ctx: tickets → self-service · SDLC → ADLC
Platform Monkey
Platform engineering and AI tool reviews — because ninety tickets
to get a namespace and every deploy blocked on a human clicking
apply is not a process, it's a queue.
How we judge
Tools — we review the platforms, pipelines, and agents that replace ticket queues with self-service golden paths: IDPs, GitOps, observability, IaC, and the AI agents now doing the work humans used to wait on.
Architecture — we cover the patterns that tie them together: how control planes, platform APIs, and reconciliation loops compose into systems that run without a human in the loop.
The bar — we rate everything on how far it moves teams from a
human-paced SDLC to an agent-driven ADLC, not on
feature checklists.
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