Welcome to the June round-up of the most important platform engineering news! We've included the top three links for articles, technical news, videos, and podcasts from the platform engineering community. If you have questions or want to share a link, please contact us.
Articles
Aviran Mordo, VP of Engineering at Wix, provides an overview of the internal developer productivity-focused platform the Wix team has built.
Read a blog recap of our recent webinar that covered Gartner's Hype Cycle and how to overcome the top three platform engineering challenges.
The Google team shares their take on platform engineering, which has generated a lot of discussion in the wg-platform channel within the CNCF Slack 🍿
Tech News
A look at two common practices to harness the full power of Terraform modules. This followed nicely from our recent LinkedIn discussion on this topic.
Markus Eisele from Red Hat provides an overview of the popular portal. The Spotify folks are also offering enterprise support for Backstage.
The latest release of this Docker Desktop competitor includes several new features and upgrades, including improvements to Kubernetes, UI, and Apple Silicon.
Video
Check out the talk recordings from this excellent event from the Port folks. We're biased, but be sure to watch Abby's talk, "Portals and Platforms: Two Ps in a Pod?"
Dave Farley argues that comparing DevOps (with a focus on continuous delivery) and Platform Engineering is like comparing apples and oranges 🍏🍊
Colin Humphreys has broken everything that can be broken on multiple occasions when it comes to platform engineering. Learn more from this PlatformCon talk.
Podcasts
Abi Noda and the DX team compare and contrast various developer productivity metrics frameworks.
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