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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

Google Cloud Suspends Railway's Production Account, Causing Eight-Hour Platform-Wide Outage

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:03:00 GMT

Google Cloud's automated systems suspended Railway's production account without notice, triggering an eight-hour platform-wide outage affecting 3 million users. The cascade took down workloads across all providers including AWS and bare metal because Railway's control plane was hosted on GCP. Railway is demoting GCP to backup-only status.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers