Sofia Alvarez

Writer, Platform Engineering

Sofia focuses on internal developer platforms and developer experience, drawing on years building paved paths for large engineering orgs.

3 stories

They are used interchangeably and they are not the same thing. The distinction changes how you staff, budget and measure infrastructure work.

Sofia AlvarezSep 15, 20268 min read

The paved-path playbook: what to build first, what to buy, and how to earn adoption when nobody is forced to use what you ship.

Sofia AlvarezSep 10, 202612 min read

The patterns that keep a growing Terraform codebase safe to change — module boundaries, state isolation and limiting what a single apply can break.

Sofia AlvarezAug 25, 202611 min read

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