Platform Engineering (ex @Netflix, ex @Hashicorp)
Joined March 2008
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Recently I went to the Edo Tokyo museum in Sumida-ku, Tokyo.
They have amazing dioramas with detailed miniature characters that show what it was like during that time.
For fun I took pictures, and then put them into Gemini and asked it to make them move.
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Joining @eirnikalli from @GitHubResearch for a fireside chat at @Findy_Inc's AI Dev Experience 2026 in Tokyo 🇯🇵
Research meets reality: AI adoption theory vs. what it actually looks like building an AI-enabled dev lifecycle at @Mercari.
dev-productivity-con.findy-c…
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When I built menugen ~1 year ago, I observed that the hardest part by far was not the code itself, it was the plethora of services you have to assemble like IKEA furniture to make it real, the DevOps: services, payments, auth, database, security, domain names, etc...
I am really looking forward to a day where I could simply tell my agent: "build menugen" (referencing the post) and it would just work. The whole thing up to the deployed web page. The agent would have to browse a number of services, read the docs, get all the api keys, make everything work, debug it in dev, and deploy to prod. This is the actually hard part, not the code itself. Or rather, the better way to think about it is that the entire DevOps lifecycle has to become code, in addition to the necessary sensors/actuators of the CLIs/APIs with agent-native ergonomics. And there should be no need to visit web pages, click buttons, or anything like that for the human.
It's easy to state, it's now just barely technically possible and expected to work maybe, but it definitely requires from-scratch re-design, work and thought. Very exciting direction!
When @karpathy built MenuGen (karpathy.bearblog.dev/vibe-c…), he said:
"Vibe coding menugen was exhilarating and fun escapade as a local demo, but a bit of a painful slog as a deployed, real app. Building a modern app is a bit like assembling IKEA future. There are all these services, docs, API keys, configurations, dev/prod deployments, team and security features, rate limits, pricing tiers."
We've all run into this issue when building with agents: you have to scurry off to establish accounts, clicking things in the browser as though it's the antediluvian days of 2023, in order to unblock its superintelligent progress.
So we decided to build Stripe Projects to help agents instantly provision services from the CLI.
For example, simply run:
$ stripe projects add posthog/analytics
And it'll create a PostHog account, get an API key, and (as needed) set up billing.
Projects is launching today as a developer preview. You can register for access (we'll make it available to everyone soon) at projects.dev. We're also rolling out support for many new providers over the coming weeks. (Get in touch if you'd like to make your service available.)
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michael galloway retweeted
The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead | Boris Tane boristane.com/blog/the-softw…
My next article in my series on Defining a Platform Engineering is focused on developing a vision for your organization. This is a crucial step if you want to be an organization that operates with a product-mind.
link.medium.com/Ft9v2dxOivb
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A wonderful and brilliant mind passed away recently. @_Tiacaldwell thank you for impacting my life through your friendship and wisdom. Rest In Peace.
I've learned a few things over the years about #platformengineering. To help others that are just getting started:
Your Platform Org needs a purpose. Here’s how to find it. link.medium.com/ofOYXL2aaub
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#election2020
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michael galloway retweeted
America, we’re paying for a campaign commercial in a house we own for a man most Americans didn’t vote for.
Excited about our new initiative! Managed Delivery: Evolving Continuous Delivery at Netflix medium.com/p/managed-deliver…
#netflix #spinnaker #continuousdelivery #manageddelivery
Spinnaker Summit 2019: Thinking about giving a talk? Here's your opportunity! Spinnaker Summit 2019 Call for Proposals is still open, but scheduled to close this month. Share your knowledge and experience with the community! #spinnaker #netflix
spinnakersummit.com/cfp
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michael galloway retweeted
Looking forward to speaking at @PrairieDevCon next week.
Two talks on various aspects of the engineering culture at Netflix as it relates to delivering software.
I've tried for the past two days to log into my #equifax account, to be continually told by support folks to "come back tomorrow". Credit agencies are our financial system's tech debt.
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"Inside Netflix: 4 startup qualities I love" linkedin.com/pulse/inside-ne… by @michaelgalloway on @LinkedIn
"Kicking off a new Open Source project" linkedin.com/pulse/kicking-o… by @michaelgalloway on @LinkedIn
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michael galloway retweeted
Two more weeks until our next automation meetup here at @Netflix! Let's talk about scaling test and stability!
netflixautomationseries.spla…
Hosted a Netflix Automation Happy Hour lnkd.in/bfktiGn met some brilliant minds! @netflixdevices
