Ezequiel Foncubiera
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Ezequiel Foncubiera
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Platform Engineer | Aspiring Astrophysicist | Mountain Runner | Author of Crafting Platforms

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This project is something I’m building in public. Slowly, thoughtfully, and with a lot of care. If you find it interesting or useful, sharing this post really helps and means more than you might think.

Thanks to everyone supporting the journey so far 🙏
December 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The role of a platform isn’t to block developers. It’s to make the right path obvious, well-paved, and easy to follow while keeping guardrails in place so teams don’t accidentally drift into unsafe or unsustainable territory.

Good platforms don’t remove choice. They reduce unnecessary decisions.
December 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is why golden paths matter.

A golden path is not the only way to reach a destination. It’s the simplest, safest, and most supported one. Other paths can exist, and sometimes they’re necessary, but they all come with additional responsibility.
December 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
El conformista que no quiere cambiar, tampoco se lo pasa muy bien. Pero en general, es así. El que impulsa es el que pone toda la carne en el asador, y muchas veces se le quema… y se la tiene que comer el.
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is funny.
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Crafting Platforms | Ezequiel Foncubierta | Substack
Companion newsletter to the Crafting Platforms book. Notes on book progress, news and trends in Platform Engineering. Click to read Crafting Platforms, by Ezequiel Foncubierta, a Substack…
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November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It’s not a deep dive (that comes later), but a way to explain why the IDP is the right unit of thinking for platform engineering, and why a product mindset is just one part of it.

If you find it useful, I’d appreciate a share so that more engineers working on platforms can discover the project.
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
So I stepped back, reframed the chapter, and turned it into an introduction to the IDP: the core concepts, the foundational capabilities, and the structure that supports everything else we’ll build in the book. I think it is important to make it clear from the beginning where we are going.
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I consider myself matured in DB monitoring, but the insights I got by asking it to check a DB server over a 24h period is just astonishing. In a blink of an eye. And the recommendations that followed.
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
¿Ceder asiento o tortazo de Batman? 🤔 buenísimo.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Engineering works exactly the same way. It has an implicity momentum that makes adoption harder.

Platform teams will fail if they ignore it. I tell you more in Crafting Platforms.

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#platform #engineering #devops #culture
Crafting Platforms | Ezequiel Foncubierta | Substack
Companion newsletter to the Crafting Platforms book. Notes on book progress, news and trends in Platform Engineering. Click to read Crafting Platforms, by Ezequiel Foncubierta, a Substack…
newsletter.craftingplatforms.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
To change its direction, you need to apply a gentle, continuous force over a long arc —sometimes with the help of a tugboat— to slowly bend its trajectory. There is no such thing as a sudden 90-degree turn in a ship that size.
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
You should focus on addressing today’s problems, whether or not that’s something the platform should support. Build trust. Make partners. Sophistication will come later. You deviate current engineering’s momentum towards your desired platform by gently pushing them over time. It’s applied physics!
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sure, technologically speaking I love the challenge. But, listen. No matter how shiny your platform is if you are not fixing developers problems along the way. You can’t spend months building a platform and hope developers will jump on it once you go live.
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM