talks - the menu
Plated as slides.
The arguments from the essays, plated for a room. Arrow keys to navigate, F for fullscreen - no download, no viewer, just the browser.
the headline
Contracts earn trust
Specs, stubs and pipelines decouple teams working at different cadences - and that discipline is exactly what AI needs. Contracts give agents a deterministic map of what your organisation can do, and the same pipeline verifies their changes. Start here.
given at API Days 2026 watch the recording → read the essay →
Service Anatomy
How enterprises usually wire an engine to its consumers - and how they should: a domain service and a versioned SDK, so a new product is configuration.
Delivery Architecture
A platform foundation to make delivery predictable - the system as the versioned unit, pipelines as codified workflows, evidence by default.
Code that can change
Clean Code and Test-Driven Development - the practices that enable the rest. You can't automate the delivery of code you're afraid to touch.
Chez Monowai
Platform engineering on a plate - every theme above, told through one kitchen. Recipes as contracts, the menu as Helm charts, tables as environments, and nothing past the pass unchecked.
Capability Brown
Platform architecture as landscape - terrain, beds, paved paths and a ha-ha for guardrails. Why platforms are fragile to neglect, and what the architect actually shapes.
dishes may be ordered in any sequence · all served from the same kitchen