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Achieving Compliance as a Platform Engineering Team by Helping Developers

Ben Linders — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:42:00 GMT

When a new platform team set out to implement their roadmap through forced workflows with poor documentation, developer experience declined. Success came from simplifying governance, prioritizing what mattered, and rolling out compliance incrementally through prevention, detection, and communication. Empathy, focus, and shared purpose drove successful adoption.

By Ben Linders

QCon AI Boston: Production AI Moves beyond Prompts to Platforms, Harnesses, and Evals

Tatiana Fesenko — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

QCon AI Boston 2026 focused on the operational challenges of deploying AI agents, emphasizing the need for robust production infrastructure. Key themes included improving context management, ensuring security through a "harness" around agents, and adopting a comprehensive engineering model for AI.

By Tatiana Fesenko

Developing and Deploying a Platform that the Business Understands and Developers Actually Want

Ben Linders — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:09:00 GMT

A lot of platform teams face a problem: they build a lot of really cool stuff, and then their developers don't use it. Be visible to management, talk to stakeholders and listen to their problems, make your value measurable with metrics like DORA, create narratives, and show the hidden pain to make it personal: these are lessons that Lucas Hornung and Christian Matthaei presented.

By Ben Linders