Achieving Compliance as a Platform Engineering Team by Helping Developers
InfoQ, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Platform teams succeed at compliance by prioritizing developer experience through simplified governance and incremental rollout.
Davide de Paolis describes how a platform team moved from forced compliance workflows to collaborative governance.
Rather than imposing strict rules, they implemented minimum viable governance built on prevention, detection and communication.
Specific measures included simplifying AWS tagging requirements, automating compliance detection through Security Hub, and using event-driven Slack alerts instead of audit reports.
Success depended on transparency, empathy, and framing compliance as an enabler of faster, safer development rather than a bureaucratic constraint.