Platform Engineering

Platform engineering is the discipline of building the foundations other engineers build on. Done well, it accelerates every team in the organization. Done poorly, it becomes the bottleneck nobody talks about until it breaks at 3am.

I’ve built platform infrastructure across multiple companies — from startup-scale single-cloud setups to enterprise multi-account, multi-region architectures. The posts here cover the practical decisions, hard lessons, and repeatable patterns I’ve encountered along the way.

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Dec 21, 2025
The Terraform Bootstrap Problem: How to Create Your State Backend Without Going Insane
The first real test of your infrastructure-as-code understanding: creating the Terraform state backend when it doesn't exist yet. My personal reference for handling the bootstrap problem across different scenarios. Covers production failure patterns, the bootstrap module approach that survives audits, migrating existing infrastructure, S3-compatible backend quirks, and a complete checklist. ~15 minutes read that might save you days of recovery work.
Dec 17, 2025
Mastering Multi-Environment Terraform: Strategies from the Trenches
Every infrastructure project starts with the same question: workspaces or folders? One repo or many? I've structured Terraform for multiple environments six different ways. Watched a senior engineer scale prod down to dev instance counts because workspace selection is invisible. Seen AWS bills spike 40% because someone copy-pasted the wrong tfvars. Here's what actually works for teams under 25 engineers, and the specific disasters that taught me why.