Welcome to the first August 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
This is an interesting post from the folks at Figma, who went all-in on their migration to Kubernetes.
John Cutler provides excellent commentary on a recent study by Atlassian and DX that determined that "69% of developers lose eight or more hours each week to inefficiencies."
The latest post on the Syntasso blog presents why continuous compliance is essential in today’s fast-paced software development environment.
Tech News
This is an interesting piece from Mike Vizard that discusses how "three quarters (76%) [of engineering leaders] report their organizations plan to invest more in developer experience within the next year.
Another interesting piece in the ongoing Docker Labs GenAI series explores whether LLMs are up to creating Dockerfiles.
Markus Eisele and the Red Hat team riff on a popular topic previously covered by the Google team.
Presentations and Video
Gartner explores how a small set of targeted metric frameworks can help software engineering teams better align delivery with business objectives.
In this talk, you will learn how to use Kratix to build durable and resilient platforms and how to fit Backstage into your platform architecture.
David Stenglein discusses the shift to a product model for internal platforms and how this benefits from people-centric tools like customer empathy and the new DevEx framework.
Podcasts and Webinars
In this podcast, Jessica Andersson, a longtime platform builder and leader, spoke about the role of platform engineering in empowering and enabling other teams.
Watch this recent LeadDev webinar recording that focused on navigating the complexities of platform engineering at scale, striking a balance between flexibility and governance, and developing a consistent onboarding process.
Corey O'Daniel from Massdriver chats with Mitchell about the intricacies of platform engineering, the history and evolution of Terraform, the advent of infrastructure as code, and the accompanying challenges.
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