ctx: tickets → self-service · SDLC → ADLC
Platform Monkey
Ninety tickets deep just to get a namespace. Every deploy waits on a human to click
apply. He snapped. We review the platform and AI tooling that ends ticket-ops —
self-service golden paths, real automation, and the jump from a human SDLC
to an agent-driven ADLC.
Latest releases
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Reviews
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Articles
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Guides
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What we cover
The tooling and practices we review — the CNCF landscape, the platform layer, and the AI workflows on top of it. Ticket queues out, self-service in.
- orchestration Kubernetes · k8s · CNCF · Helm · Kustomize · KEDA
- gitops Argo CD · Flux · GitOps · progressive delivery · Argo Rollouts
- iac Terraform · OpenTofu · Pulumi · Crossplane · Spacelift · Atlantis
- idp Internal Developer Platforms · Backstage · Port · Humanitec · golden paths
- observability Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry · Loki · Tempo · SLOs
- networking service mesh · Istio · Linkerd · Cilium · eBPF · Gateway API
- delivery CI/CD · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · DORA · platform DevEx
- security HashiCorp Vault · secrets · policy as code · OPA · Kyverno · supply chain
- finops Kubernetes cost · OpenCost · rightsizing · autoscaling
- ai AI agents · agentic workflows · MLOps · LLMOps · SDLC → ADLC