Welcome to the second 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
Our very own Cat Morris provides guidance for building platforms in the real world of legacy apps, large systems, and complex infrastructure.
Abi Noda from DX breaks down "Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify" by researchers at the Blekinge Institute of Technology.
Eilon Ashkenazi argues that enhancing the developer experience has become critical for staying competitive as software systems become more complex.
Tech News
Engineers from TikTok have announced a new tool named Sparo to help deal with the problems associated with using monorepos.
Todd Weiss from The New Stack explores why adopting a platform engineering strategy is only the start of the process.
Our summary of the awesome Fast Flow Conf (Team Topologies) event that occurred last week.
Presentations and Video
This is the recording of Manuel Pais' Fast Flow Conf keynote, which focused on improving customer value delivery.
In this QCon London talk, Pia Nilsson and Mike Lewis explain how the Backstage plugin system integrates disparate pieces of functionality.
This QCon NY 2023 talk from Charity Majors still lives rent-free in our heads! Charity discusses how platform engineering teams differ from others, and outlines traps.
Podcasts and Webinars
Cory O'Daniel from Massdriver chats about all things cloud with Brian Grant, one of the Kubernetes co-creators.
In this episode, Purnima Padmanabhan, the general manager of Tanzu at Broadcom, talks with Coté about the evolution of DevOps and platform engineering.
David Flanagan discusses using programming languages to describe Kubernetes resources, sharing constructs to deploy Kubernetes resources, and making Kubernetes resources testable and policy-driven.
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