Issue 57 — Your Monitoring Bill Is Now a First-Class Engineering Problem
The Draft — Issue 57 Issue 57 · September 2026 · Platform Engineering & DevOps Your Monitoring Bill Is Now a First-Class Engineering Problem By Erik Chavez ·...
Issue 56 — Crossplane Wants to Replace Terraform. The Community Has Notes.
Issue 56 — Crossplane Wants to Replace Terraform. The Community Has Notes. Issue 56 — August 2026 Crossplane Wants to Replace Terraform. The Community Has...
Issue 55 — Your $470k AI Bill Is a Drift Problem in Disguise
Issue 55 | August 2026 Your Drift Is Showing. And Your Bill Is Too. By Erik Chavez · The Draft 🌟 Editor's Note Two things dominated this week's community...
Issue 54 — AI Won't Close the Judgment Gap. It Just Makes Bad Calls Faster.
The Draft: Issue 54 Issue 54 • August 18, 2026 AI Won't Close the Judgment Gap. It Just Makes Bad Calls Faster. By Erik Chavez • The Draft • DevOps, Platform...
Issue 53 — Your AI Code Reviewer Has No Definition of Done
The Draft: Issue 53 THE DRAFT Issue 53 Your AI code reviewer has no definition of done — and neither does your team. Week of August 10, 2026 🌟 Editor's Note...
The Draft: Issue 52 — Fourteen Tools to Ship One Deploy
The Draft: Issue 52Fourteen tools to ship one deploy — and nobody can name them all.Week of August 3, 2026🌟 Editor's NoteSomeone counted every tool their...
The Draft: Issue 51 — Your Agents Need Guardrails, Not Just Prompts
The Draft • Issue 51 Your Agents Need Guardrails, Not Just Prompts Week of July 27, 2026 🌟 Editor's Note AWS and Azure both had significant outages this...
The Draft: Issue 50 — Your Cloud Bill Doesn't Care About Your Architecture
The Draft • Issue 50 Your Cloud Bill Doesn't Care About Your Architecture Week of July 20, 2026 🌟 Editor's Note Someone's AWS account showed a balance of...
Issue 49 -- GPT-5.6 Sol is replacing Claude Fable as the daily driver for platform engineering
The Draft Issue 49 HERO IMAGE HEADER Issue 49 • July 12, 2026 AI Coding Agents Are Rewriting the Platform Engineer's Job Description By the Forge team •...
Issue 48 — Gartner Said GitHub Actions Is "Niche." The Internet Disagreed Loudly.
The Draft — Issue 48 Hero Thumbnail Header Issue 48 · July 2026 · Platform Engineering & DevOps Gartner Said GitHub Actions Is "Niche." The Internet...
The Draft: Issue 47 — The Boring Infrastructure That Actually Holds
The Draft: Issue 47 The Draft Issue 47 · DevOps & Platform Engineering Intelligence The Boring Infrastructure That Actually Holds Week of June 29, 2026 🌟...
The Draft: Issue 46 — Build Once, Ship What You Tested
HEADER / THUMBNAIL TITLE BAR The Draft • Issue 46 Build Once, Ship What You Tested Week of June 22, 2026 BODY Editor's Note 🌟 Editor's Note A team found out...
The Draft: Issue 45 — The Loop You Can't Afford to Run
HEADER / THUMBNAIL TITLE BAR The Draft • Issue 45 The Loop You Can't Afford to Run Week of June 16, 2026 BODY Editor's Note 🌟 Editor's Note This week someone...
The Draft: Issue 44 — Fast, Cheap, and Good Enough Is Winning
The Draft: Issue 44 Header Image Title Block The Draft: Issue 44 Fast, cheap, and good enough is winning — and the industry is quietly rearranging around it....
The Draft: Issue 43 — Your Agents Are Shipping. Who's Reviewing?
The Draft — Issue 43 Issue 43 · The Draft Your Agents Are Shipping. Who's Reviewing? By Erik · Week of June 1, 2026 · DevOps & Platform Engineering 🌟...
The Draft: Issue 42 — Who Owns the Code the Agent Wrote?
The Draft — Issue 42 Issue 42 · The Draft Who Owns the Code the Agent Wrote? By Erik · Week of May 25, 2026 · DevOps & Platform Engineering 🌟 Editor's Note...
The Draft: Issue 41
The Draft — Issue 41 Issue 41 · The Draft Three Trends Walking Into the Same Bar By Erik · Week of May 17th, 2026 · DevOps & Platform Engineering 🌟 Editor's...
