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Platform engineering insights, infrastructure governance, and lessons from building an IDP.
I Imported HashiCorp's Own Terraform Repo Into a Governed Blueprint
Your team already has Terraform. The last thing they want to hear is "rewrite everything in our format." So I didn't ask them to — I imported HashiCorp's own public Terraform repo into a governed blueprint.
4 min readI Deployed a Bedrock AI Agent Through My IDP in 4 Minutes
Deploying an AI agent on AWS AgentCore requires 8+ infrastructure components. I encoded all the learnings into a governed blueprint — now anyone on the team can deploy one by filling 5 fields.
5 min readWhy I Built an IDP Solo — As a Solutions Architect Who Doesn't Like Writing Terraform
I design cloud infrastructure for a living. VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies. I've done it hundreds of times. But here's my dirty secret: I hate deploying what I design.
10 min readInfrastructure Drift: The Security Risk Hiding in Your AWS Account
Someone added an inbound rule to a security group at 2 AM. Your Terraform state doesn't know. Your compliance team doesn't know. Here's why drift detection matters more than you think.
5 min readBackstage vs Port vs Humanitec vs AskArchie: What Actually Deploys?
The IDP market is crowded with portals, catalogs, and orchestrators. But when you look at what each tool actually does end-to-end, the differences are stark.
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