Welcome to the second July round-up of the most important platform engineering news! We've included the top links for articles, technical news, videos, and podcasts from the platform engineering community. If you have questions or want to share a link, please reply to this email or contact us.
Articles
Writing at The New Stack, Jennifer Riggins explores how the online travel company Expedia performed a massive migration project affecting 6,000 developers — during the pandemic.
At QCon London, Jessica Andersson presented a case study of how a startup adopted platform engineering, including a discussion of her strategy and the actions taken by the platform team to gain developer adoption.
Based on a recent LinkedIn post and webinar, we explore using "progressive disclosure" within an internal developer platform (IDP) and portal to help manage cognitive load.
This case study explores how ZoomInfo aims to build a reliable system of end-to-end automated workflows and standardized resource management to enable an efficient software development life cycle.
Tech News
Golden templates make it easier to start with IaC and "deliver something that looks right with all the right pieces". Or, at least, that is the goal. Despite the strengths of golden templates, there are still issues to resolve.
The team at Syntasso recently introduced new features to Kratix to facilitate integration with both HashiCorp Cloud Platform and Terraform Enterprise. Now, platform engineers can "Promise" easy access to infrastructure on demand.
Spotify Portal's (Backstage-powered) Software Catalog is based on YAML files stored in each component’s repository. Portal’s built-in Catalog Wizard automates the tedious parts of adding components to the catalog.
Presentations and Video
Dive into the dynamic world of financial services and open source community building with James McLeod, NatWest Group Open Source Program Lead.
Join the Kubefirst team for a discussion on IDPs with guest Abby Bangser! The team demonstrated how Kratix can be combined with the GitOps Catalog to help build an effective Kubernetes-based platform.
In this thought-provoking InfoQ Dev Summit talk recording, Justin Sheehy discusses the dramatic developments in some areas of artificial intelligence and the need for software developers to use AI systems responsibly.
Podcasts and Webinars
In the latest episode of the DevOps Paradox podcast, Darin Hope and Viktor Farcic spoke with Daniel Bryant. They explored using the three-tier architecture model to build platforms and portals.
On the Platform Engineering YouTube channel, Kaspar von Grünberg discussed how portals like Backstage are complemented by platform backends (Platform Orchestrators) to ship an Internal Developer Platform.
On the latest Engineering Enablement podcast, Abi Noda is joined by Idan Gazit, Anna Sulkina, and Alix Melchy to discuss the impact of GenAI tools on developer productivity.
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