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The 5 Pillars of Platform Engineering

2026-09-15 00:00 • by The Villain

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Over the past few years, something has happened that I did not entirely expect: people have started paying attention to what I have to say.

The Engineering Foundations Library

2026-07-08 00:00 • by The Villain

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Ok, let's talk about something that keeps annoying me.

We have a lot of engineers that know tools. They know Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo, AWS, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and whatever else happens to be in the stack this year. That is fine. Tools matter. The problem is that a lot of them do not understand the substrate those tools are built on.

Windows Toolbox [Updated]

2015-10-09 00:00 • by The Villain

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I know, I know, what the hell am I doing talking about windows, right? Well, unfortunately, even I get stuck having to run it in some instances, like when a vendor we work with uses a vpn that is only supported in win32. On the bright side, it is just a vm.