Platform Engineering Monthly — September 2024
Platform Engineering Monthly — September 2024
Welcome to the tenth edition of Platform Engineering Monthly, thanks for being here! Apologies for being a day late, I completely forgot “30 days has September”! Suggestions or ideas for the next edition? Let me know!
Platform Engineering Monthly - September 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
Platform Manifesto — Manuel Pais of Team Topologies fame has released a new Platform Manifesto, it’s short and worth a read.
Google Cloud launches Memorystore for Valkey, a 100% open-source key-value service — Google Cloud's is now also officially supporting Valkey to hedge against Redis’s licensing decision.
Elasticsearch is open source, again — On the theme of licensing, in a very strangely worded update, Elasticsearch returns to its open-source roots.
Spotify's approach to team autonomy — Abi Noda’s summary of Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify is well worth the read, particularly coming from a company as influential in this space as Spotify.
Gartner Magic Quadrants — The new quadrants have been released for 2024, of interest are the ones for Container Management (poor Canonical), DevOps Platforms and Analytics and BI Platforms
Kubernetes turns 10: a ditty dedicated to a decade of container orchestration — Celebrating a milestone in K8s, this ditty this needs to be experienced.
Docker Myths Debunked — Clarifies some basic but common misconceptions about Docker.
📅 Events
Conf42 Kube Native 2024 — September 26, 2024 - Online
KubeDay Colombia — October 9, 2024 in Medellín
Kubernetes Community Days UK — October 22, 2024 in London
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon - North America 2024 — November 12–14, 2024 in Salt Lake City
🎙️ Webinars
How to master your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) — September 24, 2024
How to build the perfect Internal Developer Platform with Humanitec and Port — September 25, 2024
How to drive a successful platform engineering initiative in the enterprise — October 1, 2024
Building an open-source platform for a 105-year-old company — October 2, 2024
🦮 Tutorials / How-tos
Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide — Understanding and preventing S3 bucket misconfigurations.
GCP to AWS Migration: Step-by-Step Guide 2024 - Cloudwards — A comprehensive guide for migrating from Google Cloud to AWS.
How to install plugins in Kubernetes and essential plugins to get started — Enhancing your Kubernetes setup with useful plugins using Krew.
📁 Interesting Projects
Reclaim the Stack — An open-source platform engineering stack, think self-hosted Heroku.
Pulumi ESC (Environments, Secrets, and Configuration) — A new project from Pulumi attempting to tame secrets and configuration complexity across all cloud infrastructure.
Winter Soldier — Scale down unnecessary workloads in Kubernetes.
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