InfoQ - Platform Engineering

Presentation: Move Fast, Don’t Break Trust: Shipping Constantly with Humans and Beyond

Suhail Patel — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Suhail Patel discusses how Monzo structures its software engineering organization and technical stack to ship safely hundreds of times a day. He shares insights into opinionated microservice abstractions, tenancy-based staging, static analysis checks, continuous profiling, demonstrating how a strong internal platform enables engineers and LLMs to iterate rapidly without sacrificing reliability.

By Suhail Patel

Mini book: Evolutionary Architecture in Practice

InfoQ — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:30:00 GMT

Discover how to keep software evolvable as systems, technology, and teams shift. This edition explores agentic fitness functions for semantic drift, treating human comprehension as a core design metric, cross-cloud guardrails for regional autonomy, and aligning technical boundaries with Conway’s Law. Move beyond static diagrams to continuous feedback systems that keep change safe and intentional.

By InfoQ

Backstage 1.55 Adds Scaffolder Task Recovery and Removes Deprecated Catalog APIs

Mark Silvester — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Backstage 1.55 adds opt-in recovery for Software Template tasks, resuming crashed or timed-out runs from the last completed step. The release also carries breaking changes to the catalog, search and TechDocs, so teams should review their configuration before upgrading to the current 1.55.3 patch.

By Mark Silvester