January 13, 2026
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Platform Engineering
From DevOps to Platform Engineering: The Evolution of Infrastructure
For years, I lived in the trenches of DevOps. My days were a mix of wrangling massive on-premise datacenter clusters and managing sleek, auto-scaling fleets on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It was exciting, but it was also exhausting. I saw the “You Build It, You Run It” mantra turn into “You Build It, You Run It, You Secure It, You Patch It, and You Wake Up at 3 AM When the Redis Pod Evicts Itself.”
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