They told me, in the beginning, that the system was designed to be resilient. What they did not tell me, what no one ever tells you until you have lived through it, is that resilience has a temperament. It is not gentle. It does not negotiate. It endures by refusing to care whether you understand it or not. I first […]
I was twenty-eight years old the first time a cluster tried to kill me. Not literally, of course. The cluster was just doing what clusters do when they smell blood. But at 2:14 a.m. on a wet Tuesday in a windowless SCIF somewhere in the Home Counties, with the citizen tax portal bleeding red across every monitoring dashboard in the […]
The aviation analogy was a beginning. It gave platform engineering one axis of the AI adoption problem: how to hand authority from humans to machines without catastrophe. But it is not enough. Five other industries navigated the same inflection point, and each left a different blueprint that DevOps has not yet read. In my previous post I drew on aviation’s […]
Aviation took a century and hundreds of lives to get autopilot right. Cloud platform engineering is attempting to compress that same journey into five years. The playbook for getting it right already exists — if we’re willing to read it. The Paradox Nobody Wants to Talk About Here is a number that should give every platform engineer pause: 84% of developers […]