Platform Engineering Monthly — May 2025
Welcome to the eighteenth edition of Platform Engineering Monthly!
📰 News
Whose code am I running in GitHub Actions? — Interesting breakdown of how GitHub Actions works and the risks involved.
Introducing Docker Hardened Images: Secure, Minimal, and Ready for Production — Docker looks to be going after Chainguard.
What We Learned Building a Prototype AI-Driven Dev Interface for Kratix — Written by me, I played with some MCP servers and learned some things.
37signals Says Goodbye to AWS: Full S3 Migration and $10M in Projected Savings — 37signals moves off AWS and onto on-prem, saving a projected $10 million.
Implemented AGPL MinIO Object Browser Simplified Console — MinIO has introduced a Trojan-horse PR innocently named “Implemented AGPL MinIO Object Browser Simplified Console” that removes almost all functionality from the object browser.
DORA’s Latest Research on AI Impact — Some interesting insights that AI remains a bit of a double-edged sword.
🦮 Tutorials / How-tos
GitHub Actions Security Guide | Wiz — Practical hardening tips for GitHub Actions. Worth a read if you're still running workflows with overly permissive tokens (you probably are).
Side-by-Side ECK Operator Upgrade Strategy | Mercari Engineering — A clever Kubernetes operator upgrade technique with minimal risk.
Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level at OpenAI | Pixelstech — OpenAI’s journey in pushing Postgres to its limits.
To Fix Platform Engineering, Build What Users Actually Want | The New Stack — Platform engineers continue to re-learn how to think like product teams.
📁 Interesting Projects
AI Native Dev Landscape — Nice site to present the ever-changing AI tooling landscape.
Tilt — Define your dev environment as code. For microservice apps on Kubernetes.
Terraform MCP Server — Interact with Terraform using an MCP server, built by HashiCorp.
Kubetail — Real-time logging dashboard for Kubernetes (browser/terminal).
📅 Events
PlatformCon 2025
📅 June 23–27, 2025
🌍 Hybrid: Virtual sessions and in-person "Live Days" in London and New York
Join over 40,000 platform engineers for a week of talks, panels, and workshops.DevOpsCon 2025
📍 London: May 12–16
📍 San Diego: May 19–23
📍 Berlin: June 16–20
📍 New York: Sept 29–Oct 2
Cloud platforms, microservices, Kubernetes, automation, and continuous delivery.Conf42 Platform Engineering 2025
📅 September 4, 2025
📍 Online
Talks on building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure platforms.
🎙️ Webinars
How Enterprises Can Achieve Success with Platform Engineering
📅 May 29, 2025 | 🕖 7:00 PM CESTPlatform Engineering Maturity Roadmap: Insights, Metrics, and Strategies
📅 June 5, 2025 | 🕖 7:00 PM CESTHow to Drive the Platform Engineering Revolution
📅 June 10, 2025 | 🕖 7:00 PM CESTContinuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
📅 June 18, 2025 | 🕔 9:00 AM PTPlatform Engineering Executive Roundtable (PlatformCon London)
📅 June 24, 2025 | 🕔 5:00 PM CESTSecure Software Delivery
📅 June 25, 2025 | 🕔 9:00 AM PT
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