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The true reward of co-hosting a podcast is, without a doubt, the unwavering respect of your peers.
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Platform 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
🔧 Tutorial: Nginx Gateway Fabric as Ingres
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Platform Engineering Monthly – October 2025!
🔥 AWS outage breaks the internet
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💬 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-
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My latest Platform Engineering Monthly newsletter is out!
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📊 Post engagement
7
Avg engagement / post
3.9%
Engagement vs followers
Jan 2023
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: The true reward of co-hosting a podcast is, without a doubt, the · 34 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.08 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 10 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.9×
Follows 190 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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The true reward of co-hosting a podcast is, without a doubt, the unwavering respect of your peers.
🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #29 is out!
💸 $18k Google Cloud bill despite a $7 budget. Leaked API key, 60k attacker requests, spending caps ignored
🎯 Coordinated supply chain blitz hits npm, PyPI & Docker Hub in 48 hours supply chain att…
Building open-source for Android is such a rewarding experience.
Platform 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 Sha…
Platform 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 👉 …
I never realised the PSP reached these dizzying highs.
My latest Platform Engineering Monthly newsletter is out!
https://buff.ly/4a3BM0x
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2nd Platform Engineering monthly has been released. Feedback welcome!
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🐘 Community & instance
Home server
social.lol
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Jan 2023
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated89/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~3.9% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
An Irish living on the UK seaside.
Posts about open source, platform engineering and other random stuff.
One of the hosts of Hybrid Cloud Show (https://hybridcloudshow.com/) which is a part of the @LateNightLinux family of pods. I also publish a monthly Platform Engineering newsletter at https://pemonthly.com.
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