2024
- Most IDPs go through three painful stages: no users, wrong abstractions, and the moment someone realizes it has to be operated as a product.
- SLO targets need to match observability maturity, not a generic standard. Sometimes leveling up observability is the precondition, not a parallel track.
2023
- The difference between a useful IDP and a costly one is rarely the technology. It's the discipline of building for actual users and admitting what's not working.
2022
- Application CI/CD is well-trodden. Infrastructure CI/CD is younger and stranger, and applying application patterns directly to it produces predictable failures.
- The shape of your IaC architecture is downstream of team size. Most pain comes from running yesterday's architecture at today's scale.