Selected essays, articles, and other written work on Platform Engineering, organizational design, and the future of knowledge work.
Featured Essays
- Why platform engineering will eat the world - The foundational thesis on platform engineering as the inevitable evolution of software development practices
- Why every Internal Developer Platform needs a backend - Making the conceptual distinction between frontend tooling and systematic platform architecture
- Dark Side of Self-Service - How cognitive load and abstraction failures undermine self-service rhetoric in developer tooling
- Evaluating DevOps Maturity - Earlier marker of thinking on maturity, benchmarking, and operational reality
Recent Writing
My most recent writing appears in my newsletter, which covers Platform Engineering, AI application platforms, and organizational design.
Videos and Podcasts
I regularly speak at conferences and on podcasts about platform engineering and organizational design. Recent appearances include discussions on the future of Internal Developer Platforms and AI's role in citizen development.