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PL Platform Engineering Labs · Platform Engineering Labs

formae now comes with k8s, Helm and .tfvars support, and a Public Hub for builders

Another 3 months have passed since our last major release. Time flies when you keep shipping huge releases.

May 13, 2026 · 3 min read · 112 claps #devops #iac #platform-engineering

formae now comes with k8s, Helm and .tfvars support, and a Public Hub for builders

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PA Pavlo Baron · Platform Engineering Labs

Infrastructure: abstractions for developers, runtime controls for operators

How successful platform teams tailor infrastructure to roles and use cases.

Mar 31, 2026 · 5 min read · 26 claps #devops #platform-engineering #infrastructure-as-code

Infrastructure: abstractions for developers, runtime controls for operators

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ZA Zachary Schneider · Platform Engineering Labs

Orbital Package System (OPS): An Introduction

Remember when we at Platform Engineering Labs said we give platform engineers the tools they deserve to eliminate the toil of the practice…

May 28, 2026 · 2 min read · 25 claps #devops #platform-engineering #continuous-delivery

Orbital Package System (OPS): An Introduction

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PA Pavlo Baron · Platform Engineering Labs

Unf***ing IaC for humans, and AI agents

Part 5: IaC language philosophy is a waste of time

Jun 03, 2026 · 5 min read · 14 claps #formae #infrastructure-as-code #devops

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JE Jeroen Soeters · Platform Engineering Labs

Targets, resources, resolvables and stacks: the formae infrastructure graph explained

formae is built from a small set of composable concepts, and their power is in how they combine. The goal of this article is to make it…

Jun 10, 2026 · 10 min read · 11 claps #infrastructure-as-code #devops #platform-engineering

Targets, resources, resolvables and stacks: the formae infrastructure graph explained

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JE Jeroen Soeters · Platform Engineering Labs

Go plugins, actors, and schema evolution: inside formae’s plugin SDK

Like most infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools, formae has a plugin architecture. The formae agent knows how to schedule, queue, order…

Jun 01, 2026 · 9 min read · 11 claps #golang #iac #ergo

Go plugins, actors, and schema evolution: inside formae’s plugin SDK

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PA Pavlo Baron · Platform Engineering Labs

Your operational complexity has to die

Otherwise, you will remain the execution layer between AI and production

Jul 13, 2026 · 3 min read · 10 claps #devops #ai #gitops

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PA Pavlo Baron · Platform Engineering Labs

Your golden path is a lie unless the model changes, and you know it

A polished path on top of fragmented change is not a platform — it is theater

Jul 02, 2026 · 3 min read · 10 claps #platform-engineering #formae #infrastructure-as-code

Your golden path is a lie unless the model changes, and you know it

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PA Pavlo Baron · Platform Engineering Labs

AI agent wiped a production database? That’s exactly how it’s supposed to work

AI agents don’t introduce new failure modes — they execute the ones already built into your systems

May 04, 2026 · 4 min read · 10 claps #devops #platform-engineering #sre

AI agent wiped a production database? That’s exactly how it’s supposed to work

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NI Nicholas Browdues · Platform Engineering Labs

A Decade in the State File

On October 28, 2014, someone opened GitHub Issue #516 on the Terraform repository. The request was simple: stop writing secrets in…

Jun 02, 2026 · 6 min read · 10 claps #terraform #devops #infrastructure-as-code

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PA Pavlo Baron · Platform Engineering Labs

DevOps Burnout Has a Tooling Problem

And why absorbing complexity should not be mistaken for expertise

Jun 29, 2026 · 3 min read · 10 claps #devops #sre #infrastructure-as-code

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NI Nico · Platform Engineering Labs

Extending Pkl To Enable formae Multi-Cloud Code Generation

Build formae plugins with confidence — we take care of all complexity.

Feb 05, 2026 · 3 min read · 1 claps #infrastructure-as-code #formae #platform-engineering

Extending Pkl To Enable formae Multi-Cloud Code Generation

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NI Nicholas Browdues · Platform Engineering Labs

The 10,000 Kicks Problem

The value of taking your time in a world obsessed with speed

Mar 30, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #devops #platform-engineering #generative-ai

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NI Nicholas Browdues · Platform Engineering Labs

Your Deployment Pipeline Has a Boundary Problem

If you’ve ever inherited a deploy pipeline you know the parts that quietly worry you: the awk line pulling a database endpoint out of CLI…

May 05, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #devops #platform-engineering #gitops