Platform Engineering Monthly — December 2024
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of Platform Engineering Monthly! I’m sending this one a little bit later. This way, people can start the new year back at work with the latest Platform Engineering news! Suggestions or ideas for the next edition? Let me know!
👋 Just a reminder, I co-host a podcast on cloud technology at Hybrid Cloud Show, if you’re interested in these newsletters it’s definitely worth a listen. 🙏
📰 News
Is Your Internal Developer Platform Missing Orchestration? - The New Stack — Interesting piece on the challenges of focusing too much on portals and the big day 2 challenges Platform Engineering Teams are facing.
Introducing the DX Core 4 - by Abi Noda — DX is introducing a new set of metrics that aim to provide a holistic set of measurements cutting across things like DORA, SPACE, etc. Benchmark summaries are here.
Why we, as knowledge workers, should take care of work-life balance | CNCF — It’s a new year, I felt like it was a good time to share this article from the CNCF on work-life balance, based on Cal Newport’s writing.
Developer Productivity in 2025: More AI, but Mixed Results - The New Stack — Jennifer Riggins looks to 2025 and what we can expect. More AI and the challenges AI generated code is introducing and what engineers actually want from it.
And that’s a wrap! | AWS News Blog — Jeff Barr is leaving the AWS news blog after 20 years!
📅 Events
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe | LF Events — April 1-4, 2025 in London
Including Platform Engineering Day - Europe — April 1, 2025 in London
SREday - Site Reliability Engineering conferences
February 28, 2025 in NYC
March 27-28, 2025 in London
QCon London 2025 — April 7–11, 2025 in London
🎙️ Webinars
Backstage: Platform engineering dream or nightmare — January 14, 2025
How enterprises drive successful platform engineering initiatives — January 21, 2025
Bad abstractions: 5 practical rules for building successful platforms — January 28, 2025
Minimum Viable Platform: Zero to hero - February 4, 2025
🦮 Tutorials / How-tos
Understanding k0s: a lightweight Kubernetes distribution for the community | CNCF — How to use k0s, the single binary distribution of Kubernetes!
k9s - manage your Kubernetes cluster and it’s objects like a pro! | CNCF — A nice visual guide to using k9s to interact with Kubernetes.
📁 Interesting Projects
aptakube/kubespec.dev: Kubernetes Spec Explorer — An interactive explorer for Kubernetes resources spec. A few things included:- Tree view with schema, type and description of all native resources
Cyphernetes — A bit of a theme this month, Cyphernetes lets you interact with Kubernetes using SQL.
Have insights, stories, projects, feedback, or tips on platform engineering you'd like to share? Drop me a line by replying to this email for a chance to be featured in our next edition, or connect with me on LinkedIn.