Welcome to the second August round-up of the most important platform engineering news! As we head into a holiday weekend here in the UK, 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
Colin Humphreys shares his experience from twenty years of working in platform engineering and ten years of building Platforms as a Product.
At a Portal Talks 2024 session, leaders from three organizations answered some key questions about how internal developer portals are used in real life.
Learn how to optimize platform engineering with effective “vendor engineering” vendor management strategies, focusing on technical fit and business alignment.
Tech News
The ever-informative Hazel Weakly shares a thought-provoking LinkedIn post about platform abstractions and implementations.
DavidW has created a comprehensive list and a guide for getting started with several key DevOps and platform engineering tools.
Carlo Beschi shared his experiences conducting DORA surveys in organizations ranging from ASOS to Treatwell.
Presentations and Video
We are big fans of Gregor Hohpe at Syntasso, and this recording of his QCon London talk is worth watching by software and platform engineers.
A summary of our recent webinar with Sarah Wells and Paula Kennedy. We explored the pivotal role of leadership in enabling app development teams to accelerate delivery, mitigate risks, and scale effectively.
This LeadDev panel explored what a modern DevOps culture looks like and how your teams can use it to their advantage.
Podcasts and Webinars
Hannah Foxwell shares her journey in the DevOps community, emphasizing the importance of continuous delivery, psychological safety and inclusive leadership in engineering practice.
Abby Bangser and Michael Chenetz dive into the complexities of modern software development and the world of cloud-first platform engineering.
Sarah Wells helped the Financial Times move from 12 to 20,000 software releases annually. In this episode of The New Stack Makers, she discusses how it happened and what's needed to make such digital transformations work.
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