Josh Menzies
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Notes on building resilient platforms.

Essays on automation, observability, platform leadership, and the systems that enable teams to move fast.

Platform Engineering8 min

How we built the golden path for developers

Creating a self-service platform that reduced deployment time by 40% and standardized infrastructure across 5 AWS accounts. This post covers the journey from manual, error-prone deployments to a fully automated, developer-friendly platform.

Dec 15, 20248 min
Observability10 min

Observability at scale in a multi-account AWS org

Implementing Datadog and OpenTelemetry across 200+ EKS services, improving detection latency by 40% and MTTR by 25%. Learn how we standardized observability patterns, reduced alert fatigue, and enabled data-driven incident response.

Nov 20, 202410 min
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