Platform Engineering Monthly — April 2024
Platform Engineering Monthly — April 2024
Welcome to the fifth edition of Platform Engineering Monthly, thanks for being here! P.S. Suggestions or ideas for the next edition? Let me know!
📰 News
Hybrid Cloud Show — I'm co-hosting a new Podcast 🎉️! It’s called "Hybrid Cloud Show" under the Late Night Linux family of podcasts. My co-hosts and I talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between.
Why AWS Supports Valkey | AWS Open Source Blog — The major cloud players (and Oracle) are backing this Redis fork off the back of its recent licence changes. AWS gave a fairly open run down of its commitment to Valkey.
Google Cloud Next 2024 wrap up | Google Cloud Blog — 218 announcements, 53 mentions of AI, 47 mentions of Gemini. It doesn't take a genius to spot the theme of this year’s event.
Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU | Google Cloud Blog — Not a lot of tangible info right now, but anything that can reduce the power usage and environmental impact of data-centres has to be celebrated.
App Hub: Organize & manage cloud applications at scale | Google Cloud Blog — Managing complex workloads in the Cloud is often still a fragmented, cognitively demanding task for engineering. App Hub looks like Google is making a start at reducing the overhead and is a welcome addition to Google Cloud.
What does a platform engineer do and is it the role for you? | The Sun — I’ve included this article because well, it's the Sun, a British tabloid newspaper with a less than stellar reputation. If anything is a sign Platform Engineering has arrived, it's this.
🧑🎓 Case Studies / Papers
What Do Developers Want From AI — Interesting insights into how engineers want to work with AI, and it could be some very helpful research if you intend to roll out GenAI tools in your organisation. As usual, Abi Noda’s analysis is here.
📅 Events
Fast Flow Conference 2024 — Sep 10, 2024 in London, UK (Early bird tickets here)
Platmosphere — May 14, 2024 in Milan, Italy
KCD 2024 — May 22, 2024 in New York
Platform Orchestrator: The platform engineering game changer — May 7, 2024
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All the platform’s a stage: A Shakespearean journey of a platform — May 14, 2024
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Five years of Team Topologies: Reflections and predictions for the future — May 16, 2024 at 7 pm GMT
Platform as a Safety Net — May 23, 2024 at 7 pm GMT
Build a Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) in four phases — May 28, 2024 at 7pm GMT
🦮 Tutorials / How-tos
Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda | How Slack fully automates deploys and anomaly detection with Z-scores | Sean Mcllroy (Slack) — Podcast on how Slack is doing alerting. It was a refreshingly open and honest take on the whole topic, worth a listen!
Your Engineering Organization Is too Expensive - The New Stack — Great piece on spiralling engineering costs but also how a lot of companies are or are going to be embracing Platform Engineering in the coming years, with some excellent advice on how to get started and avoid the common pitfalls.
Build APIs using OpenAPI, the AWS CDK and AWS Solutions Constructs | AWS DevOps Blog - How to efficiently build and manage robust REST APIs using OpenAPI, AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), and AWS Solutions Constructs, streamlining the entire development process from definition to deployment.
📁 Interesting Projects
chaos-mesh: A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes — Need more chaos in your Kubernetes cluster? This looks like a very well engineered solution, and it is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) incubating project, so should be reasonably well-supported in the future!
📚 Readers Corner
Remote Team Interactions Workbook: Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working — Building on Team Topologies, this workbook explores and guides the reader through various aspects of team-first remote working.
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