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Piotr Szwed, a 25-year infrastructure automation veteran, argues that the future of platform engineering lies in API-first, autonomous systems rather than traditional automation scripts. He critiques Terraform's ability to keep pace with modern cloud infrastructure and warns that teams using Jenkins or cron-triggered reconciliation loops are recreating the Kubernetes controller pattern in a fragile way. Piotr highlights emerging reference architectures from Amazon/Cisco (CNOE), SAP (ApeiroRA), and Google (KCC with Kro) as evidence the industry is converging on Kubernetes-operator-based, API-first platforms. He recommends incremental migration rather than wholesale replacement, noting that operators support import and read-only modes to ease transitions.

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Reference architectures are making the path clearer