Platform Engineering Monthly — October 2024
Welcome to the eleventh edition of Platform Engineering Monthly! Thanks for being here! Suggestions or ideas for the next edition? Let me know!
Platform Engineering Monthly - October 2024 Edition
Welcome to the latest edition of Platform Engineering Monthly, thanks for being here! P.S. Suggestions or ideas for the next edition? Let me know!
📰 News
AWS and Azure are At Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner — As budgets get tighter and companies re-evaluate their cloud strategy, big savings can be found if you’re willing to (and have the people power) to take complexity in-house.
Announcing the 2024 DORA report | Google Cloud Blog - The 10th annual DORA report has been released, and no surprises AI, Platform Engineering, Continuous Improvement and Developer Experience are all on the uptick.
AWS's Valkey Play: When a Fork Becomes a Price Cut - Last Week in AWS Blog — AWS has slashed the price of Valkey, making it a cost-saving, drop-in replacement for Redis. Looks like a smart play by AWS to position Valkey as the defacto Redis successor.
Dominoes Pizza Terraform Provider | Terraform Registry — I mean, I can’t think of a better use-case for terraform.
Platforms Engineering - Justin Garrison — It’s often easy to get sucked into the Platform Engineering solves everything hype, but this line is the reality for a lot of Platform Engineering teams without them actually acknowledging it: “If your work is being funded by anyone that’s not a development team then developers aren’t your customers.”
Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available | AWS News Blog — If this can automate the “type delete to really delete the thing”, it’s the greatest AWS innovation all year.
What three experiments tell us about Copilot’s impact on productivity — Loads of interesting insights, it appears there are big gains in using AI to learn better rather than having AI do your job for you.
📅 Events
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon - North America 2024 (Plus some tips for first-time visitors) — November 12–14, 2024 in Salt Lake City
Microsoft Ignite — November 19–21, 2024 in Chicago (and online)
AWS Re:Invent — December 2 – 6, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada
PlatformCon 2025 has been announced (with two PlatformCon Live Days in NY/London) — June 23-27, 2025
🎙️ Webinars
Why you need a Minimum Viable Platform (and how to start) (Mallory Haigh, Humanitec) — November 5, 2024
Platform Engineering for Managers (Droga Architekta IT, Krzysztof Halasa) — November 6, 2024
Fireside Chat on Cultivating High-Performance Teams (OpsLevel, Abi Noda) — November 6, 2024
GraphQL Summit Virtual (Apollo GraphQL) — November 7, 2024
Everything your manager needs to know about platform engineering (Krzysztof Hałasa, khalasa.com) — November 7, 2024
Platform Engineering Executive Roundtable during Microsoft Ignite, Chicago (Rickey Zachary, Thoughtworks; Luca Galante, Humanitec) — November 21, 2024
Platform Engineering Executive Roundtable during AWS re: Invent, Las Vegas (Kaspar Von Grünberg, Humanitec; Rickey Zachary, Thoughtworks) — December 3, 2024
🦮 Tutorials / How-tos
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide - The New Stack — Offloading DB management to the cloud is often preferred, but if you have good reasons to run them in-house, this guide is a great primer.
Docker Best Practices: Using Tags and Labels to Manage Docker Image Sprawl | Docker — The sprawl is real, what’s especially helpful here is the OCI have provided a list of recommended tags you can use to narrow down your set of “allowable” tags.
📁 Interesting Projects
ishantanu/awesome-kubectl-plugins — A curated list of kubectl plugins
tilt-dev/tilt — Simplifies the K8s dev loop. Tilt watches your code, builds container images, and deploys them automatically to your K8s cluster.
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