Board for Platform Coffee - 2025-09-24 - General Discussion

[platform-coffee]

# Platform Coffee - 2025-09-24

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## Topics (5 Notes)

- AI-Powered Platform Engineering or PE for AI Agents?
- Building a platform team / platform champions
- Roundup of Favorite Platform Tools
- Any good alternatives to ansible for host configuration? It seems so brittle!
- What is DevOps? What is Platform Engineering?

## Done (9 Notes)

- How has your MCP adoption been? Is it effective? Where is the pain?
    - any fun mcp agents?github announced mcp registry the other day, things will get wild again (remember helm charts?)https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/meet-the-github-mcp-registry-the-fastest-way-to-discover-mcp-servers/
- App scaffolding?  (e.g. standardize on Helm chart, CDK8s, or something else?)
- Are "workflows" a platform offering / capability? WaaS?  
    - Are using Airflow? If so, what are you using it instead of?  
- Managing observability costs  
    - What are people using for observability tools? What is provided by the platform?
- Any python frameworks for data visualiation, I'm leaning towards steamlit?
- Access management using K8s CRDs and custom controller.  

## Links/Info (7 Notes)

- gemini cli and memory file?
- https://github.com/lra/mackup
- observability alternatives
https://bitdrift.io/
or
honeycomb.io
 
- "Turn the ship around"
 "Leadership is language" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Marquet
- https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/
2026 link + CFP coming soon: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/events/cloud-native-days
- "Team of Teams" https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317066/team-of-teams-by-general-stanley-mcchrystal-tantum-collins-david-silverman-and-chris-fussell/
- "Internet of AI Agents"  https://agntcy.org/

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