Platform Engineering

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, container automation, and developer platform tooling.

7 notes in this category.

4 Sept 2026Platform Engineering10 min read

Zero-downtime database migrations with GitHub Actions

Zero-downtime, rollback-safe database migrations with GitHub Actions. Expand, drain, contract: the schema, queue, and config changes a digest rollback cannot undo.

29 Aug 2026Platform Engineering11 min read

CI/CD standardisation across application teams

Reusable GitHub Actions workflows, Environment-scoped OIDC, and digest promotion so several teams ship without each inventing a private release path.

21 Aug 2026Platform Engineering8 min read

Terraform module patterns for multi-environment cloud estates

Reusable Terraform module boundaries, environment composition, state management, and hand-off patterns for repeatable cloud platforms.

30 May 2018Platform Engineering3 min read

Fixing Chef cluster issues

Recover a high-availability Chef cluster when Elasticsearch shard allocation or service health issues block normal Chef Server operation.

22 May 2018Platform Engineering2 min read

Configuring UTF-8 collation for MySQL or MariaDB on Docker

Configure MySQL or MariaDB character sets and collations in Docker, verify Unicode storage, and understand durability tradeoffs.

19 Jun 2015Platform Engineering3 min read

Marketing vanity URLs

Create trackable vanity URLs for print, QR, and email campaigns with Apache redirects, UTM parameters, and maintainable campaign rules.

13 Feb 2014Platform Engineering3 min read

Git tips and tricks

Practical Git commands for rewriting authors, recovering work, inspecting history, bisecting bugs, and keeping repositories maintainable.

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