
CloudNext · 2026-02-26 · 36 min
Most platform teams build for engineers. Pavel Brodsky's team builds with them. The difference cost Forter a full Kubernetes migration. Pavel, formerly Head of Developer Platform and now AI Adoption Lead at Forter, breaks down how treating internal engineers as customers changed everything: deploy times dropped 90%, compute costs fell 40%, and a streaming engine swap that used to take a month now takes days. Plus, what actually killed their first Kubernetes attempt, and why the answer to service mesh was no service mesh.