Platform Engineering Playbook Podcast

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The Platform Engineering Playbook Podcast is where AI meets open-source infrastructure knowledge—and you're part of the editorial process. Every episode is researched, scripted, and produced with AI, then reviewed by the community and published on GitHub for anyone to improve. Facing tool sprawl across 130+ platforms? Justifying PaaS costs to your CFO? Navigating the Shadow AI crisis hitting 85% of organizations? We tackle the messy realities of platform engineering that most content avoids, delivering data-backed insights and decision frameworks you can use Monday morning. Built for senior engineers, SREs, and DevOps practitioners with 5+ years in production, we dissect cloud economics, AI governance, infrastructure trade-offs, and career strategy—with the receipts to back it up. Think we got something wrong? Have better data? Open a pull request at platformengineeringplaybook.com. This is infrastructure podcasting as a living document, where the community keeps us honest and the content gets better with every contribution. Read the playbook at https://platformengineeringplaybook.com

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    AWS Graviton5: 192 Cores, 5x Cache - ARM Takes Over the Data Center

    AWS doubled the core count on their flagship ARM processors with Graviton5—192 cores in a single socket, 5x L3 cache (180MB), and 3nm fabrication. We go deep on ARM vs x86 architecture, cache hierarchy latencies, NUMA elimination benefits, formal verification security proofs, and a complete migration framework with multi-arch CI/CD patterns. With 98% of top EC2 customers already on Graviton, the ARM tipping point is now. Duration: ~22 minutes This episode covers: - 192-core single socket design eliminating NUMA overhead - 180MB L3 cache enabling database working sets to fit entirely in cache - Nitro Isolation Engine with formal verification (mathematical security proofs) - Real customer results from Atlassian, Honeycomb, and SAP - 4-question framework for evaluating ARM migration - 5-point action plan for platform teams - Regional availability considerations News segment: State of Platform Engineering 2026 report shows platform engineering practices "shifting down" to mid-market companies. Episode page with full transcript and resources: https://platformengineering.org/podcasts/00079-aws-graviton5-arm-data-center

    23 Min.

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    Can OpenTelemetry Save Observability in 2026?

    OpenTelemetry has won the instrumentation wars with 95% adoption predicted for 2026. But winning data collection doesn't solve observability's real problems: spiraling costs, signal-to-noise ratios declining, and too much distance between seeing a problem and fixing it. In this episode, we break down: • Netflix's evolution to high-cardinality analytics processing 1M+ spans per episode • The cost-control chokepoint that OTel enables for telemetry optimization • Why 40% of organizations are targeting autonomous remediation by end of 2026 • How SLOs are becoming business conversations, not just engineering metrics Plus news on GitHub Actions 39% pricing reduction and Jaeger v2.14.0 legacy removal. Key takeaways: → OTel adoption is near-universal, but 43% haven't seen cost savings → Netflix treats observability as data engineering with Flink pipelines → AI agents becoming first-class consumers of observability data → Platform engineers becoming translators between telemetry and business impact Full transcript and resources: https://platformengineering.playbook.com/docs/podcasts/00078-observability-opentelemetry-2026

    17 Min.

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    When Serverless Fails: Unkey's 6x Performance Migration to Containers

    Why did an API key management platform abandon edge serverless for stateful containers? Unkey hit 30ms p99 cache latency when they needed sub-10ms—so they rebuilt everything on AWS Fargate. This episode covers the technical decision-making framework for choosing between serverless and containers, plus a deep dive into Kubernetes 1.35's new structured z-pages for debugging. In This Episode: - The serverless constraint: stateless = network request for every cache read - Unkey's complexity tax: Workers, Durable Objects, Queues, custom proxies - The container solution: Fargate + Global Accelerator = 6x performance - Decision framework: latency targets, data hotness, complexity budget - K8s 1.35 z-pages: JSON structured responses for compliance automation Key Statistics: - 30ms p99 cache latency before migration (target: 10ms) - 6x performance improvement after moving to containers - Self-hosting unlocked as unexpected bonus New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe to stay current on platform engineering. Links: Full show notes: https://platformengineeringplaybook.com/podcasts/00077-unkey-serverless-containers-migration Contribute: Open a PR on GitHub

    19 Min.

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    From Alert Fatigue to Signal-Driven Ops: The Observability Shift

    Why do 73% of organizations experience outages from alerts they ignored? This episode breaks down the technical shift from reactive thresholds to SLO-driven observability. Learn multi-window burn-rate alerting patterns, AIOps implementations that actually work, and an 8-week migration path to cut alert noise by 80%. In This Episode: - The alert fatigue paradox: 2000+ weekly alerts with only 3% actionable - Technical causes: static thresholds, compound rule blind spots, alert storms - SLO-driven observability: error budgets and multi-window burn-rate alerting - AIOps patterns that work: anomaly detection, event correlation, RCA acceleration - Practical 8-week migration path from threshold alerts to signal-driven ops Key Statistics: - 73% of organizations experience outages from ignored alerts (Splunk 2025) - Teams receive 2000+ alerts weekly, only 3% need immediate action - 27% of alerts in mid-size companies are simply ignored - 80% reduction in alert noise achievable with proper SLO-based design - $5,600/minute cost of unplanned downtime New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe to stay current on platform engineering. Links: Full show notes: https://platformengineeringplaybook.com/podcasts/00076-alert-fatigue-signal-driven-observability Contribute: Open a PR on GitHub

    21 Min.

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    Security Ops Specialty: The Underrated Skill Every Platform Engineer Needs in 2026

    Platform engineers who understand security operations—secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation—are commanding premium salaries in 2026. This episode breaks down the security ops specialty: what it includes, why organizations are desperate for it, and how to build these skills alongside your existing platform engineering expertise. In this episode: • Security ops specialty encompasses secrets management, vulnerability scanning, policy-as-code, and compliance automation • Organizations are struggling to find platform engineers with security depth—creating a supply-demand gap • The 2025 State of Secrets report shows 70% of organizations experienced a secrets-related incident • Key tools include HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, OPA/Gatekeeper, Falco, and SOPS • Building security skills alongside platform engineering creates a rare and valuable combination Perfect for senior platform engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers looking to level up their platform engineering skills. New episodes every week. Subscribe wherever you listen to stay current on platform engineering. Episode URL: https://platformengineering.org/podcasts/00075-security-ops-specialty-platform-engineers Duration: 19:05 Host: Alex and Jordan Category: Technology Subcategory: Software How-To Keywords: security ops, platform engineering, secrets management, HashiCorp Vault, vulnerability scanning, Trivy, OPA, Gatekeeper, Falco, compliance automation, DevSecOps, shift-left security, policy-as-code, SOPS, supply chain security

    19 Min.

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    Agentic AI Foundation - MCP and the Future of AI-Native Platform Engineering

    The Linux Foundation announced the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) on December 9, 2025, bringing together AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Block, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg. This episode breaks down MCP (Model Context Protocol) - the "HTTP for AI" with 97M+ monthly downloads. 📰 NEWS: Docker hardened images now free, MongoBleed CVE patch alert, Cloudflare "Fail Small" resilience plan, DORA metrics with Process Behavior Charts 🎯 Key Topics: • What AAIF and MCP mean for platform teams • MCP architecture: Hosts, Clients, and Servers • The N×M to N+M integration simplification • Security: OAuth flows, permission scopes, audit logging • Practical next steps for platform engineers 📊 Key Stats: • 97M+ monthly MCP SDK downloads • 10,000+ public MCP servers • 8 platinum members including all major AI/cloud players 🔗 Show notes: https://platformengineering.org/podcasts/00074-agentic-ai-foundation-mcp-platform-engineers #PlatformEngineering #MCP #AgenticAI #AAIF #DevOps #AI #LinuxFoundation

    15 Min.

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    FinOps 2026 for Platform Engineers: The Complete Skills Guide

    FinOps is becoming an essential skill for platform engineers in 2026. This episode provides a complete guide to the skills, certifications, and tools you need to add cloud cost management to your platform engineering toolkit. 📰 News Segment: • GPG.fail documents 14 critical GnuPG vulnerabilities - check your signing tools • MongoBleed CVE-2025-14847: Critical MongoDB exploit - patch immediately • The Dangers of SSL Certificates: Catastrophic failure modes in automation • Google Multi-Cluster Orchestrator: Cross-region K8s management (KubeCon 2025) • GPG cleartext signature parsing vulnerabilities found 💡 Key Takeaways: • Platform teams own 70%+ of cloud spending decisions • FinOps + Platform Engineering = $175K+ compound skill premium • Senior FinOps Engineers average $150K, top earners reach $250K • 76% of organizations are increasing FinOps investment • New certifications: FinOps for AI (March 2026), FinOps for Containers 🎯 Skills Covered: • Tier 1: Cloud billing data, K8s cost allocation, unit economics • Tier 2: FOCUS specification v1.3, OpenCost/Kubecost, showback/chargeback • Tier 3: Automated rightsizing, committed use discounts, AI workload optimization 🔗 Resources: • FinOps Foundation: finops.org • OpenCost (CNCF): opencost.io • FOCUS Specification: focus.finops.org • Episode page: platformengineering.org/podcasts/00073-finops-2026-platform-engineers-guide #FinOps #PlatformEngineering #CloudCost #Kubernetes #DevOps #CNCF #OpenCost

    17 Min.

  8. 28.12.2025

    Platform Engineering Salary Report 2026: Skills That Pay

    Platform engineers are commanding $172K-$207K in 2026, a 13-27% premium over DevOps roles. This episode breaks down salary benchmarks from Dice, Motion Recruitment, and Levels.fyi, revealing which skills are S-tier ($200K+) and which are table stakes. We cover: - Platform Engineer vs DevOps salary gap (13-27% premium) - S-tier skills: LLM/GenAI ($195K-$312K), Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, MLOps - A-tier skills: Kubernetes + CKA, Go/Golang, FinOps, OpenTelemetry - Entry-level hiring crisis (-25% to -50% at major tech) - Geographic salary shifts: Atlanta +13.9%, Silicon Valley -7.3% - Top certification ROI: CKA, CNPE, FinOps Practitioner Listen for actionable recommendations on which skills to prioritize in 2026 based on your current career level. Episode page: https://platformengineering.org/podcasts/00072-platform-engineering-salary-skills-2026

    17 Min.
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The Platform Engineering Playbook Podcast is where AI meets open-source infrastructure knowledge—and you're part of the editorial process. Every episode is researched, scripted, and produced with AI, then reviewed by the community and published on GitHub for anyone to improve. Facing tool sprawl across 130+ platforms? Justifying PaaS costs to your CFO? Navigating the Shadow AI crisis hitting 85% of organizations? We tackle the messy realities of platform engineering that most content avoids, delivering data-backed insights and decision frameworks you can use Monday morning. Built for senior engineers, SREs, and DevOps practitioners with 5+ years in production, we dissect cloud economics, AI governance, infrastructure trade-offs, and career strategy—with the receipts to back it up. Think we got something wrong? Have better data? Open a pull request at platformengineeringplaybook.com. This is infrastructure podcasting as a living document, where the community keeps us honest and the content gets better with every contribution. Read the playbook at https://platformengineeringplaybook.com

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