It’s holiday season and for many of us, that means reading. I’ve already done a recommendation newsletter on books last year (should I do another?), but one thing you might not know is that our platform engineering community blog is the best it’s ever been. With the articles pouring in from our ever growing list of platform engineering ambassadors, the blog is undeniable the #1 spot for platform engineering knowledge.

Here are 5 recent articles you need to read:

1. Beyond algorithms: AI & platform engineering in the healthcare sector by Marc Mangus from Red Hat breaks down how AI can reshape Healthcare IF it has the internal developer platform to help it do it
2. Fighting compliance trolls killing platform engineering by Jon Skarpeteig from Signicat on how to embrace compliance, and enable automation to break through legacy “compliance troll” practices like rigid manual approvals and segregation of duties.
3. Domain-driven, AI-augmented: The next chapter of platform engineering by Ajay Chankramath from Platformetrics on exactly how to drive and deliver on a domain driven, AI supercharged IDP
4. How to become a platform engineer by Sam Barlien from the Platform Engineering community which zooms in on exactly what you need to understand to be a platform engineering in actuality, not just in your LinkedIn title
5. Why platform engineering will eat the world by Kaspar von Grûnberg of Humanitec and Canyon, the magnum opus of the community blog in the last year. There is no other article that defines better where we are, and where we’re going

Have your own favorite? Send it to me, and i’ll feature it here!