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.
What this topic covers
- Infrastructure-as-code patterns that survive real production pressure.
- Terraform state, environment strategy, and module boundaries.
- Platform decisions that reduce toil and increase delivery confidence.
Start here
- The Terraform Bootstrap Problem: How to Create Your State Backend Without Going Insane
- Mastering Multi-Environment Terraform: Strategies from the Trenches
For the organizational side of platform decisions, read Engineering Leadership. For AI-related effects on platform and delivery workflows, see AI and Software Engineering.