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Platform as a Runtime - the Next Step in Platform Engineering
As systems become larger and more complex we need to take the concepts of platform engineering to a higher level – to the code level – by creating platforms and abstractions that will reduce cognitive load, help simplify and accelerate software development, and allow for easy maintenance and upgrades to the platform. Let’s move from “platform” to “Platform as a Runtime”.
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Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering
Companies increasingly turn to platform engineering to help scale their development teams and increase developer experience for engineer efficiency. In this virtual panel, we’ll discuss how teams build platforms, set others up for success, work with developers who use their platform, measure their progress, and adapt to new challenges.
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Step One to Successfully Building Your Platform: Building It Together
You may feel that investing in an internal platform is a win, but the business may need more convincing. This article covers how to frame your case in a way that the business can understand and support.
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Hard-Won Lessons from the Trenches: Failure Modes of Platform Engineering — and How to Avoid Them
Platform Engineering is a hot topic with many orgs hoping to reap the benefits. However, it is easy to go astray. This article reviews the common pitfalls of building a platform and how to avoid them.
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Adopting Low Code/No Code: Six Fitnesses to Look for
When selecting a no-code/low-code platform, six key fitnesses should be examined: purpose fit, cost fit, ops fit, user fit, use-case fit, and organization fit. The IT team should be heavily involved in this decision as they play a pivotal role in helping citizen developers with platform adoption.
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DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – June 2022
This article summarizes how we see the "cloud computing and DevOps" space in 2022, which focuses on fundamental infrastructure and operational patterns, the realization of patterns in technology frameworks, and the design processes and skills that a software architect or engineer must cultivate.
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Sustaining Fast Flow with Socio-Technical Thinking
To sustain a fast flow of changes over long periods of time, organizations address both the social and technical, socio-technical, aspects of reducing complexity. Examples are incentivising good technical practices to keep code maintainable, architecting systems to minimize dependencies and maximize team motivation, and leveraging platforms to preclude whole categories of infrastructure blockers.
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Building an Effective Digital Platform: Adam Hansrod on the Benefits, Challenges, and Approach
A successful digital platform can improve time to market, increase revenue, reduce operational costs, and improve innovation. An effective platform is one that is differentiating, designed as a product, and is opinionated. InfoQ sat down with Adam Hansrod to discuss how organizations can structure themselves to create effective digital platforms.
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Lessons Learned about Developer Experience from the Platform Adoption Metrics @ Naranja
With the intent of improving the product-based approach to their internal platform, Naranja has implemented an automated metrics solution that captures essential figures that describe how their teams are doing in terms of adoption, up-to-dateness and applicability of the solutions their Developer Experience creates. This enables better collaboration on their technology roadmap.
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Platform Engineering as a (Community) Service
Nicki Watt shares how successful platform engineering initiatives start by adjusting their thinking to centre around people and communities, and their experience consuming the platform, with examples.
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Kubernetes Is Not Your Platform, It's Just the Foundation
Manuel Pais discusses how many organizations see Kubernetes as "the" platform, rather than just a technical foundation for a true internal platform. Successful Kubernetes adoption requires thinking about the platform as a product and establishing product-like team structures and interactions to reduce cognitive load on development and other stream teams. Metrics can help guide the journey.
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Q&A with Galo Navarro on Building an Effective Platform Team
Galo Navarro discusses how to build an effective platform team and scale it to support a large organization. InfoQ recently sat down with Navarro to discuss his approach for building a strong platform team including setting a clear mandate and balancing autonomy of product teams with clear standards.