Welcome to the February round-up of the essential platform engineering news. As we start the new year, we want to learn more about your top priority for your platform engineering efforts. Is it:
Finding time to explore new technologies?
Learning how to establish and lead platform teams?
Understanding how to build/buy/blend your way to creating a platform?
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Articles
Building an internal platform that serves your organisation’s unique needs is crucial to unlocking faster development cycles and leveraging cloud-native technologies. But how do you design a platform worth building?
Michael Liav continues with part 2 of his “How to Build a Platform Without Pulling Your Hair” series.
Engin Diri shares several “wish I had known that earlier” best practices for working with K8s. He believes knowing these could have saved him time, money, and headaches.
Tech News
The folks at Roadie are running a survey to help users, engineers, Backstage maintainers, plugin developers, and Platform teams find their way.
Ahmet discusses what they don't tell you about developing scalable and reliable Kubernetes controllers.
Steve Fenton argues that the days of building grand, unifying platforms are over. Here’s what to know about thin platforms and the future of platform engineering.
Presentations and Video
Ana Petkovska discusses creating platform teams, establishing the team API, engaging early adopters, easing adoption and providing a high-quality product.
Jennifer Davis explores strategies for deliberately refining processes, tools, and workflows to scale contributions to enhance developer experience and productivity.
Abby Bangser presents a demo of integrating Kratix and Port to create a complete internal developer platform. Kratix acts as a platform orchestrator, enabling you to build your platform as a product, and Port acts as a portal, providing a platform UI and excellent developer experience.
Podcasts and Webinars
In this episode, David Betts, leader of Twilio’s developer platform team, shares how Twilio leverages developer sentiment data to drive platform engineering initiatives, optimize Kubernetes adoption, and demonstrate ROI for leadership.
DevOps legend Patrick Debois joins The DevOps Paradox team to talk about what he has been doing over the past year with AI.
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