Platform Engineering Podcast
Building internal developer platforms that earn adoption — golden paths, Backstage, self-service, and the developer-experience work behind a real paved road.
About the Platform Engineering hub
Platform engineering is the discipline of building the paved road so application teams stop reinventing the same gravel path. These conversations focus on internal developer platforms that earn adoption instead of mandating it: golden paths that are genuinely the easiest option, self-service that doesn't dead-end at a ticket queue, and the unglamorous product work of treating your own engineers as customers.
We get into the hard questions a platform team eventually faces, from where to draw the abstraction line to how you measure developer experience without gaming the metric. Expect candid talk about Backstage and other portals, the build-vs-buy tradeoffs nobody enjoys, and why the best platforms are judged by what they let teams forget about rather than the features they ship.
Episodes on Platform Engineering
EKS Rollbacks, GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attacks, AI Agentjacking, CloudWatch Log Alarms, and Why Safety Nets Don’t Replace OwnershipEpisode: EKS Rollbacks, GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attacks, AI Agentjacking, CloudWatch Log Alarms, and Why Safety Nets Don’t Replace OwnershipThis week on Ship It Weekly: Amazon EKS added Kubernetes version rollbacks, Novee Security published Cordyceps research on GitHub Actions supply chain risk, Tenet Security showed how fake…
Ship It Conversations: Jake Warner on Cycle.io, Bare Metal’s Comeback, and Why Private Cloud Is Getting Interesting AgainEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Jake Warner on Cycle.io, Bare Metal’s Comeback, and Why Private Cloud Is Getting Interesting AgainThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Jake Warner, founder and…
Ship It Conversations: Gareth Kersey on IaCConf 2026, AI, and Corey Quinn’s Terraform KeynoteEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Gareth Kersey on IaCConf 2026, AI, and Corey Quinn’s Terraform KeynoteThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.This episode is not sponsored. I wanted to cover IaCConf because the theme…
Ship It Conversations: Stephane Moser on Pipedrive’s Jenkins-to-GitHub Actions Migration, Argo CD, and CI/CD at ScaleEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Stephane Moser on Pipedrive’s Jenkins-to-GitHub Actions Migration, Argo CD, and CI/CD at ScaleThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Stephane Moser about Pipedrive’s…
Ship It Conversations: David Tuite on Backstage, Internal Developer Portals, and the Shift to AI AgentsEpisode: Ship It Conversations: David Tuite on Backstage, Internal Developer Portals, and the Shift to AI AgentsThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with David Chute, founder and…
Special: OpenClaw Security Timeline and Fallout: CVE-2026-25253 One-Click Token Leak, Malicious ClawHub Skills, Exposed Agent Control Panels, and Why Local AI Agents Are a New DevOps/SRE Control Plane (OpenAI Hires Founder)Episode: Special: OpenClaw Security Timeline and Fallout: CVE-2026-25253 One-Click Token Leak, Malicious ClawHub Skills, Exposed Agent Control Panels, and Why Local AI Agents Are a New DevOps/SRE Control Plane (OpenAI Hires Founder)In this Ship It Weekly special, Brian breaks down the OpenClaw situation and why it’s bigger than “another CVE.”OpenClaw is a preview of what platform teams are about…
When guardrails break prod: GitHub “Too Many Requests” from legacy defenses, Kubernetes nodes/proxy GET RCE, HCP Vault resilience in an AWS regional outage, and PCI DSS scope creepEpisode: When guardrails break prod: GitHub “Too Many Requests” from legacy defenses, Kubernetes nodes/proxy GET RCE, HCP Vault resilience in an AWS regional outage, and PCI DSS scope creepThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian hits four stories where the guardrails become the incident.GitHub had “Too Many Requests” caused by legacy abuse protections that outlived their…
Azure VM Control Plane Outage, GitHub Agent HQ (Claude + Codex), Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini CLI, MCPEpisode: Azure VM Control Plane Outage, GitHub Agent HQ (Claude + Codex), Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini CLI, MCPThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian hits four “control plane + trust boundary” stories where the glue layer becomes the incident.Azure had a platform incident that impacted…
CodeBreach in AWS CodeBuild, Bazel TLS Certificate Expiry Breaks Builds, Helm Charts Reliability Audit, and New n8n Sandbox Escape RCEEpisode: CodeBreach in AWS CodeBuild, Bazel TLS Certificate Expiry Breaks Builds, Helm Charts Reliability Audit, and New n8n Sandbox Escape RCEThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at four “glue failures” that can turn into real outages and real security risk.We start with CodeBreach: AWS disclosed a…
Ship It Conversations: AI Automation for SMBs: What to Automate (And What Not To) (with Austin Reed)Episode: Ship It Conversations: AI Automation for SMBs: What to Automate (And What Not To) (with Austin Reed)This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Austin Reed from horizon.dev…
curl Shuts Down Bug Bounties Due to AI Slop, AWS RDS Blue/Green Cuts Switchover Downtime to ~5 Seconds, and Amazon ECR Adds Cross-Repository Layer SharingEpisode: curl Shuts Down Bug Bounties Due to AI Slop, AWS RDS Blue/Green Cuts Switchover Downtime to ~5 Seconds, and Amazon ECR Adds Cross-Repository Layer SharingThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at three different versions of the same problem: systems are getting faster, but human attention is still the bottleneck.We start…
n8n Auth RCE (CVE-2026-21877), GitHub Artifact Permissions, and AWS DevOps Agent LessonsEpisode: n8n Auth RCE (CVE-2026-21877), GitHub Artifact Permissions, and AWS DevOps Agent LessonsThis week on Ship It Weekly, the theme is simple: the automation layer has become a control plane, and that changes how you should think about risk.We start…
n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix TemporalEpisode: n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix TemporalThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian’s theme is basically: the “automation layer” is not a side tool anymore. It’s part of your perimeter, part of your reliability…
Ship It Conversations: Backstage vs Internal IDPs, and Why DevEx Muscle Matters (with Danny Teller)Episode: Ship It Conversations: Backstage vs Internal IDPs, and Why DevEx Muscle Matters (with Danny Teller)This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).I sat down with Danny Teller, a DevOps Architect and Tech Lead Manager…
Fail Small, IaC Control Planes, and Automated RCAEpisode: Fail Small, IaC Control Planes, and Automated RCAThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian kicks off the new year with one theme: automation is getting faster, and that makes blast radius and oversight matter more…
Ship It Conversations: From Full-Stack to Cloud/DevOps, One Project at a Time (with Eric Paatey)Episode: Ship It Conversations: From Full-Stack to Cloud/DevOps, One Project at a Time (with Eric Paatey)This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).I sat down with Eric Paatey, a Cloud & DevOps Engineer who’s been…
Cloudflare’s Workers Scheduler, AWS DBs on Vercel, and JIT Admin AccessEpisode: Cloudflare’s Workers Scheduler, AWS DBs on Vercel, and JIT Admin AccessThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at real platform engineering in the wild.We start with Cloudflare’s write-up on building an internal maintenance scheduler on Workers. It’s…
Ship It Conversations: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam)Episode: Ship It Conversations: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam)This is a Ship It Weekly conversation episode. The weekly news recaps are still weekly. These interviews drop in between when I find someone worth talking to and…
GitHub Runner Pricing Pause, Terraform Cloud Limits, and AI in CIEpisode: GitHub Runner Pricing Pause, Terraform Cloud Limits, and AI in CIThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at how the “platform tax” is showing up everywhere: pricing model shifts, CI dependencies, and new security boundaries thanks to…
IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on AuroraEpisode: IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on AuroraIn this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian powers through a cold and digs into a very “infra grown-up” week in DevOps.First up, IBM is buying Confluent for…
AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing StagingEpisode: AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing StagingIn this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at re:Invent through a platform/SRE lens and pulls out the updates that actually change how you design and run…
Kubernetes Config Reality Check, EKS Control Planes, and GitHub GuardrailsEpisode: Kubernetes Config Reality Check, EKS Control Planes, and GitHub GuardrailsIn this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into what’s new for people actually running infra: Kubernetes config, EKS control planes and networking, and GitHub’s latest CI/CD…
Kubernetes Shake-ups, Platform Reality, and AI-Native SREEpisode: Kubernetes Shake-ups, Platform Reality, and AI-Native SREIn this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into 3 big themes for anyone running Kubernetes or building internal platforms.First, Kubernetes is officially retiring Ingress NGINX and…
Special: When the Cloud Has a Bad Day: Cloudflare, AWS us-east-1 & GitHub OutagesEpisode: Special: When the Cloud Has a Bad Day: Cloudflare, AWS us-east-1 & GitHub OutagesIn this special kickoff episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian walks through three major outages from the last few weeks and what they actually mean for DevOps, SRE,…
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Frequently asked questions
What does the platform engineering hub cover?
Episodes on building internal developer platforms that earn adoption instead of mandating it — golden paths that are genuinely the easiest option, self-service that doesn't dead-end at a ticket queue, and the product work of treating your own engineers as customers.
Does it get into Backstage and developer portals?
Yes — expect candid talk about Backstage and other portals, the build-vs-buy tradeoffs, and how to measure developer experience without gaming the metric.
Who should listen?
Platform engineers, platform leads, and anyone deciding where to draw the abstraction line or how to make a paved road teams actually choose.
How are episodes selected for this hub?
They are auto-matched on platform-engineering topics — internal developer platforms, IDPs, Backstage, golden paths, and developer experience — so the feed stays current as new episodes publish.
Is there a written companion?
Yes — On Call Brief publishes a Platform Engineering News digest, linked from this page, for the read-it-later version.