platform-engineering

Argo ApplicationSets Are Easy. Making Your App Deployable Is Not.

platform-engineering

Argo ApplicationSets Are Easy. Making Your App Deployable Is Not.

Per-PR preview environments with Argo CD ApplicationSets are the easy part. The hard part is making your app actually deployable on its own — the work an agent can't do for you.

Building Access Management for ISO 27001 on Keycloak

platform-engineering

Building Access Management for ISO 27001 on Keycloak

How we built a lightweight IAM solution on Keycloak to manage permissions across all our tools - driven by ISO 27001, not by budget for an enterprise product.

Vibe-Docs: Documentation Won't Make It

platform-engineering

Vibe-Docs: Documentation Won't Make It

Traditional documentation is becoming obsolete. AI reads your actual codebase faster and more accurately than anyone reads your outdated Confluence wiki. Write clean code, document your decisions, let AI handle the rest.

Why Backstage might not be worth it

platform-engineering

Why Backstage might not be worth it

I spent months building an internal developer platform on Backstage, then scrapped it and rebuilt it in days. Here's why its plugins are just frontend displays — and when to skip it.

Backstage? I thought you were doing software engineering!

platform-engineering

Backstage? I thought you were doing software engineering!

From Spotify's internal tool to a CNCF project: what Backstage is, the developer-portal problem it solves, and why platform engineering teams keep reaching for it.

backstage/sign-in-with-github

platform-engineering

backstage/sign-in-with-github

how to set up GitHub authentication and add a user to backstage