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Community is Mission Critical for Platform Engineering

Establishing an internal community is one of the keys to enterprise platform engineering. A lean platform team can’t support all the support and consultative requests from thousands of developers. When you create and garden an internal community you’re trying to get the developers to talk with each other and help solve each others problems. 

In a talk at Explore going over their general platform engineering group, Jürgen Sußner went over this tactic. I wrote-up my take on using internal communities for support and platform innovation over on the Tanzu blog.

Jürgen works at DATEV, a German company that makes widely used accounting software. They’ve been running on Cloud Foundry (via the Tanzu Platform) for over six years and now are supporting over 1,200 apps and services that span 18,000+ containers and 8,000 virtual machines. There’s over 2,000 developers using the platform. So, the stories and advice they have are pretty enterprise-y, exactly the kind of scale I like the study.

Anyhow, here’s my write-up of Jürgen’s story of the internal community their platform team relies on. This pattern comes up a lot in other organizations that have been running platforms for a couple of years, like Mercedes and Garmen.

Software Defined Talk #484: A Lot of USB Ports

Take a listen this week’s podcast episode:

This week, we discuss Dell's growth in AI servers, GEICO’s transition from VMware to OpenStack, and the concept of Kingmaking. Plus, plenty of thoughts on USB hubs.

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Conferences

Talks I’m giving, places I’ll be, and other plans.

SREday London 2024, speaking, September 19th to 20th. SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21st, 2024. Coté speaking. Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, Oct 9th. VMware Explore Barcelona, speaking, Nov 4th to 7th.

Discounts! SREDay London and Amsterdam: 20% off with the code SRE20DAY. Cloud Foundry Day 20% off with the code CFEU24VMW20.

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There’s not enough links or wastebook entries to include, so I’ll ball up some more and put them in the next episode.