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I’m at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon NA this week, and attended the co-located Platform Engineering Day event yesterday. One of the talks there was given by my friend Atulpriya Sharma (GitHub: @techmaharaj), on the topic “Are you really ready to adopt a platform?” (materials are here - thank you Atul for making these available). In his talk, Atul provided a questionnaire and scorecard that an organization could use to self-assess their “platform engineering readiness” prior to or during an initial investment in a platform engineering function. One of the questions in the list was about the incident response process in the organization, and the inclusion of that question (of an incident response question in a platform engineering checklist) really got me thinking. I pivot here from Atul’s talk to my own opinions (I also live-skeeted some of these thoughts). ...

I posted a “Hello World” on this blog eighteen months ago (almost exactly). I’m finally ready to post a sequel. “Write more” and “write in public” have been goals of mine for a long time. I’ve tinkered with my blog, I’ve thought about writing, I’ve done a lot of work except for the kind of work that matters, which is actually write and publish. This post is me taking a concrete step in the right direction. I am writing, and I am publishing. ...

Hello, world! More to come here shortly, stay tuned.