Thesis#

A high CFR isn’t proof of engineers being weak. It’s proof of a system allowing bad code to reach production. Paved Roads are the routes where doing the right thing is cheaper than doing the wrong one.

What goes into a Paved Road#

Templates#

A new service generator in one command: repo + CI + observability + secret manager + RBAC + healthcheck + on-call ownership.

Quality gates by default#

CI starts with three mandatory gates that can’t be bypassed without tech-lead sign-off:

• static analysis,
• dependency vulnerability scan (CVE),
• test coverage thresholds on files changed in the PR.

Deploy preview + rollback#

Every PR ships a preview to an isolated environment. Every main-deploy has a 1-click rollback. This single component drops MTTR from hours to minutes.

ROI across three quarters#

Why it works#

Because it changes the direction of the post-incident question. From “who?” to “what in the platform allowed this?”. There’s no blame in that question, only work.

Platform Engineering isn’t a new team. It’s a new answer to an old question: where does creativity end and systematics begin.