Engineering Manager focused on Platform Engineering - EM @ syntasso.io - Writes Platform Engineering Monthly: https://pemonthly.com/ - 1/4 of Hybrid Cloud Show: hybridcloudshow.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3mwnv63iuu72z🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly September issue is out! 🔥 AWS can't restore Middle East data 🔓 AWS root accounts get sprayed 📉 Kubernetes HPA scales to zero 🤖 ChatGPT, Claude, Grok down together 📖 Read & subscribe → https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-september-f46 #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #Kubernetes29 Sep 2026 13:01 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnv63iuu72zhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3mtvrjdmphp2x🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #38 is out! 🗄️ PBS risks losing 70 years archives 🔓 81% of EKS clusters still exposed ⚠️ AsyncAPI supply chain compromised via Actions 🤖 Kubernetes bans unexplained AI PRs 📖 Read & subscribe → https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-august-300 #PlatformEngineering #DevOps25 Aug 2026 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvrjdmphp2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3mrp7m426pu2s🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly July 2026 is out! ✈️ Airbus walks away from AWS 🎯 CI/CD keeps being the attack surface (Codecov, Cordyceps) 💸 A $140B AWS billing alert (yes, really) 🚦 Ingress-NGINX retirement — migrate or panic 👉 pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-july-d06 https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-july-d0628 Jul 2026 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrp7m426pu2shttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3mpisc4sq622e🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly June 2026 is out! 🔑 Google API key revocation is broken 🪱 npm worm spreads via stolen tokens 🤖 MCP tools are your attack surface ☁️ AWS and GCP now share networks 📖 Read & subscribe → pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-june-cea #PlatformEngineering https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-june-cea30 Jun 2026 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpisc4sq622ehttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3mmqtnnido722🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly May 2026 is out! 🔐 CISA leaked their own AWS GovCloud keys 🔌 3,800 repos breached via VSCode extension 🚂 Railway cut off by Google Cloud overnight 📖 Read & subscribe → pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-may-c7e #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #DevSecOps https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-may-c7e?r=1vmajm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true26 May 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmqtnnido722https://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3mkkgnrand32h🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #29 is out! 💸 $18k Google Cloud bill despite a $7 budget. Leaked API key, 60k attacker requests, spending caps ignored 🇳🇱 Netherlands signs deal with European cloud provider as digital sovereignty moves from politics to procurement https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-april-c55?r=1vmajm28 Apr 2026 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkgnrand32hhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3mie4xfhtia2r🗞️ Platform Engineering Monthly #28 is out now! 🔐 Opt out of GitHub Copilot training before Apr 24th ⚠️ Trivy supply chain attack — CI/CD security is in a bad place ☁️ AWS UAE incident reminds us DR still matters 🎙️ I'll be speaking at PlatformCon 2026! 👉 https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-march-29231 Mar 2026 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mie4xfhtia2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3mfm3po3fsh2x📰 February’s Platform Engineering Monthly is live. ⚙️ CI pain at scale 🤖 AI contribution overload ☁️ cloud misconfig risks ... and where I’ll be speaking! 👉 https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-february-20424 Feb 2026 11:45 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfm3po3fsh2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3mdfxvlkyof26📰 January’s Platform Engineering Monthly is live! 🤖 AI-driven PRs, 🛠️ platform ownership creep, ☁️ sovereign cloud, and 📅 events 👉 https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-january-1ff27 Jan 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdfxvlkyof26https://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3manquo3wbd2xPlatform Engineering Monthly – December 2025! 🎄 💸 GitHub’s self-hosted runner tax—rolled back after backlash! 🧟 Zombie GitHub Actions: Secrets exposed, code running wild 🛠️ DIY Terraform Cloud—free tier alternative! 📖 Full issue: https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-december-ea9 👉 💡 Got platform tips? Reply or DM! https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-december-202523 Dec 2025 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3manquo3wbd2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3m6ri57yaxc25Pleased to finally get my first Android app published! It's a pretty basic webview wrapper for Mistrals Le chat, but I find it useful. 😬 https://f-droid.org/packages/org.shano.assistral/ Source is here: https://github.com/shano/assistral29 Nov 2025 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ri57yaxc25https://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3m6hfkltpa72sPlatform Engineering Monthly – November 2025! 🎉 (2 years strong!) 🌪️ Cloudflare outage: The internet’s new normal? 🚨 CNCF retires Nginx Ingress—migrate or panic? 💸 My $1k AWS mistake (and how to avoid yours) 📦 25K+ npm repos exposed in Shai-Hulud 2.0 attack https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-november-b47 👉 https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-november-202525 Nov 2025 13:01 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6hfkltpa72shttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3m4av7cg5zq2ePlatform Engineering Monthly – October 2025! 🔥 AWS outage breaks the internet 🌀 GitHub shifts focus to Azure 💬 Platform engineers = salespeople?! ⚙️ “Platform as a Product” done right 🏺 Greek myths & modern platforms Read the full issue 👉 https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-october-abb28 Oct 2025 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4av7cg5zq2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3m22xrbwwgm2zPlatform Engineering Monthly - September 2025! ⚡ 99.5% faster ClickHouse queries ⚠️ Docker bug breaks container isolation 🔓 s1ngularity attack leaks GitHub/NPM secrets 🎉 K8s finally handles databases natively https://open.substack.com/pub/platformengineeringmonthly/p/platform-engineering-monthly-september-b9f https://open.substack.com/pub/platformengineeringmonthly/p/platform-engineering-monthly-september-b9f?r=1vmajm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true30 Sep 2025 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m22xrbwwgm2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3lxcjestuoo2n🔥 Platform Engineering Monthly — August 2025 is live! 💬 AWS "pricing bugs" 🛑 K8s ≠ a platform 💸 Fund open source 🧱 Build SaaS with Kamaji 🔍 GitHub Actions security 📅 KubeCon India, Conf42 & more! 👇 Read: https://platformengineeringmonthly.substack.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-august-efd26 Aug 2025 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxcjestuoo2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3lv562ti2qs2c🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #20 is out! (Now with the correct url!) 🧵 AWS Q nearly nukes infra 🛑 npm “is” malware warning 💸 AWS boosts free tier 🤖 Kiro: spec-first Claude playground 🧰 Bash observability, curl | bash vetting & more 📅 Conf42, KubeCon India & more https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-july-3d529 Jul 2025 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv562ti2qs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3lse7fqr3je2a🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly – June 2025 is live! 🪦 Kaniko gets archived – RIP 🫡 📊 Is Datadog becoming a platform engineering company? 📚 Smart k8s tips, Mario on EKS, and more! 🧪 Cool new tools you’ll want to test Read the full edition 👉 https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-june-9a024 Jun 2025 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lse7fqr3je2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3lq5ezqvvz72l🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #18 is out! 🛠️ GitHub Actions audit + hardening tips 📦 Docker vs Chainguard: game on 💸 37signals ditches AWS and saves $10M 🔥 New tools: Tilt, Terraform MCP, Kubetail 📖 Read & subscribe →pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-may-d94 https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-may-d9427 May 2025 09:32 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq5ezqvvz72lhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3lnx6l2y7zb2s🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #17 is out! 🤖 Drowning in AI hype at Google Next 📈 231 announcements, 190 AI mentions (!?) 🛠️ Coolify, Zev, and MCP servers to play with 🎤 Webinars on MVP platforms, adoption failures, and Helm chart horrors 📖 Read & subscribe - https://open.substack.com/pub/platformengineeringmonthly/p/platform-engineering-monthly-april-665?r=1vmajm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true29 Apr 2025 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnx6l2y7zb2shttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3llt7wuv4v22zIt was surprisingly easy (and kinda fun) to expose a running system to Claude Desktop using an MCP server, it's the first time it felt like AI was actually an alternative interface. Finally, back to text only interfaces!02 Apr 2025 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3llt7wuv4v22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3ll7bkrh34v2p🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #16 is out! 🇪🇺 Big shift: EU moving away from US clouds 🤯 CNCF says: “It’s not Kubernetes, it’s you” 🛠️ New tools: Yoke, Git-Who 📍 KubeCon London, PlatEngDay & SecurityCon on the radar! 📖 Read & subscribe → https://open.substack.com/pub/platformengineeringmonthly/p/platform-engineering-monthly-march-0a0 https://open.substack.com/pub/platformengineeringmonthly/p/platform-engineering-monthly-march-0a0?r=1vmajm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true25 Mar 2025 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll7bkrh34v2phttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3lktelc6yns22The true reward of co-hosting a podcast is, without a doubt, the unwavering respect of your peers.20 Mar 2025 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lktelc6yns22https://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3liynslwcgj24🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #15 is out! 🐳 Docker walks back unlimited pulls (kinda...) ☁️ AWS breaks S3 SDK compatibility 🔧 Platform engineering: Boom or bust? 🔥 KubeCon, BackstageCon & OpenTofu Day coming up! 📖 Read & subscribe → https://buff.ly/3QuzjTJ #PlatformEngineering25 Feb 2025 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3liynslwcgj24https://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3lhvdelgg7k2pI'm going to do a bit of an overhaul of my homelab, migrating it to Kubernetes, and I'll (attempt) to document it along the way. Any tips or tricks, do let me know! https://shanedowling.com/homelab-setup-the-journey-to-kubernetes.html11 Feb 2025 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhvdelgg7k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3lheng6la5s2xLooks like YouTube is cracking down on VPNs. Spent an evening setting up Pinchflat and Jellyfin on an old VPS, and now I have my own personal, distraction-free YouTube! 🎉04 Feb 2025 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lheng6la5s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/shandow.bsky.social/post/3lgshhneg7s25🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #14 is here! Highlights include: 📈 Kubernetes in 2025: Trends like AI/ML, edge computing, and tools like Karpenter! 💡 Why does Cloudflare Pages have a super generous free tier? 🛠️ How-to: Writing Kubernetes controllers. https://buff.ly/4aESGmj28 Jan 2025 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:lm54jbc32riz2irdgi5o6qv3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgshhneg7s25