Articles and resources relating to Platform Engineering. As a SysAdmin, SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps or Software Engineer you might have come across this term but are not quite sure where it fits in the modern world. Here are a set of resources that can help. Many of the links below come from:
- The Rise of Platform Engineering Forming a platform engineering team is one way an organization could begin modernizing their engineering culture
- The top 10 fallacies in platform engineering Be prepared to sell your platform internally, sometimes the nice way, sometimes the hard way. Humans naturally resist change and you need to anticipate all the cultural questions that will come up as you will push to roll out your IDP.
- Reddit SRE: We’ve spent months building this platform, devs hate it, help me understand why
- Reddit DevOps: We’ve spent months building this platform, devs hate it, help me understand why
- The “Paved Road” PaaS for Microservices at Netflix: Yunong Xiao at QCon NY. The Netflix PaaS team attempts to provide a sensibly configured but customisable “paved road” platform for developers by offering standardised and compatible components, pre-assembling the platform, and by providing extensive automation and tooling.
- Full Cycle Developers at Netflix — Operate What You Build. “Operate what you build” puts the devops principles in action by having the team that develops a system also be responsible for operating and supporting that system
- SRE vs Platform Engineering. The SRE team works to deliver infrastructure for highly reliable applications, while the platform engineering team works to deliver infrastructure for rapid application development.
- Building for the 99% Developers. Once you deploy, you aren’t testing code anymore, you’re testing systems — complex systems made up of users, code, environment, infrastructure, and a point in time
- Developer Control Planes: A Platform Architect’s Point of View
- What’s Hot in Enterprise IT/VC HasiCorp Cloud-native tools
- Developer-Led Landscape: 2021 Edition