Platform engineering links

I found an amazing thread the other day about a concern that sits between operations / sre and product engineers. Platform engineering. (Developer experience, platform, tools?) I have a bit of reading to do! :) This stuff is super interesting to me!

• A twitter thread that links to many interesting posts
• Dev control planes (video)

• Holistic dev experience (video)

• The Rise of Platform Engineering
• The top 10 fallacies in platform engineering
• What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #262
• Developer-Led Landscape: 2021 Edition

• Developer Control Planes: A Platform Builder’s Point of View

• Developer Control Planes: A Platform Architect’s Point of View
  • Full cycle developers in the netflix sense
  • Push responsibility of owning / running prod left towards developers
  • Kubernetes shop from early days (2017ish)
  • Developers don’t get direct access to production but they have a gitops like workflow with pull requests, reviews for changes, multiple eyes on deck before acceptance
  • There is a team that is focused on the boundary between devs and the platform - documentation, onboarding, examples, tech talks, learning + improvement
    • They provide real world examples of how their teams solved specific problems using their platform tools
    • They have a golden path base project to encourage people to start with a known stack but allow teams to choose their own tools
    • They consider tool sprawl a problem? (Seems like a conflict with former)
  • They started with rails, ported to nodejs and are now running golang :/