Mat (Matías) Caniglia
I run Clouditive, after more than 18 years in platform engineering, DevOps and SRE. These are the positions I'll defend in a design review.
Measure DORA per application, never blended.
One company-wide number hides the service that's getting worse. I also distrust a number that improves while its counterpart slips: more deploys alongside more failures is a trade, not progress. And most teams can't give you a change fail rate at all, because nobody records which deploy failed.
DORA metrics: how to measure and improve themA platform team that issues mandates is the old operations silo.
A platform is a product. Its job is to make the right way the easy way, so the people who build on it get the safe, fast path by default and don't have to ask for it. If they only use it because they were told to, you rebuilt the thing DevOps tried to remove.
Platform engineering vs DevOps vs SRE: who does whatAI doesn't fix broken workflows. It accelerates them.
So I fix the platform first, because speeding up a delivery path that already fails only makes it fail faster. Start with the gates. A gate earns its place only if it can say no.
Argo CD and Kargo: promoting releases safelyWhoever sells the project should be on the project.
At Clouditive I lead every project and interview every engineer myself. It keeps these positions honest, because I'm the one who has to live with them on the next project. I also host The Platform Radar, where they get tested against the week's engineering news.
Think I'm wrong about one of these? Tell me which.