Platform Engineering
Every DataAgent post tagged Platform Engineering: 4 articles.
Engineering11 minIs AI Making Your SRE Team Better? Ask the Scale, Not the Mirror
AI makes engineers faster at producing changes and makes production less stable. Which effect wins depends on your platform. Four production numbers tell you whether AI is actually making your SRE team better.
Shahar Harap • Oct 11, 2026
Engineering13 minLeft of Boom, Right of Boom: Prevention and Remediation Are One Loop
The industry split reliability into two disciplines: prevent it, and survive it. Both ask the same causal question — which change produces which failure — and neither can answer it alone. Why the postmortem is a broken transfer mechanism.
Nati Shalom • Aug 26, 2026
Engineering14 minThe Great Inversion: AI Writes the Code, Production Pays the Review Bill
Generation got two orders of magnitude cheaper; human verification capacity did not move. GitClear's 2026 data shows duplication at its highest recorded level while refactoring falls — and the defects that reach production are structural, not syntactic.
Nati Shalom • Aug 26, 2026
Engineering7 minA Year of DevOps With an AI Agent
A year of running production infrastructure with an AI agent in the loop — EKS, Terraform, and the CI that holds it together. Not a 10x story: what actually changed was when my mistakes surfaced, what the work cost, and how much of it I had to remember myself.
Shahar Harap • Aug 24, 2026