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Built by

Yuval Glasman

Platform Architect & Cloud Engineering Leader

10+ years building and scaling cloud platforms, Kubernetes clusters, GitOps pipelines, and developer self-service at global fintech scale. Now tracking the shift from human-paced SDLC to agent-driven ADLC — and reviewing the tools that make it real.

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What we do

Platform Monkey reviews the tooling that gets engineering teams out of ticket queues and into self-service — internal developer platforms, GitOps, observability, IaC automation, and the AI agents now doing the work humans used to wait on.

The old loop is death by ticket: open a request to provision a namespace, wait days for someone to click apply, escalate, repeat. We cover the platforms that replace that with golden paths developers drive themselves, and the automation that means no human is the bottleneck between a commit and production.

Why this matters

The bigger shift we track: from a human-paced SDLC to an agent-driven ADLC — where agents plan, change, test, and ship inside guardrails, and platform teams design the rails instead of running the errands. We rate tools on how far they move you toward that, not on feature checklists.

We research public docs and pricing, publish static articles, and update pages when pricing or features actually change — not on a marketing calendar.