Department · Platform & Developer Experience

Platform Engineering

Internal developer platforms, toolchains, and the infrastructure that makes software teams move. The most political surface in the company, and why it matters.

Issue 01·May 2026·3 stories

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PLATFORM · Cover Story

From Biochemistry to Data Platform Engineering: Choosing the Hard Path on Purpose

From Biochemistry to Data Platform Engineering: A deliberate journey into building depth, complexity and the system powering modern Data and AI

By Feyisayo Ajiboye ·June 19, 2026

From Biochemistry to Data Platform Engineering: Choosing the Hard Path on Purpose

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Nobody Uses the Platform Nobody Fought For

The teams that never push back worry the platform lead most. Here is what an internal developer platform looks like when the engineers building it finally decide that disagreement is the feature, not the bug.

Eleanor Vance

PLATFORM

The System I Regret Building

It was elegant. It was fast. It solved exactly the problem we had in 2021. By 2023, it was the reason three engineers quit.

Maya Reyes

CLOUD

The Quiet Revolution Rewiring the Cloud

Inside the small group of women architects rebuilding the substrate of the modern internet, one region, one outage, one promotion at a time.

Renée Park

Platform & Developer Experience · Issue 01

"When the internal developer platform becomes political, you're doing it right."

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