Tag: platform

  • Kubernetes Isn’t Enough for a Production-Ready Platform – Yeah. You should buy your platform instead of build it.

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  • Internal Developer Platform marketing: the people, the community management

    Internal Developer Platform marketing: the people, the community management

    Driving Platform Adoption: Community Is Your Value If you want developers to actually use your platform, you’ve got to give them more than APIs and automation. You need a community. In the third piece in our platform marketing series, Rita and I look at how the most successful platform teams invest in support forums, internal…

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  • Resume-driven Development

    Resume-driven Development

    Good wastebook list this episode, but first… Even the Germans suffer from RDD Some people actually did a study on resume-driven development. I thought it might be a joke at first, but, no: it appears to be serious. I’m working on refreshing a paper on the pitfalls of building your own application platform (“DIY platforms”),1…

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  • Drive Scale And Speed With The Platform Org Model – 59% of respondents have using a platform instead of whole bunch of different platforms as a priority. // Enterprise want the benefits of centralized, standardized IT stacks. Always. DIY platforms and shadow platforms (sprawl od accidental platforms) is often a bad idea. Your platform needs…

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  • A Simple Definition Of “Platform” – “a product that supports the creation and/or delivery of other products.”

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  • Intuit CTO keeps 8,000 engineers on track with a base platform of common services – Centralizing, standardizing.

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  • PaaS is Better Than Kubernetes

    PaaS is Better Than Kubernetes

    CaaS Problems Nicky lists the advantages of a real platform over Kubernetes. The platform is Cloud Foundry, and it’s been in development and use for many years, all ready to use. Building platforms I think he goes a little strong on the “sometimes Kubernetes is good for…” part, but that’s mandatory seasoning for such commentary.I…

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  • Private cloud is just fine, and here to stay, so build a great platform for yourself

    Private cloud is just fine, and here to stay, so build a great platform for yourself

    I did a second interview with the GM of my division at work, Tanzu. The first one was about Prunima’s career in IT management and, now, cloud. This second one is all about private cloud. Here’s a video except: Here’s a summary from our AI friend: When it comes to cloud infrastructure, Purnima Padmanabhan, Tanzu…

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  • How to support 1,000’s of developers for your internal developer platform

    How to support 1,000’s of developers for your internal developer platform

    Let’s start with some good looking cheese: Still Life with Cheese and Fruits, Roelof Koets, 1625. 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…

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  • 5 Lessons For Building a Platform as a Product – They’re doing a good job trying to evolve the Pivotal Cloud Foundry philosophy of platforms. // “I talked to a CTO at one of the world’s top banks, who explained that he loved what Cloud Foundry could do but wondered what would work for the…

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  • Buy your platform, don’t build it

    Buy your platform, don’t build it

    When it comes to cloud native application platforms, we’re at an important evolutionary point: will the best practice for platform strategies be to build or to buy? Should you choose the components you need for a platform and integrate them together, or should you buy a pre-integrated platform? Unless you’re a handful of organizations, the…

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  • Platform Maturity Model with Abby Bangser – Good framing: providing internal (dev) services to internal (dev) customers. (Abby has been doing a great job, devrel wise, in the past year+.)

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  • “Designing for Success: UX Principles for Internal Developer Platforms,” Kirsten Schwarzer, KubeCon EU, March, 2024. – – Good tour of applying design-think to platforms. That is, what do designers do on platform engineering teams. Some items: (1) Do at least one hour long user interview a week. This gives you an idea of what your…

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  • “Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking,” Samantha Coffman, KubeCon EU, March 2024. A lot of good commentary and advice on product managing the platform, some techniques, mindsets, etc. Chief among them: focus on the value/problem you’re solving first, then how you solve it second…also trying to quantify what the problem is so you can…

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  • Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs! – Abby Bangser, Syntasso & Whitney Lee, VMware – How can you start to take a design/UX-driven approach to building your platform (you know, your pile of Kubernetes stuff to pull it all together for app developers)? Whitney Lee & Abby Bangser have a good mind-model to…

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  • Platform engineers don’t have time for infrastructure

    Platform engineers don’t have time for infrastructure

    That’s from a 15 minute version of my platform talk. I focused just on the seven tips to get your platform group started and scale it. I’m recording this for a conference, but I think I’ll need to record it again – which means this version is a bonus video! 🤖 Fully dedicated to “juggling…

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  • 🏨📺🥶 Pieter Bruegel’s Discount Motel, Color TV, Cold AC

    🏨📺🥶 Pieter Bruegel’s Discount Motel, Color TV, Cold AC

    Generic Plan for a Starting a Platform Team in a Large Enterprise On Friday, I had a discussion with someone just starting to think about how they’d put a platform in place at their very large organization. I have my ever evolving prattle about that, of course. But rather than talk about (only) that, I…

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  • FY23: I got TikTok youths to watch my B2B videos about enterprise kubernetes & digital transformation

    FY23: I got TikTok youths to watch my B2B videos about enterprise kubernetes & digital transformation

    Prompt: A ham sandwich, painted in the style of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Hey, I have talk coming up on Thursday that you can watch live or see a replay of, it’s my current collection of best practices for running a platform for developers. You know, all that stuff you build on-top of kubernetes (or…

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  • The last “platform” diagram you’ll ever need – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #66

    The last “platform” diagram you’ll ever need – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #66

    The last “platform” diagram you’ll ever need, chop the first paragraph. Scroll all the way down for two secret videos about kubernetes. Grind! How to build apps to run on kubernetes Register for SpringOne Tour Chicago here, and use the code S1T_SAVE25 for a $25 discount. A Good “Platform” Diagram I’m always looking for good…

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  • 🗂 Link: The superpower to change one thing about Kubernetes

    “It’s optimized for cloud native applications – those that follow the patterns that are in my book for example. That represents only a subset of the applications that our enterprise customers need to address. Our 2020 strategy is to broaden the definition of our platform. To be more than just Cloud Foundry, but to broaden…

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