Daniel Westgaard (@danielw)

Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.

A senior leaves and the code stays readable. What walks out is the cross-repo dependency map — and your bus factor, measured from commits, never counted it.

14 min readriftmap.hashnode.dev

Jun 17

A CVE just hit your base image. Your scanner won't tell you which repos to fix.

A scanner finds the vulnerable base image — not the repos you patch. Why base-image CVE remediation is a cross-repo source problem, and how to get the list.

11 min readriftmap.hashnode.dev

Jun 15

Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.

Your senior just resigned and understood how everything connects. Half of that knowledge was never tribal — it was declared in your manifests the whole time.

12 min readriftmap.hashnode.dev

Jun 14

GitLab Orbit maps your whole SDLC. It still can't tell you what an infrastructure change will break.

GitLab Orbit is a powerful symbol-and-SDLC graph — but it doesn't parse Terraform, Docker, or Helm. Here's the cross-repo blast-radius layer it can't reach.

11 min readriftmap.hashnode.dev

Jun 12

Is Backstage worth it? The real question is whether anyone will use it

The Backstage worth-it debate fixates on cost. Spotify's own head of Backstage says adoption is where it dies — here's how to predict your outcome first

10 min readriftmap.hashnode.dev

Jun 10

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Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.

A CVE just hit your base image. Your scanner won't tell you which repos to fix.

Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.

GitLab Orbit maps your whole SDLC. It still can't tell you what an infrastructure change will break.

Is Backstage worth it? The real question is whether anyone will use it

Daniel Westgaard

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Daniel Westgaard's blogs

Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.

A CVE just hit your base image. Your scanner won't tell you which repos to fix.

Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.

GitLab Orbit maps your whole SDLC. It still can't tell you what an infrastructure change will break.

Is Backstage worth it? The real question is whether anyone will use it

Daniel Westgaard

About

Available for

Daniel Westgaard's blogs

Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.

A CVE just hit your base image. Your scanner won't tell you which repos to fix.

Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.

GitLab Orbit maps your whole SDLC. It still can't tell you what an infrastructure change will break.

Is Backstage worth it? The real question is whether anyone will use it

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Daniel Westgaard

About

Available for

Daniel Westgaard's blogs

Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.

A CVE just hit your base image. Your scanner won't tell you which repos to fix.

Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.

GitLab Orbit maps your whole SDLC. It still can't tell you what an infrastructure change will break.

Is Backstage worth it? The real question is whether anyone will use it