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Matt Menzenski

📍 Kansas City, Missouri https://menzen.ski

On Team Topologies and Deep Work: Delivering Value at Large Scale and Small Scale

This post is part of the Content Club, organized by Bryan Ross. The theme for February 2025 is "Team Topologies in the Real World". Links to other posts in this group are at the end of this post. I consider myself a big fan of the book Team

A 2024 Reading Recap

For the last eight years I've set myself a reading goal of twelve books a year. I started this practice the year after I dropped out of a humanities graduate program - I was a voracious reader as a kid, and was reading a ton in graduate school,

On the New Hugging Face Bluesky Dataset

As an undergraduate linguistics major in New Mexico, I was exposed to not only the languages of present-day America but also to lots of indigenous scholarship and writing on those languages. Some of the most eye-opening, "aha" moments of my college career came from those classes. I remember

f/8 and Be There

During KubeCon week last week I wrote and published four blog posts. If you count this one, written and published on the following Monday, I've published five blog posts in seven days (Tuesday through Monday). Now, while there's nothing particularly impressive about that (none of the

Financial Regulators are Platform Engineers

Yesterday I attended a KubeCon panel that ended up being one of my favorite KubeCon sessions of the week: "Platform Engineering In Financial Institutions: The Practitioner Panel". Moderated by Paula Kennedy (Syntasso), with panelists Chris Plank (NatWest Bank), Suhail Patel (Monzo), Jinhong Brejnholt (Saxo Bank), and Rachael Wonnacott

Platform as a Startup

The idea of treating engineering platforms as products has been getting a lot of traction recently. We're thinking in terms of "platform-as-a-product", we're doing user research and user interviews, we're hiring platform product managers, we're doing A/B testing on

Incident Response is Platform Engineering

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

A November 2024 Update

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,