering exec roundtable Panelist, Platform Engineering YouTube
Panel Platform Engineering 2025: What “great” looks like now Moderator, PlatformCon 2025 Live Day London
In conversation 25
Webinar The Evolution to Platform Engineering 2.0 Speaker, VMware Cloud Foundation (Broadcom) webinar
Webinar Platform engineering 2.0: 5 pillars your platform needs in 2026 and beyond Speaker, Platform Engineering YouTube
Webinar Platform Engineering in the AI-Native Era: How to Scale AI Adoption Without Chaos. With SPS Commerce Panelist, Jellyfish webinar
Webinar Why platform engineering is India's next big engineering career shift Speaker, Platform Engineering YouTube
Interview OpenClaw in God Mode: The Agent Risk Platform Teams Face Host, Weave Intelligence Interviews (Platform Engineering YouTube)
Webinar Feb Event: The Platform Engineering Revolution: Industry Data and What It Means for Your Team Speaker, VMUG
Webinar Decoding Platform Engineering's Rise: 2025 Industry Report and Key Insights Speaker, VMware Cloud Foundation (Broadcom) webinar
Podcast Why Your Platform Engineering Is Failing (And How to Fix It) - Tech Lead Journal #247 Guest, Tech Lead Journal
Interview How We Cut Pipeline Lead Time From 20 to 8 Minutes Host, Weave Intelligence Interviews (Platform Engineering YouTube)
Interview The Platform Roadmap Trick: Budget 30% for Urgent Care Host, Weave Intelligence Interviews (Platform Engineering YouTube)
Interview How Kubernetes Is Adapting to AI Workloads Host, Weave Intelligence Interviews (Platform Engineering YouTube)
Interview Platform Engineering Is the Foundation of Modern IT Host, Weave Intelligence Interviews (Platform Engineering YouTube)
Webinar State of Platform Engineering in 2026: Salary, maturity, and shifting down Speaker, Platform Engineering YouTube
Interview What it takes to lead 100+ platform engineers: Hiring, playbook & more Host, Weave Intelligence Interviews (Platform Engineering YouTube)
Interview What Platform Product Management Really Is Host, Weave Intelligence Interviews (Platform Engineering YouTube)
Interview Why Security Teams Are Turning to Platform Engineering Host, Weave Intelligence Interviews (Platform Engineering YouTube)
Webinar Platform engineering in 2025: What changed, AI, and the future of platforms Speaker, Platform Engineering YouTube
Podcast eAfterWork EP 8: How Platform Engineering Is Key to Successful AI With Guest, eAfterWork (Aziz IM YouTube)
Interview Does Your Platform Need a Risk Owner? Host, Weave Intelligence Interviews (Platform Engineering YouTube)
Interview From 10 Days to 3 Minutes: Fixing Developer Friction Host, Weave Intelligence Interviews (Platform Engineering YouTube)
Webinar 5 takeaways from PlatformCon 2025: From “great” platforms, to doing AI right Speaker, Platform Engineering YouTube
Writing 31
Article PlatformCon 2026 wrap-up: No AI at scale without platform engineering platformengineering.org
Article Vulnerability management core capabilities every platform should have platformengineering.org
Article The biggest challenges platform engineering teams are facing in 2026 platformengineering.org
Article What enterprises actually want from platform engineering service providers: Beyond tools to transformation platformengineering.org
Article OpenTelemetry: The platform engineer's path to standardized observability platformengineering.org
Article One year of platform engineering certifications: What 2,000 students taught us platformengineering.org
Article Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management: From manual operations to automated excellence platformengineering.org
Article AI-powered platforms vs platforms for AI: A platform engineer’s guide platformengineering.org
Article Why enterprises fail at platform engineering: Project vs Product mindset platformengineering.org
Article How to measure developer productivity and platform ROI: A complete framework for platform engineers platformengineering.org
In the press 3
Press What Is the Platform for Platform Engineering 2.0? PlatformEngineering.com (Techstrong Group), Alan Shimel