Welcome to the end-of-November round-up of the most interesting and important platform engineering news! We've included the top links for articles, technical news, videos, and podcasts from the platform engineering community. If you want to share a link, please reply to this email or contact us.
Articles
We share our highlights from KubeCon + PlatEngDay, including how platform engineering has crossed the chasm and why there is a focus on improving APIs, abstraction, and automation.
Abi Noda breaks down "Identifying Factors Contributing to “Bad Days” for Software Developers: A Mixed-Methods Study,” a new paper from Microsoft that examines what disrupts developers’ workdays.
Learn how Fastly's Platform Engineering team (now Foundation Engineering) explored ways to make their engineering teams more effective and efficient.
Tech News
The Headlamp integration in Backstage offers an embedded instance of Headlamp, enabling users to explore various Kubernetes components via its UI, including deployments, services, and configurations.
Red Hat has recently donated bootc, Buildah, Composefs, Podman, Podman Desktop and Skopeo to the CNCF.
The RedMonk folks comment on the recently released 2024 Accelerate State of DevOps (DORA) report and highlight some interesting and counterintuitive findings.
Presentations and Video
This week, we're highlighting talk tracks from the recent KubeCon NA event:
I've also included three of our favourite talks that the Syntasso team was involved in organising or presenting:
Podcasts and Webinars
Special guest Whitney Lee joins Darin and Viktor to highlight and comment on all of the happenings at KubeCon NA.
In this episode of Engineering Enablement, Brian Houck, Applied Scientist, Developer Productivity at Microsoft, covers SPACE, DORA, and some specific metrics the developer productivity research team is finding useful.
Hugo Santos joins Darin and Viktor to explore how Namespace Labs provides an ephemeral compute platform for development workflows.
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