InfoQ - Culture & Methods

Developing and Deploying a Platform that the Business Understands and Developers Actually Want

Ben Linders — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:09:00 GMT

A lot of platform teams face a problem: they build a lot of really cool stuff, and then their developers don't use it. Be visible to management, talk to stakeholders and listen to their problems, make your value measurable with metrics like DORA, create narratives, and show the hidden pain to make it personal: these are lessons that Lucas Hornung and Christian Matthaei presented.

By Ben Linders

Presentation: Road to Compliance: Will Your Internal Users Hate Your Platform Team?

Davide de Paolis — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:20:00 GMT

Davide de Paolis discusses the realities of rolling out cloud infrastructure compliance without fracturing developer relations. Drawing from a real-world platform team reboot at Sevdesk, he explains how to implement "minimum viable governance" on AWS, utilize event-driven Slack alerting to automate policy feedback, and shift from rigid enforcement to high-empathy, data-driven collaboration.

By Davide de Paolis

Podcast: Formal Methods for Every Engineer in an AI-Powered Future

Gabriela Moreira — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Gabriela Moreira about making formal methods accessible through the Quint specification language, how AI is dramatically lowering the barrier to entry for formal specification and model-based testing, and why defining correct system behaviour remains essential human work in an AI-driven world.

By Gabriela Moreira

How Open Source Enables Collaboration in Creating a Platform

Ben Linders — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:53:00 GMT

A platform is a collaboration system: platform teams depend on application teams, and both need shared standards. Engineers trust a platform through its predictable behavior, not its features. Being an engineer is about problem-solving and being passionate about it. And being an engineer means sharing your passion for problem-solving.

By Ben Linders

Airbnb Shares Architecture behind Sitar-Agent Dynamic Configuration Sidecar for Kubernetes Services

Leela Kumili — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:25:00 GMT

Airbnb engineers detailed Sitar-agent, a Kubernetes sidecar for dynamic configuration delivery across tens of thousands of pods, processing updates several times per minute. The system was redesigned with Java, Amazon S3 snapshot bootstrapping, and a migration from Sparkey to SQLite to improve reliability, startup performance, and configuration availability at scale.

By Leela Kumili