Tag: platformengineering

  • Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy – Turns out computer are always difficult.

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  • Creating a Communications Framework for Platform Engineering – Bryan covers internal community management for platforms.

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  • Platform Engineering: Evolution, Trends, and Future Impact on Software Delivery –

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  • Did we just make platform engineering much easier by shipping a cloud IDP?Architecture Musings – Google Cloud IDP.

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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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  • Top 10 Platform Engineering Takeaways from PlatEngDay & KubeCon London 2025 – I should probably read this.

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  • The 2024 State of Platform Engineering? Fledgling at Best – ”Only about 9% of respondents were indeed mature by the CNCF Platform Maturity Model’s standards.” // (1) There must be a lot of Tanzu Platform users in that 9%, (2) good thing we decided to throw out all the previous PaaS work and build up…

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  • Platform Engineering: The Pioneers Who Built It – Thought-leaders of platform engineering.

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  • DORA Report 2024 – A Look at Throughput and Stability – Developer productivity is fine, but: “We thought the bottleneck was developers writing code, but in fact the bottleneck is putting good code into production.” // Maybe the current trend in DevOps/platform engineering/cloud native to to stop caring about developer productivity, rather, re-silo and let…

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  • Platform Engineering: Why You’re Doing It Wrong – Hopefully also how to do to real right.

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  • Internal Developer Platform: Insights from Conversations with Over 100 Experts – Looks comprehensive!

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  • “a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity”

    “a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity”

    My daughter’s opinion of platform engineering is “cool story, let’s go get that kibbeling.” Relative to your interests Ask HN: What happens to “.io” TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands? – Not good. Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings – ”We found that even the best product teams…

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  • Platforms Engineering – Not a fan: “Platform engineering isn’t gluing a bunch of off-the-shelf tools together. More templates, variables, and YAML isn’t going to make it easier for application developers to deploy faster, reduce cognitive load, and still innovate (a topic for another time). And the CFO isn’t going to fund multiple platform teams–at least…

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  • Platform Engineering Reshapes Software Dev at Bechtle – Customer case or Bechtle using Humanitec.

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  • How DevOps can come back from the dead, and why it must

    How DevOps can come back from the dead, and why it must

    The DevOps community is running on fumes and at the lowest point in mindshare and interest that it’s ever been at. This is stupid. The practices, tools, and mindset of DevOps are vital to how most organization run their software1 and DevOps has improved the way the software we use everyday is built and run,…

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  • Are platforms pointless? – ‘So much of “platform engineering” treats the application process itself as the main event. Sure, great, you make it easy for me to run hundreds of Nginx’s with whatever-the-fuck behind them, and restart and blue-green deploy and autoscale. Great. That’s not my performance bottleneck.’ // He says: (1) It’s just a…

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  • Platform Engineering is just adding Product Management to Ops

    Platform Engineering is just adding Product Management to Ops

    I don’t know. I’ve been trying to sort out what platform engineering is for awhile.1 It matters a lot for my job! While I haven’t verified it, it seems like it started as a marketing campaign from Humanitec and then took on a life of its own. Now the likes of Gartner have practice areas…

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  • How to blackmail your boss into adopting platform engineering, DevOps, agile, etc.

    How to blackmail your boss into adopting platform engineering, DevOps, agile, etc.

    This is a good talk listing some tactics for changing how organizations work. It’s targeted at executives. What’s bonkers is that, as the screenshot below, it has just 27 views. In the talk, we have a former group CIO at American Airlines. She’s telling you her tips for how to introduce change in a large…

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  • How To Measure Platform Engineering – Suggested metrics: “Market share. Onboarding time. Net Promoter Score (NPS). Key customer metrics.”

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  • The Tanzu Platform – platform engineering in a box

    The Tanzu Platform – platform engineering in a box

    The Tanzu Platform – platform engineering in a box for private cloud This week, at my work, we launched the Tanzu Platform. This is both actual, new things and strategic tuning of many of our existing products. In brief, we’re focusing a lot more on private cloud PaaS now, and private cloud data services. (Sure,…

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