Tag: platforms
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DIY Platform – don’t do it
Here’s the 15 minute version of my overview of why you should buy your platform instead of building it. It’s based on the paper I co-authored on the topic. You can find the slides here, and there’s also a longer version of the talk from cfgmgmtcamp 2026. If you want to see more of my…
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Platform as a Product, 2017 to 2026
I updated our Platform as a Product paper recently, available here as a PDF. This paper has a long history: it was first published in 2017, updated in 2018, and then 2021. The concept was core to Pivotal Software – both in Pivotal Labs and with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. After Humanitec killed DevOps, around 2022,…
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Defeating Conway’s Law
Try using a platform to combat Conway’s Law and organizational friction caused by too many groups/silos. This matters because it removes the structural excuse for fragmentation. When a single platform surfaces all the controls a unified team needs, there is no longer a technical reason to keep five separate teams in five separate rooms. The…
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DIY platforms: $37.5 million, 60 people, and you’re still not done
What it actually costs to build your own internal developer platform over five years, and why most “we’ll just build it” pitches are pricing the cheap version. Sixty people and $7.5 million a year, every year, is what it costs to build and operate your own internal developer platform if you do it the way…
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Platforms, Agents, Anxiety, and Ice Cream
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. This week it’s a digest of the flow of stuff. If you want to keep up day-to-day, and even more content not included below, check out my newly reborn Weblog on The World Wide Web. Original Content Things I’ve written A great platform as a product paper, and a fun platform…
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Good Management Is a Fad, Use Women’s Razors, and AI Saves Three Hours a Week
3 factors is all you need In this Tanzu Talk interview, Coté talks Brian Friedman about his extensive experience working with Pivotal, Tanzu, and Broadcom. They discuss the intricacies of modernizing enterprise applications, the relevance of .NET in the current tech landscape, and the role of platforms like Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. They also explore…
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Internal Developer Platform: Insights from Conversations with Over 100 Experts – Looks comprehensive!
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“Consistency” – the less platforms, the better
Have you tried having less? Standardized. Centralized. Consistent. Those words I use over and over when talking about platforms. In large organizations, you’ve got hundreds, even thousands, of applications. There are likely tens of “platforms”: the stacks of runtime and middleware goo that all those apps run on. Maybe even hundreds if the company is…
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Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering – A whole lot of first hand accounts of building and running developer platforms. (1) the platform should include CI/CD tooling, and I presume how to package and configure apps for production, (2) use developer surveys to track usage and needs, (3) product manage the platform, with a…
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Patterns vs Platforms – It’s all hard stuff. Instead of centralized platforms, perhaps consider public cloud instead, mixed with conventions. Variation: don’t build your own platform, outsource it to a vendor/cloud.
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The Care and Feeding of Internal Developer Platforms – Five benefits of monitoring and managing internal developer platforms are noted: improved system performance, cost reduction, scalability, enhanced security, and improved feedback loops. Achieving these benefits entails securing deployment environments, establishing system baselines, setting up alerting rules, monitoring application performance, and automating processes.
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These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers
Remember that a platform is for application developers Sam Newman has a great take on the dangers of forgetting the point of developers platforms. As you may recall, I think the same: infrastructure builders get easily distracted by building infrastructure when it’d be more helpful to pay more attention to developer usability and needs. This…
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Link: Comparing Kubernetes to Pivotal Cloud Foundry — A Developer’s Perspective
Exactly what it says. The install and ops experiences are not covered, of course. Original source: Comparing Kubernetes to Pivotal Cloud Foundry — A Developer’s Perspective
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The platforms were ultimately product-driven, not client-driven, and built in silos without collaboration. Currently, advisers are forced to go to five different places to do their work, often times duplicating functions in ways that are incredibly inefficient and not intuitive. Merrill expects this new consolidated platform will simplify the adviser and client experience in a…
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