Platform engineering

Oct 20, 2026

A Bank Built Its Own Coding Agent. It Took Off — Felipe Felisola Caso & Francesco Galletta, Monzo

Felipe Felisola Caso and Francesco Galletta from Monzo explain how an internal Slack agent grew from a viral emoji trigger into a teammate authoring over 10% of merged PRs and running more than 1,800 tasks a day. They attribute its speed to existing platform capabilities, an MCP gateway, a sandboxed orchestration system suited to a regulated bank, and an agent designed as a composable building block for incidents, on-call data quality and non-engineer contributions.

Oct 09, 2026

AI Writes More PRs. Who Validates Them? — Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Sonar

Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, co-founder of Gitar (now part of Sonar), explains why AI-driven growth in PR volume and size turns CI and code review into a bottleneck, and presents agentic validation as the way out: automated review, CI failure analysis, autofix, and auto-merge, built up step by step as trust grows, combined with traditional program analysis in SonarQube.

Sep 23, 2026

Thinking in Platforms • Kasper von Grünberg & Luca Galante • GOTO 2026

Kaspar von Grünberg and Luca Galante discuss their book "Thinking in Platforms," tracing platform engineering's origins from addressing key person dependencies to its critical role as an "operating model" for AI-first organizations. They highlight how AI agents necessitate standardized, productized internal platforms for effective deployment, emphasizing that platform efforts often fail due to social rather than technical challenges.

Aug 26, 2026

Platform Engineering for Developers, Architects & the Rest of Us • Daniel Bryant • GOTO 2025

Daniel Bryant discusses platform engineering for software developers and architects, emphasizing treating platforms as internal products with developers as customers. He outlines a three-layered architecture, the evolution from monolithic systems to microservices, and the importance of 'golden bricks' over 'golden paths' for composability. Key takeaways include API-first design, minimizing cognitive load, avoiding leaky abstractions, and measuring success through frameworks like DORA and DevEx to achieve speed, safety, and scale.

Jul 02, 2026

The Platform Engineer’s Handbook • Ajay Chankramath & Kaspar von Grünberg • GOTO 2026

This conversation with Ajay Chankramath, author of 'The Platform Engineer’s Handbook,' delves into why practical, code-first guidance is essential for building Internal Developer Platforms. He argues that developer adoption failures stem from a "product discipline gap," not a technology one, emphasizing developer experience as a first-class outcome. The discussion covers the book's arc from foundations to enterprise-grade features and its focus on 100% open-source, vendor-agnostic tooling. Crucially, it highlights how agentic AI raises the stakes for platform engineering, requiring new IDP layers for agent context, memory, and guardrails, asserting that these must be built, owned, and operated internally for safe and productive AI adoption.

Jun 29, 2026

Platforms: Build Abstractions, not Illusions • Gregor Hohpe • GOTO 2025

Gregor Hohpe explains the critical role of platforms in managing the growing cognitive load on developers due to complex distributed systems. He contrasts platforms, driven by "economies of speed" and fostering innovation through diversity, with traditional IT services and oversimplified abstractions that create dangerous illusions. Hohpe emphasizes building platforms that provide intuitive, domain-specific abstractions to solve real business problems, rather than just repackaging existing cloud services.