Tag: platformasaproduct
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Platform as a Product, 9 years later
Nine years after the platform as a product paper first came out, Caleb Washburn and I went through what changed. The answer is mostly “not much,” and the good bit is why developers keep asking for Kubernetes clusters they don’t actually want.
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“PE 2.0”
We are seeing a distinct movement where infrastructure is being reclaimed as a first-class platform concern. In the early days, platform engineering focused heavily on developer experience, often treating the underlying infrastructure as a utility that was managed separately. That is no longer sufficient. To succeed in the AI era, platform teams must have deep…
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Platform Engineering: Evolution or Rebranding? – Get yourself a PaaS. // “the idea of a dedicated team removing frictions by building tools and resuable abstractions is an idea that’s here to stay.”
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Heroku’s Strategic Refresh Signals Renewed Investment from Salesforce – Overview of “the new” Heroku, plus risks.
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Five Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Platform-as-a-Product – Text version of a good talk.
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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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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon – if you build it, your customers might not come. Why? – Platform as a product!
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Improving developer productivity with Platform as a Product, from PlatformCon 2023 – Great talk from the Cloud Foundry team at Mercedes-Benz on how they’ve been doing platform engineering. 300 apps, 1,500 platform services, and by my count, about 7 years of running it.
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2023-06-02 day note
Traveling back home, to Amsterdam, today. Yesterday’s VMUG Belgium talk went fine. Since it was to VMware admin types, I positioned my platform talk as a glimpse of their future. Whenever the infrastructure changes, you can use new application architectures…and then that drives new types of infrastructure and management needs…and so forth. It means that…