My name is Elton Minetto

This is another chapter in the series I’ve been writing about one of the subjects that has interested me most in recent years: platform engineering. In case you missed the previous posts, here’s a recap:

This post is part of my series on platform engineering, but it’s also a follow-up to a subject I’m very interested in: observability.

Continuing my series on platform engineering, I want to share my view on platform teams. The first question we usually ask is:

In my previous post, I promised to answer the question “how do we start?”, but I want to step back and introduce another definition.

For the past four years, platform engineering has been part of my work and studies, so I’m starting a series of posts about what I’ve learned along the way.

From April 22nd to 24th, I attended Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, where Google unveiled updates to GCP and related technologies. For two years, I participated in Google I/O through the Developer Expert (GDE) program. …

If you’ve been following the news in recent weeks (March/April 2026), you must have read about two major “supply chain attacks” that occurred. You were probably affected in some way by the problem with …

I really like Pat Kua’s work. Whether it’s his blog posts, books, lectures, or newsletter, he always delivers high-quality content, especially for technical leaders.

In this first post of 2026, I want to recommend a very simple app that has proven quite useful in my daily life: LookAway.

In these almost 30 years of my career, I’ve seen many technologies and tools emerge (and die), and looking back, I’ve always had two premises about how to adopt them: