Welcome to the sixteenth edition of Platform Engineering Monthly! Suggestions or ideas for the next edition? Let me know!
๐ฐ News
You Can No Longer Base Your Government and Society on US Clouds With the recent political climate, a LOT of articles have popped up on people moving or advocating to move from US based Cloud Services.
The 'Why Azure is Shit' Feed | Mastodon โ At Day 420 (at time of writing), you have to respect that level of consistency in a product.
IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp | IBM Newsroom โ A big acquisition with potentially little fanfare. Is this IBM/Red Hat trying to scoop up ex-VMware users?
โItโs Not Kubernetes. Itโs What It Does.โ | CNCF โ The CNCF equivalent of โyou're holding your phone wrongโ.
The Missing Piece in Platform Engineering: Recognising Producers | The New Stack โ A fresh perspective on stakeholder roles in platform teams.
Scaling Platform Building: Unique vs Common | CNCF โ A thoughtful dive into balancing org-specific features with reusable platform components.
๐ฆฎ Tutorials / How-tos
Zero-Downtime Deployments on AWS EKS | Glasskube โ Best practices to minimise deployment disruption in EKS environments.
Step-by-Step Guide to Kubernetes Troubleshooting | CNCF โ A methodical approach to finding and fixing your K8s issues.
Handling Billions of Invocations: AWS Lambda Best Practices | AWS โ A deep dive into scaling serverless.
๐ Interesting Projects
Yoke: IaC for Kubernetes | xeiaso.net โ A new take on Infrastructure-as-Code, still early, but intriguing.
Introducing K0rdent: Kubernetes IDPs Simplified | CNCF โ Yet another stab at the golden path problem. Worth a look.
Kubescape Graduates to CNCF Incubation | CNCF โ Security visibility for Kubernetes continues to mature.
Fly-to-Podman | GitHub โ A migration tool from Docker apps to Podman. Niche but clever.
Git-Who | GitHub โ Tidy little CLI for figuring out who changed what. Basically git blame, but better.
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Events
Open Source SecurityCon 2025 Announced | CNCF โ Mark your calendar: November 10, 2025.
Platform Engineering Day | KubeCon EU 2025 Co-located Event - April 1st, 2025
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe โ London, April 1stโ4th, 2025
What to do around the KubeCon London venue | CNCF Guide
PlatformCon 2025 โ June 23rd- June 27th โ Still a ways off, but keep it in mind.
๐๏ธ Webinars
Dollars and DevOps: The Business Case for Internal Developer Platforms
Natan Yellin (Robusta.dev)
๐ April 8, 2025 | ๐ 7:00 PM CET
How to prove your platform's ROI.From Friction to Flow: Developer Experience with Coder & DX
Nicky Pike & Justin Reock
๐ April 15, 2025 | ๐ 7:00 PM CET
Improving onboarding and reliability via better tooling.Backstage Backlash: What Went Wrong?
Kaspar von Grรผnberg (Humanitec)
๐ April 16, 2025 | ๐ 7:00 PM CET
Lessons from failed platform launches.Platform Leadership 101: Why 67% of Platforms Fail
Mallory Haigh, Platform Engineering Workshop Host
๐ April 22, 2025 | ๐ 7:00 PM CET
Common pitfalls and how to avoid them.
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