The Problem Most engineers deploy to Kubernetes by clicking buttons in a UI. I built Archnet — a fully automated Internal Developer Platform What is an Internal Developer Platform? An IDP is the infrastructure layer that sits between your code How code gets deployed How secrets are managed How the system monitors itself How failures get detected and fixed Most companies pay Humanitec or Backsta
We had ArgoCD running perfectly. Every deployment was reconciled from Git. Drift detection worked. Rollbacks were one-click. Our GitOps setup was clean. Developers still couldn't provision a staging environment without pinging the platform team. That gap — between "GitOps in place" and "developers can actually self-serve" — is where most platform engineering teams get stuck. GitOps solves a real p
If you’ve been around data engineering long enough, you’ve probably heard these terms thrown around in meetings: “Just dump it in the data lake” “We’ll expose it through the warehouse” “That goes into the mart” “We’re moving to a lakehouse architecture” And honestly… it can sound like four different ways of saying the same thing. They’re not. Each one solves a slightly different problem in the dat