Platform Engineering

The AI Coding Agent Race Is a Distraction—Here’s the Real Moat

The real battle for AI developer tools isn’t about agent intelligence—it’s about control. An open-source control plane for coding agents, like Eva, is the hidden moat that will let organizations safely deploy autonomous code generation at scale. Ignore governance, and you’ll be left with chaos.

Crossplane’s “No-Code” Promise Is a Lie. Here’s the Truth.

Crossplane sells engineers on a world where YAML replaces Go code for managing cloud infrastructure. It works — until it doesn’t. The moment you hit a non-standard resource, you’re back to writing custom providers. The real power of Crossplane isn’t eliminating custom code; it’s defining the boundary where YAML stops and engineering begins.

Stop Building Experimentation Tools for Each Team. Do This Instead.

Roku’s engineering team transformed their experiment analysis by decoupling data generation from analysis, building a unified platform that serves multiple teams. This approach eliminates duplicated effort, ensures consistent metrics, and scales across the organization. The lesson: stop building one-off tools for each team and start building infrastructure that works for everyone.