Welcome to the first September 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
This fantastic article explores the platform pain points felt by DoorDash's developers and infrastructure teams and then outlines a solution they built to address these issues for Kafka-as-a-Service.
On DevOps.com, Paula explores how organizations can level up the value of their internal platforms without massively expanding their platform teams.
Brian Grant was the original lead architect of Kubernetes and its declarative model. In this Medium article, he explores the "claim" model in depth. This is a useful concept for all platform engineers to understand.
Tech News
The New York Times has over 1,000 developers who used a "chaotic mix of tools and deployment environments". This The New Stack article explores how the organisation adopted platform engineering.
The Syntasso team shared their recommendations for the top five platform engineering books for 2024.
This detailed Medium article from the Klaviyo team explores how they migrated services from "Klaviyo’s legacy Kubernetes platform, to our new spiffy, well-managed platform."
Presentations and Video
A superb GOTO Book Club interview with living legends in the software space, Gregor Hohpe and James Lewis.
The title may be somewhat clickbaity, but exploring Team Topologies and implementing organisational strategies is interesting.
Hannah Foxwell shares her nightmares about people management, recounts some of her mistakes, and shares the lessons she's learned along the way. This is useful information for anyone leading platform engineering teams.
Podcasts and Webinars
In this episode of the platform engineering podcast, Cory interviews Adrian Cockroft, a pioneering technologist who played a crucial role in Netflix's transition to cloud computing and microservices architecture.
Malte Ubl discusses the future of infrastructure management with "Framework-defined Infrastructure (FdI)", an evolution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
How does Platform Engineering work in public sectors? The Platformers Community explore the state of the platform in the Norwegian government.
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