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April 14, 2026 Reading Time: 4 minutes

You have three different scripts to clean up AWS resources. Your on-call engineer is running a Python snippet from a forgotten Gist. And your "golden path" documentation is already two major versions behind the actual CLI tooling. platform tools folder

Every platform engineering team starts the same way. You build a beautiful internal developer portal (IDP), write some Terraform modules, and set up a few CI pipelines. But six months later, you hit the wall . April 14, 2026 Reading Time: 4 minutes You

make db-failover Instead of: Finding the wiki, clicking three links, copying a broken command, and crying. My team used to spend 2 hours every Monday morning cleaning up stale environments. One person ran kubectl get ns , another ran a Python script locally, and a third manually deleted ECR images. Every platform engineering team starts the same way

When the database is down, you don't want to Google kubectl commands.

What is the most useful script in your team's tools/ folder? Let me know in the comments below.