Shadow IT is usually just a polite way of saying your developers found a faster route around your broken infrastructure bottlenecks.
By standardizing the platform layer while giving engineers total freedom in their code, you can finally trade chaos for predictable behavior and sleep better at night. 🎯
Moving to automated guardrails means compliance becomes a deterministic outcome rather than a manual chore. âš¡
650 people, record heat, and some of the best tech conversations of the year. Swiss Software Festival 2026 delivered. 🙌
Aarno on sovereignty. Tobias on sausages, furniture and airplanes. Markus chairing Tech Track 2.
Read the full recap: https://www.vshn.ch/en/blog/swiss-software-festival-basel-2026-recap/
#SwissSoftwareFestival #PlatformEngineering #DigitalSovereignty
Spacelift surveyed 406 IT and platform leaders. Most teams are now shipping AI-written infrastructure code with minimal or no review, and nearly every org has had at least one AI-caused infrastructure incident in the past year. The structural fix is platform engineering, not AI policy decks. https://go.aintelligencehub.com/ma-aiinfrareviewgap2026
For the first time in a decade, humans are actually the minority on the open web.
While your legacy stack is busy waiting for human think-time, AI agents are already hammering your infrastructure with complex and zero-latency demands.
It is time to decide if these new users are a massive revenue stream or just a total system failure. 🎯
👉 https://upsun.com/blog/ai-agents-break-legacy-cloud/
#AIAgents #CloudInfrastructure #Modernization #PlatformEngineering
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Hey yo! What's that log group name again?
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--- they, as with a mind that leaks like a sieve, forgetting the name of the log group name that ECS is writing to because "what the fuck is a standard" and "you mean if we follow a pattern, it's easy to remember" are four letter words in some enterprises
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Not a problem with Wanderland. Just a bit of YAML and some Markdown and these things that were once load drones
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthepeaceandallthecooltoys #platformEngineering
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If Unix pipes and PowerShell had a baby and it was only the good parts.
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--- they, as to explain Vivarta's drones
#devops #PlatformEngineering #devopsendgamewithallthepeaceandallthecooltoys
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Gather 'round kids. Let me tell you about the time ECS had no good way to bounce services and `firkin assassin` was born
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--- they, gathering the kids 'round for a story - before showing them this updated version that uses declarative YAML and dynamic parameter generation to do the same thing
#devops #platformEngineering #devopsendgamewithallthepeaceandallthecooltoys
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Hey, how many classic load balancers are pointing directly at ECS cluster nodes with manual registrations instead of actually being integrated with the ECS service they're proxying?
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--- they, having started a new job, needing to cleanup some AL ECS Optimized 2016.03 AMI based instances and wondering what else might be a bit /eccentric/ with the environment before migrating the compute
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I love this little thing, a YAML compiler to create little declarative whatevers :: CLI tools, reports, synthetic users, load testing, HAR data, whatevers :: that pass context between them. Take a bit of Unix pipes and add the rich structure passed between Powershell commandlets without all the extra nonsense and you get roughly whatever this turned out to be. Plus parameters with caching for CLI tools with memory and it's all the glue you need to run a thing from the comfort of your office
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You mean my bedroom
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--- Squeaks, their cat, from the comfort of her bed
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