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Oct 107 min read

Game on: Go Multiplayer Mode to Supercharge your Internal Platform

We often celebrate the individual platform engineering or DevOps hero or heroine who (purportedly) creates something ingenious alone, but...

Sep 128 min read

Turning Legacy to Leverage: Building Developer Platforms in Brownfield Environments

Five lessons for building successful brownfield developer platforms -- and how to avoid my previous mistakes!

Sep 58 min read

Five Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Platform-as-a-Product

Colin Humphreys shares five key lessons for creating a successful platform-as-a-product from 20 years of working in platform engineering

May 313 min read

Creating a Bespoke Platform as a Service: History Doesn't Repeat, but It Often Rhymes

How do you create an internal developer platform (IDP) or platform as a service (PaaS) that supports self-service?

May 242 min read

Automating Platform Abstractions: The Power of the Promise API

This X thread about platform automation and abstraction from the ever-insightful Kelsey Hightower has been living in my head rent-free for t

Feb 296 min read

Platform Engineering: Orchestrating Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure

Learn more about platform orchestration, application choreography, and infrastructure composition.

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