Welcome to the first October 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
Learn from a Fast Flow Conf panel of four platform advocates who explored how to apply a Platform as a Product mindset to your platform engineering strategy.
This new InfoQ emag focuses on building platforms, creating "golden paths", and cultivating developer experience.
Andy Burgin explores how developer experience (DevEx) goes beyond productivity and encompasses aspects like ease of use, collaboration, and empathy.
Tech News
Abby Bangser and Daniel Bryant explore the need for an "invisible glue" (or "intelligent glue") that connects platform components.
Camille Fournier discusses how "Platform Engineering done well" is more than configuration management and infrastructure provisioning.
Brian Grant, Kubernetes co-creator, continues his ITNEXT series exploring the future of infrastructure as code.
Presentations and Video
Sébastien Blanc explores various approaches to developer self-service and how to maintain guardrails.
Here are slides from Daniel's JAX London talk, which focused on building platforms as products and the technology required.
Cat Morris discusses creating an internal developer platform while building within a complex web of legacy systems and tools.
Podcasts and Webinars
The CNCF panel with Abby Bangser, Christophe Fargette, Piotr Kliczewski, and Valentina Rodriguez Sosa explores everything IDP.
In this episode, Darin and Viktor discuss Mahesh Balakrishnan's blog post “Three Laws of Software Complexity."
A podcast exploring strategies to tackle platform engineering challenges using Kratix, an open-source project and framework.
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