Enterprise sales cycles today usually end in a familiar ultimatum: we love the product, but it has to run in our VPC. For the customer, the logic is flawless. They keep their data, they use their own cloud credits, and their CISO sleeps better at night. To a salesperson, it is the key to closing a seven-figure deal. To an…
Category: Platform Engineering
The actual meaning of Platform Engineering
If we’re being honest, most engineering orgs aren’t actually suffering from bad tools. They’re suffering from a massive amount of cognitive overhead. We’ve reached this weird point where we expect every product team to not only ship features but also be part-time cloud architects, CI/CD experts, and security specialists. They’re managing secrets, wrestling with Terraform, and trying to figure out…