another of my platform engineering deep dives suggested by readers made timely by a feature requested by users that isn't just useful; it effectively reengineers Radius to be much easier to adapt to a wider range of runtimes as well as the Crossplane-style custom resources it explicitly adds. (p/w)

Like Dapr and its predecessor OAM (which underpins Crossplane), Radius originated in @markrussinovich.bsky.social 's Office of the CTO so I asked him to explain why organizations need an application modelling platform and what Radius offers; @salaboy.com and @rstephens.me told me how Dapr fits in

I talked to Millennium bank about putting it into production and early experimenters who say the new resource type makes Radius relevant for a lot more organizations who need to fit it into their own environments and will be going back to see what they can do with it now

the application modelling in Radius is exactly the kind of thing that appeals to me: I love (semi)structured definitions and visualisations that means everyone can see how things fit together; but it's overkill for some, you need to have enough problems and infrastructure expertise to do the work

and again, I've dived so deep that this piece is behind @thestack.bsky.social paywall; if I've quoted you and you don't have access, let me know and I'll connect you to my editor Ed Targett to get you a subscription comped