Everyone is building agents, harnesses, and loops. Development is faster than ever. Yet the big, integrated, cross-team work seems to be getting harder, not easier. www.chieftherapyofficer.co.uk/p/were-rebui...

We're rebuilding the DevOps mess, one agent at a time

Autonomy for every team means paralysis for the enterprise

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We spent years convincing managers that developer flow was highly important, but now devs running multiple agents and worrying if they're achieving enough while they sleep. What went wrong? www.chieftherapyofficer.co.uk/p/what-ever-...

What ever happened to going with the flow?

Why did we spend a decade protecting developers from distraction?

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I still hear people talking about 10x developers ... but where's the 10x value? In this 15 min video for #platformcon26, I share what I've seen work and not work in early adopting orgs. And, embarrassingly , the data didn't lead where I thought it would! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD3G...

Turning 10x developers into 10x value - Bryan Ross | PlatformCon 2026

The 10x developer is here, but do they deliver 10x value? More code means more testing, more bugs, and more security vulnerabilities. Learn how the UK's biggest companies are using their platforms to…

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The free lunch is over! I've put the top five inference cost mitigations I've seen work with customers into a short 15 minute video for #platformcon26. Go give it a watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqcw...

The AI free lunch is over: Model economics for platform engineers - Bryan Ross | PlatformCon 2026

The power of AI is unarguable. We've been eating at the AI buffet, but the free lunch is over. Now every dish has a price, and your developers don't have the menu! Your platform team can get ahead of…

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With all the excitement of Fable being banned, I thought I'd share some of my own experiences of agentic red teaming. We're cooked. We need to change our approach to secure software delivery. open.substack.com/pub/bryanros...

The Asymmetric War

Are we cooked, chat?

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Is anyone else entirely fed up with hearing "You're right to push back — I was wrong . . . " from their agent after an hour or so disappearing down a hallucinated rabbit hole? 🕳️🐇

Are you doing okay? It feels pretty exhausting to work in the IT industry right now, and I think I know why. www.chieftherapyofficer.co.uk/p/the-identi...

The Identity Crisis AI Didn't Warn You About

It feels pretty exhausting to work in the IT industry right now, and I think I know why.

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Do you wish teams could agree on a set of central tools and golden path? In this months article, I talk about how I've helped organisations Find common ground before common tools. www.chieftherapyofficer.co.uk/p/find-commo...

Find common ground, not common tools

A practical guide to aligning teams around common practices and golden paths

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After three years of joking about it, the new brand is officially live! chieftherapyofficer.co.uk Join me each month to hear real stories from enterprise IT teams across industries that want to bridge the gap between technology and business value.

Chief Therapy Officer | Bryan Ross | Substack

Bridging the gap between technical and business stakeholders through compelling storytelling and real-world examples. Talks about #kubernetes, #leadership, #appmodernization, #platformengineering,…

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"4 hours of usage gone in 3 prompts" ... The AI free lunch is over, and platform teams are about to inherit the bill! The Chief Therapy Officer is back for 2026. newsletter.bryanross.me/p/the-ai-fre...

The AI Free Lunch is Over

Why Platform Teams Need to Prepare for the Cost Reckoning

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@sugaroverflow.com has done an awesome job on The Developer Show and I'm thrilled to see @kelseyhightower.com joining TODAY! I want to hear where the industry is heading and what @gitlab.com is doing to bring agentic AI to developers in a more thoughtful way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cokX...

Interview with Kelsey Hightower and the GitLab 18.5 Release

YouTube video by GitLab

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It was awesome to be part of the The Making of Flux documentary to talk about the impact of GitOps, the role CD plays in large organisations, and a glimpse of the future in how AI might change the landscape. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q69s...

The Making of Flux: The Future, with Bryan Ross, William Rizzo, Shaun O'Meara, and Jane Yan | KubeFM

Join the Flux maintainers and community at FluxCon, November 11th in Atlanta—register here https://ku.bz/L843kg0CK === In this closing episode, Bryan Ross (Field CTO at GitLab), Jane Yan (Principal…

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Are you building a Golden Path or a Golden Cage? Platform mandates drive workarounds underground. One size doesn't fit all, but well-designed guardrails with composable platform features can fit everyone. Learn how to go from 17% to 86% adoption in 6 months. newsletter.bryanross.me/p/golden-pat...

Golden Paths: One Size Does Not Fit All

How to build a Golden Path, rather than a Golden Cage

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I moved from customer to vendor a few years ago - here's what platform teams can learn from sales when promoting their services internally. newsletter.bryanross.me/p/five-sales...

Five sales techniques that double platform adoption

Why platform engineers should spend 85% of their time talking, not building

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This month, as Chief Therapy Officer, I take a look at the hidden cost of offering your platforms for free. I give real world examples of those that hit crisis point and others that saved millions by implementing simple showback mechanisms. newsletter.bryanross.me/p/the-hidden...

The Hidden Cost of "Free" Platform Services

Creating a cost-conscious culture in Platform Engineering

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Two weeks. No laptop. No calls. No Slack. Just a sailing boat, the Finnish coastline, the Åland Islands, and Sweden’s archipelago. When we don't step away, we risk making smaller and smaller decisions inside the same narrow headspace. This is your sign to fully unplug for a couple of weeks! ⛵️

Wondering what really comes next in AI? In this article, we look at what past disruptive technologies can teach us about what’s coming next (beyond the hype!) newsletter.bryanross.me/p/ai-disrupt...

AI Disruption Déjà Vu

What The Past Tells Us About the Future of AI

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The hard problems in tech aren't technical. My job is about listening, interpreting and translating with curiosity and empathy. This is the monthly topic for the Platforms Community content club, so I'm sharing the story of when this lesson first sunk in. newsletter.bryanross.me/p/the-hard-p...

The Hard Problems in Tech Aren't Technical

What if the Minimum Viable Platform is just Email and Empathy?

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Well, looky here! The New Stack were kind enough to publish my article on the importance of product teams over technologies. I'd love to hear what you think! thenewstack.io/accelerating...

Accelerating Developer Velocity With Effective Platform Teams

A look at three key considerations for leaders building strong platform teams.

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"I asked ChatGPT" well I asked my cat's anus looks like we both did our research

After pecking at this article on trains and planes over the past few weeks, I've finally published my thoughts on the different challenges you face when your platform becomes mature. newsletter.bryanross.me/p/beyond-lau...

Beyond Launch

Platform Engineering's Real Test

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Who's going to be joining at the AWS GenAI Security Symposium in a few weeks? 📍Kings Place, London 🗓️ 22nd May 2025 | 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM 👉 Register now! www.aws-partner-events.com/gen-ai-secur...

The most exciting thing about MCP is that we can start talking about ChatOps again! 😍

This. I’ve had enough “once in a generation” events thank you very much.

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Honestly, me too.

Is your company guilty of metrics misuse? Have DORA metrics been weaponised to compare the productivity of teams or individuals? Maybe you should send them my latest article about Metrics That Matter! 📈

Metrics That Matter

Beyond DORA: Meaningful Measurement for Platform Teams

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My contribution to ✨CNCF Content Club✨ is now live! It's not too late to join in - just publish your own thoughts about Team Topologies in the Real World, leave me a comment, and I'll ask the other contributors to help boost on their social media.

Team Topologies in the Real World

This month, some fellow CNCF working group colleagues will be sharing their thoughts on the topic of Team Topologies.

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This month on my Chief Therapy Officer newsletter, I lay out the basics of creating an AI strategy for your platform engineering initiative. I take a look behind the hype and dive into why I think there's more to AI than code generation. Let me know what you think!

AI Strategy for Platform Engineering in 2025

The Unsexy Truth About AI Success in DevSecOps

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"we in tech have a tendency to see every challenge through the lens of technology, searching for technical solutions to what are often fundamentally human problems. " -

What we can all learn from Larry the Cow

Celebrating another year on the tech rollercoaster

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"Our records show that you have a [..] lifetime access account. As part of integrating A Cloud Guru into the Pluralsight platform, we are terminating your lifetime course access license [..] on Feb 1" ... I wonder if Pluralsight offers a "lifetime access account" so I can view what I paid for? 😂

Busy today re-stocking our wood supplies so that we can continue to cozy up around a real fire over the festive period! I bring the wood, my boys keep the fire going, and my wife makes the best hot chocolate! 🪵🔥☕️