Sam Barlien
Researcher @ Weave intelligence
About
Sam Barlien is a researcher at Weave Intelligence, the research arm of platformengineering.org, the world’s largest platform engineering community. With more than 10 years tracking technology communities and ecosystems, he brings first-hand perspective to his research on platform engineering and industry trends. He contributes to Weave Intelligence reports and conducts the weekly research interview series. He co-hosts PlatformCon, the world’s largest platform engineering conference, and contributes to Platform Weekly, the Ambassador program and the platformengineering.org blog.
Latest research by
Sam Barlien
State of AI in Platform Engineering 2025
State of Platform Engineering Report: Volume 4
Observability for platform engineers
Why vulnerability management is a platform capability, not a developer responsibility
How to align platform and security teams to master vulnerability management
Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management for platform engineers
Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) for Platform Engineers
Vulnerability management for platform engineers
The inflection point: How platform engineering serves the world
The great unlock How platform engineering creates AI-native enterprises
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