APAlex Parra (Parraletz)inparraletz.dev·Mar 26 · 6 min readKubernetes Isn't Outdated. It's Evolving. And So Should You.There's a narrative I keep hearing in tech communities across LATAM and beyond: "Kubernetes is too complex now. It had its moment." I think that narrative confuses two very different things: the accid00
APAlex Parra (Parraletz)inparraletz.dev·Mar 24 · 6 min readThe Platform Is the ArchitectureThe Platform Is the Architecture There's a distinction that comes up a lot in platform engineering conversations, and it's worth making explicit. There's a difference between a team that operates infrastructure and a team that designs a platform. Bot...00
APAlex Parra (Parraletz)inparraletz.dev·Mar 20 · 6 min readYour Deployment Strategy Shouldn't Live in Your PipelineYour Deployment Strategy Shouldn't Live in Your Pipeline Here's a situation most platform teams have been in. A team wants to do a canary deployment. So they modify the pipeline. They add a step that deploys to 10% of traffic, waits, checks some metr...00
APAlex Parra (Parraletz)inparraletz.dev·Mar 16 · 6 min readThe Glue Is the PlatformThe Glue Is the Platform Here's something that doesn't show up in architecture diagrams. You have Kubernetes. You have Terraform. You have GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Datadog, Vault, and a developer portal. Each of those tools is well-documented, widely ...29M
APAlex Parra (Parraletz)inparraletz.dev·Mar 13 · 6 min readA Git Commit Is Not Just a Change. It's a Command.A Git Commit Is Not Just a Change. It's a Command. Here's a scenario that plays out in a lot of platform teams. Your CI/CD pipeline runs kubectl apply as a job step. It exits zero. The pipeline goes green. Deployment successful — or so the dashboard ...01K
