Platform Engineering assumes you have a cloud. What if your cloud is a supercomputer?
Michele Brambilla's Ignite at DevOpsDays Zürich 2026: Platform Engineering for HPC at CSCS.
Using vCluster to turn bare-metal supercomputers into immutable, software-defined environments. From weather forecasting to AI, on demand.
https://www.devopsdays.ch/event/program/ignites/michele-brambilla/
For anyone needing a new blogging platform, have you just tried emacs?
[and a few bits]
Bit of yaml for the site map, bit of markdown for the contents
[and a few bits]
Few wobbly guys in the form of web components for the fidget friendly among us
New Nita post too. She has an interview and learns she really, really loves a good trace.
https://sprout.loss.dev/posts/engine-of-change
#emacs #hyprland #nita #wanderland #sprout #devops #platformengineering
You can have green DORA metrics and still have miserable developers.
Speed ≠ Joy.
To get real IDP adoption, we need to treat platforms like products. APIs aren't enough.
Read my new article for Platform Engineering here: https://platformengineering.org/blog/the-empathy-gap-why-your-platform-needs-ux-not-just-apis
Discover "the empathy gap" in platform engineering. Learn why relying only on APIs and DORA metrics leads to low Internal Developer Platform (IDP) adoption, and how treating your platform as a product with great UX can reduce cognitive friction and bring developers joy
#PlatformEngineering sits at the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience & product delivery.
Scaling Technical Excellence isn’t about more tools - it’s about embedding #DevOps principles - ownership, fast feedback loops, and psychological safety - directly into the developer workflow.
Learn how to build platforms that teams actually love!
🎬 Watch now | 📄 #transcript included: https://bit.ly/4bqL9tw
#DeveloperExperience #EngineeringLeadership #SociotechnicalArchitecture
New in Omni: On-ramp for Talos Linux clusters.
Centralizing infrastructure management shouldn't require a total rebuild of your current environment.
You can now bring established Talos Linux clusters into Omni via a single CLI command and immediately gain visibility and remote management capabilities while reducing the operational risk of manual cluster rebuilds.
Read about this update and more → https://www.siderolabs.com/blog/talos-omni-q4-2025-updates?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=q4-2025&utm_content=on_ramp
We've all had one of these
[Well, maybe not one of /these/]
A ticket from the blue that seems... Off?
Come see how Nita handles it in a new Sprout post
It's your first day at a new job.
No documentation, no coworkers, no runbooks.
Just a ticket that says 'deploy this.'
New Sprout post: Nita builds a deployment pipeline from nothing
Build a platform that developers want to use, and security teams can trust.
Manuel Schindler leads a 4-hour hands-on workshop at DevOpsDays Zürich 2026. Bootstrap a Thin Viable Platform on Kubernetes, establish supply chain security with Sigstore and Tekton, and design golden paths.
You switch between developer and platform engineer personas throughout.
https://www.devopsdays.ch/event/program/workshops/manuel-schindler/
In 1987 Sierra On-Line protected Leisure Suit Larry by asking you to look something up in the manual nobody had.
You cracked it by flipping JNZ to JZ in a hex editor.
I built a login screen for a fictional company in a blog series. It protects itself the same way — look up the seventh word on page 42, line 6 of the employee handbook that no one has.
The company is Infinity Co, a division of Zero Industries Ltd
Want to see what happens when you run out of login attempts?
Factories Without Belts #4 :: A Deadline and a DAG
There's a particular kind of quiet that settles over an open plan office when you're the only one in it.
It's not peaceful. It's diagnostic.
Nita is back at Infinity Co., alone again, with a deployment ticket, a half-built pipeline engine, and a coffee stain on her skirt from a pothole she didn't see coming. The service she's deploying divides numbers. Its default denominator is zero. The company is called Infinity Co. She has decided not to think about this too hard.
This one is about the decisions that don't make it into the ticket:
- Why you pick Compose over K8S when you don't know what cloud you're on.
- Why a rendered file is a better rollback artifact than an environment variable.
- Why your integration suite is probably too long and running at the wrong time.
Also: When JNZ met X/0
The engineering opinions are real. The company is not.
Three boxes checked. One still open. Kremis ships after lunch.
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