Daniel Westgaard

Jul 3

How to add a blast-radius gate to your merge pipeline

#blastradius #cicd #platformengineering #githubactions

Can AI check the blast radius of a PR before you merge?

14 min read

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Jul 2

Can AI check the blast radius of a PR before you merge?

#blastradius #impactanalysis #pullrequests #aicoding

You can index every repo in Cursor. It still can't tell you what breaks.

11 min read

Jul 1

You can index every repo in Cursor. It still can't tell you what breaks.

#cursor #monorepo #codebaseindexing #multirepo

Claude Code reads your clone. Cursor reads similarity. Neither sees the graph.

14 min read

Jun 30

Claude Code reads your clone. Cursor reads similarity. Neither sees the graph.

#aicodingagents #crossrepocontext #claudecode #cursor

What 208 kubernetes-sigs repos actually depend on

15 min read

Jun 29

What 208 kubernetes-sigs repos actually depend on

#kubernetes #kubernetessigs #dependencygraph #crossrepodependencies

Change failure rate is up 30% — here's how to measure yours in an afternoon

11 min read

Jun 29

Change failure rate is up 30% — here's how to measure yours in an afternoon

#dorametrics #changefailurerate #platformengineering #aicoding

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Internal Python Package

8 min read

Jun 29

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Internal Python Package

#python #platformengineering #devops #dependencymanagement

Backstage alternatives in 2026: first ask why you wanted Backstage

20 min read

Jun 29

Backstage alternatives in 2026: first ask why you wanted Backstage

#backstage #platformengineering #developerportals #servicecatalogs

Auto-Discovering Infrastructure Dependencies Across 10 Ecosystems

11 min read

Jun 29

Auto-Discovering Infrastructure Dependencies Across 10 Ecosystems

#platformengineering #infrastructure #terraform #docker

The State of Infrastructure Dependency Tooling in 2026

11 min read

Jun 29

The State of Infrastructure Dependency Tooling in 2026

#platformengineering #infrastructure #dependencymanagement #devops

The catalog maintenance trap: why service catalogs go stale

1 comment

14 min read

Jun 29

The catalog maintenance trap: why service catalogs go stale

#platformengineering #backstage #servicecatalogs #developerportals

Modeled graphs and parsed graphs: two architectures for cross-repo context in the agentic era

6 min read

Jun 29

Modeled graphs and parsed graphs: two architectures for cross-repo context in the agentic era

#platformengineering #port #internaldeveloperportal #blueprints

The Infrastructure Dependency Problem No One Has Solved

17 min read

Jun 29

The Infrastructure Dependency Problem No One Has Solved

#platformengineering #infrastructure #terraform #dependencymanagement

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Internal npm Package

8 min read

Jun 29

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Internal npm Package

#npm #javascript #platformengineering #devops

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Ansible Role

13 min read

Jun 29

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Ansible Role

#ansible #ansibleroles #ansiblecollections #blastradius

AI Doesn't Understand Blast Radius: Why Change Failure Rates Are Up 30%

18 min read

Jun 29

AI Doesn't Understand Blast Radius: Why Change Failure Rates Are Up 30%

#aicoding #platformengineering #infrastructure #dependencymanagement

AI coding agents need cross-repo context. The teams running them at scale are already building it themselves.

13 min read

Jun 29

AI coding agents need cross-repo context. The teams running them at scale are already building it themselves.

#aicodingagents #crossrepocontext #platformengineering #crossrepodependencies

The repo your agent didn't clone is the one it breaks

11 min read

Jun 29

The repo your agent didn't clone is the one it breaks

#aicodingagents #crossrepocontext #blastradius #terraform

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Kustomize Base

13 min read

Jun 27

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Kustomize Base

#kustomize #kubernetes #blastradius #dependencymapping

What 56 Prometheus repos actually depend on

21 min read

Jun 25

What 56 Prometheus repos actually depend on

#prometheus #observability #dependencygraph #crossrepodependencies

I counted every cross-repo edge in two real orgs. Not one was a code symbol.

8 min read

Jun 25

I counted every cross-repo edge in two real orgs. Not one was a code symbol.

#crossrepo #dependencygraph #artifactgraph #blastradius

What version constraints actually look like across real Terraform estates

10 min read

Jun 24

What version constraints actually look like across real Terraform estates

#terraform #versionmanagement #platformengineering #dependencymanagement

You changed the shared CI template. Half the org got it instantly. The other half will never see it.

9 min read

Jun 23

You changed the shared CI template. Half the org got it instantly. The other half will never see it.

#gitlabci #githubactions #platformengineering #dependencymanagement

Overmind shows you the blast radius in your running cloud. It can't show you the repos that were building on what you changed.

19 min read

Jun 19

Overmind shows you the blast radius in your running cloud. It can't show you the repos that were building on what you changed.

#overmind #terraform #blastradius #crossrepo

You deprecated the internal library. The repos still using it never saw the warning.

12 min read

Jun 19

You deprecated the internal library. The repos still using it never saw the warning.

#deprecation #dependencymanagement #crossrepodependencies #modules

Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.

15 min read

Jun 17

Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.

#busfactor #tribalknowledge #platformengineering #crossrepodependencies

A CVE just hit your base image. Your scanner won't tell you which repos to fix.

11 min read

Jun 15

A CVE just hit your base image. Your scanner won't tell you which repos to fix.

#docker #baseimage #cve #vulnerabilitymanagement

Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.

9 min read

Jun 14

Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.

#tribalknowledge #platformengineering #knowledgetransfer #keypersonrisk

GitLab Orbit maps your whole SDLC. It still can't tell you what an infrastructure change will break.

9 min read

Jun 12

GitLab Orbit maps your whole SDLC. It still can't tell you what an infrastructure change will break.

#gitlaborbit #dependencygraph #blastradius #terraform

How to Find Every Consumer of Your GitLab CI Template

9 min read

Jun 11

How to Find Every Consumer of Your GitLab CI Template

#gitlabci #platformengineering #devops #dependencymanagement

Is Backstage worth it? The real question is whether anyone will use it

12 min read

Jun 10

Is Backstage worth it? The real question is whether anyone will use it

#backstage #platformengineering #developerportals #servicecatalogs

Backstage alternatives in 2026: first ask why you wanted Backstage

9 min read

Jun 8

Backstage alternatives in 2026: first ask why you wanted Backstage

#backstage #platformengineering #developerportals #servicecatalogs

How to give GitHub Copilot cross-repo context today

10 min read

Jun 7

How to give GitHub Copilot cross-repo context today

#aicodingagents #crossrepocontext #githubcopilot #multirepo

Monorepo vs polyrepo: the debate is measuring the wrong thing

10 min read

Jun 7

Monorepo vs polyrepo: the debate is measuring the wrong thing

#monorepo #polyrepo #multirepo #platformengineering

The CRA's 24-hour clock is a cross-repo question. Your SBOM answers a different one.

18 min read

Jun 2

The CRA's 24-hour clock is a cross-repo question. Your SBOM answers a different one.

#cra #sbom #crossrepodependencies #supplychainsecurity

12 min read

Repo access was never the hard part

May 31

Repo access was never the hard part

#aicodingagents #crossrepocontext #multirepo #dependencygraph

Inferred context is not a dependency graph

6 comments

7 min read

May 30

Inferred context is not a dependency graph

#aicodingagents #crossrepocontext #contextengine #dependencygraph

Symbol graphs and artifact graphs: why Sourcegraph stops where infrastructure starts

12 min read

May 22

Symbol graphs and artifact graphs: why Sourcegraph stops where infrastructure starts

#sourcegraph #scip #codesymbolgraph #artifactgraph

Cross-repo context is in product docs. The graph is not.

18 min read

May 20

Cross-repo context is in product docs. The graph is not.

#crossrepocontext #aicodingagents #crossrepodependencies #dependencygraph

You don't need a virtual monorepo. You need a graph.

16 min read

AI coding agents need cross-repo context. The teams running them at scale are already building it themselves."

May 13

You don't need a virtual monorepo. You need a graph.

#aicodingagents #crossrepocontext #virtualmonorepo #platformengineering

4 comments

14 min read

May 10

AI coding agents need cross-repo context. The teams running them at scale are already building it themselves."

#ai #crossrepocontext #platformengineering #ployrepo

Meta needed 50+ AI agents to map their tribal knowledge. The most durable piece of their stack is the part you can build today.

5 comments

10 min read

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Go Module

May 8

Meta needed 50+ AI agents to map their tribal knowledge. The most durable piece of their stack is the part you can build today.

#platformengineering #tribalknowledge #crossrepodependencies #crossrepocontext

4 comments

9 min read

Apr 20

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Go Module

#go #platformengineering #devops

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Helm Chart

9 min read

Apr 18

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Helm Chart

#helm #kubernetes #platformengineering #devops

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Reusable GitHub Actions Workflow

8 min read

Apr 17

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Reusable GitHub Actions Workflow

#githubactions #platformengineering #devops #dependencymanagement

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Terraform Module

8 min read

Apr 15

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Terraform Module

#terraform #platformengineering #devops #dependencymanagement

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Docker Base Image

6 min read

Apr 13

How to Find Every Consumer of Your Docker Base Image

#docker #platformengineering #devops #dependencymanagement