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DevOps and Platform Engineering Readiness Checklist: Everything Needed for a Scalable, Secure, High-Velocity Delivery Platform

A practical checklist for platform engineering teams to improve DevOps, golden paths, reliability, governance, and developer experience at scale.

May 27, 2026

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce

CORE

· 3,318 Views · 2 Likes

Beyond Partitioning and Z-Order: A Deep Dive into Liquid Clustering for Unity Catalog Managed Tables

Liquid Clustering replaces rigid partitioning and Z-Order with adaptive clustering in Unity Catalog, improving performance with less maintenance.

May 26, 2026

by Seshendranath Balla Venkata

· 2,951 Views · 1 Like

Architecting an Embedded Efficiency Layer: A Platform Deep Dive into Day-Two Operational Tuning

Learn how platform teams can embed continuous optimization into internal developer platforms using GitOps, HITL workflows, and full-stack tuning.

May 26, 2026

by Graziano Casto

CORE

· 2,409 Views · 2 Likes

Product-Led Software Delivery: Intelligent Platforms for DevOps at Scale

Platform engineering helps DevOps teams scale with golden paths, DevEx metrics, automation, and AI guardrails that reduce friction and improve delivery.

May 25, 2026

by Fawaz Ghali, PhD

CORE

· 2,664 Views · 1 Like

A Deep Dive into Tracing Agentic Workflows (Part 1)

Agentic systems fail silently — loops, hallucinations, corrupted state. You can't debug or improve what you don't trace.

May 22, 2026

by VIVEK KATARYA

· 3,168 Views · 1 Like

11 Agentic Testing Tools to Know in 2026

This article is a review of tools used to autonomously plan, generate, maintain, and execute tests.

May 22, 2026

by Alvin Lee

CORE

· 2,870 Views

Dear Micromanager: Your Distrust Has a Job; It’s Just Not the One You’re Doing

Dear micromanager, your distrust has a job — it’s just not the one you’re doing; learn about the role of the Verification Architect.

May 21, 2026

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,624 Views

Retesting Best Practices for Agile Teams: A Quick Guide to Bug Fix Verification

Retesting isn’t a checkbox — it’s discipline: reproduce, verify fixes, test edges, run regression, validate in staging, document, automate, and never skip it.

May 19, 2026

by Alok Kumar

· 2,821 Views · 1 Like

Securing Everything: Mapping the Right Identity and Access Protocol (OIDC, OAuth2, and SAML) to the Right Identity

AuthN verifies identity and AuthZ defines access. Modern systems use OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, and M2M flows for secure human and machine access.

May 18, 2026

by Ananth Iyer

· 2,423 Views

The Third Culture: Blending Teams With Different Management Models

44% of failed teams integrations are caused by cultural friction. One of the safest ways to reduce this risk is to build a third culture.

May 18, 2026

by Evgeniy Tolstykh

· 1,448 Views · 1 Like

Why Your QA Engineer Should Be the Most Stubborn Person on the Team

Strong QA is not checklist work. It combines investigation, analytical thinking, and technical communication to find failure paths early and improve the system over time.

May 14, 2026

by Alex Vakulov

CORE

· 1,989 Views · 3 Likes

You Learned AI. So Why Are You Still Not Getting Hired?

Most AI job seekers learn tools. Employers hire people who can specify tasks, evaluate outputs, manage risk, and deliver real business value with AI.

May 13, 2026

by Faisal Feroz

· 5,433 Views · 4 Likes

Stop Using the ATM-Didn’t-Kill-Jobs Story to Reassure Developers About AI

The ATM didn’t kill bank tellers’ jobs — the iPhone did. Getting the history right isn’t reassuring; it clarifies why developers should pay attention.

May 13, 2026

by Thomas Johnson

CORE

· 3,572 Views

The 7 Pillars of Meeting Design: Transforming Expensive Conversations into Decision Assets

Most meetings waste engineering time, increase latency, and break focus. The 7 Pillars of Meeting Design help teams create efficient, outcome-driven decisions.

May 12, 2026

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 2,595 Views · 1 Like

AI-Driven Integration in Large-Scale Agile Environments

Learn how AI integrates with Agile at scale, improving velocity and insights while requiring human oversight, bias control, and continuous feedback.

May 11, 2026

by Abhijit Roy

· 2,965 Views · 1 Like

The Death of "Text-Only" ChatOps: Why Google's A2UI Matters for DevOps and SRE

Google’s A2UI lets AI agents send secure JSON blueprints that render native, interactive UIs, replacing ChatOps text walls with click-to-act ops workflows.

May 8, 2026

by Deneesh Narayanasamy

· 2,124 Views

Designing Self-Healing AI Infrastructure: The Role of Autonomous Recovery

Distributed AI systems fail faster than humans can respond, making traditional response insufficient. Self-healing systems use telemetry and automation to recover early.

May 7, 2026

by Sayali Patil

· 4,913 Views · 5 Likes

Designing Agentic Systems Like Distributed Systems

Agentic systems behave like distributed systems - unpredictable and failure-prone, requiring orchestration, contracts, and strong observability.

May 6, 2026

by Satyam Nikhra

· 2,560 Views · 1 Like

Beyond Conversation: Mastering Context with Claude Code Skills and Agents

Stop "talking" to LLMs and start engineering context flows. The shift from chatbot to system component requires moving from monolithic prompts to modular agentic skills.

May 5, 2026

by Ioan Tinca

· 5,405 Views · 5 Likes

AI Didn't Replace Seniors; It Just Made Them the Bottleneck

The code generation era shipped a paradox: faster output, slower understanding, and a talent pipeline headed for collapse.

May 5, 2026

by Abgar Simonean

· 2,623 Views · 3 Likes

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