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...
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.
"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...
@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...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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.
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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...
"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...
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...
This is awesome news!
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.
What an amazing achievement! I’m still amazed that 100+ subscribe to my little platform engineering newsletter! I have two questions…. 1/ What stopped you starting sooner, and 2/ What is the goal that drives forward from here?
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! 📈
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.
Explained to my third grade teacher that I read in a book that it’s spelt “color”. Her tone changed the next day when I brought in a few hundred page Basic book that I was teaching myself programming with. “Your… your… reading this by yourself!?!”
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!
"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. " -
"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! 🪵🔥☕️
Tensions are high in the Ross household, as the boys prepare for the Constructors Cup (of hot chocolate)! Last year we saw some very imaginative uses of icing sugar to help the structure endure more thumps from my rolling pin! 🏠🔨🍬
Happy festive everyone! 🎄❄ However you choose to spend this festive period, I wish you and your loved ones the very best!
Excitement builds in the Ross household as we kick off the annual Brandy Butter competition! My eldest is optimistic that 2024 is his year to take the (chocolate) crown this year! 🎄🥃🧈👑
Is it just me that's permanently disappointed at exactly how well going for even a short walk can change your brain juices for the better?