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Building and Scaling a Platform with Project-as-a-Service

Ben Linders — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:17:00 GMT

When a platform started with total developer autonomy, teams felt overwhelmed and ended up solving the same problems in completely different ways. The company shifted to enablement over support, working together with teams intensively, and helping teams feel confident and capable, turning the right way into being the easiest way.

By Ben Linders

How a Culture of Data-Driven Conversations Can Support Platform Engineering

Ben Linders — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:54:00 GMT

To provide SRE as a service, a team built a center of excellence, introducing Federated SREs and roles like production manager and technical tribe lead. They created a culture of data-driven conversations where SLOs and SLAs were democratised. Surviving growing cognitive load meant continuously simplifying architecture and embedding sovereignty and resilience into platform design decisions.

By Ben Linders

Inside Google’s System for Coordinated A/B Testing across its Global Service Fleet

Leela Kumili — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:54:00 GMT

Google has shared details of its fleet wide large scale A/B experimentation system designed to standardize experiment assignment, exposure logging, and configuration propagation across distributed services. The approach enables consistent measurement across products, reduces experiment conflicts, and improves reliability of data driven decision making at scale.

By Leela Kumili