The CI/CD pipeline nobody maintains — why pipeline-as-code needs ownership
Pipeline YAML is code. It has bugs, tech debt, and dependencies. But nobody owns it, so it rots in place until something breaks at 2 AM.
The platform engineer's job is to delete toil, not build portals
Platform engineering got hijacked by portal builders. The actual job is making repetitive work disappear, not putting a UI on top of it.
Branch-based environments — how we stopped sharing staging
Shared staging environments are where feature branches go to conflict. Branch-based environments gave every PR its own isolated world, and it changed how we ship.
GitOps is not about Git
Most teams adopt GitOps and end up with git-flavored CI/CD. The part that actually matters is the reconciliation loop, not the repo.