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    Karolina Junčytė

    08/03/2022, 11:30 AM
    Engineers: Is GitOps holding you back more than it pushes you forward? @Greg DeArment from Palantir will talk about their experience and will explain how Palantir’s Apollo rethought its approach to GitOps in order to enable Palantir at scale. Join this meetup here 👈. After a 30 minutes talk, there will be 15 minutes for Q&A. Don’t miss out!
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    Luca Galante

    08/04/2022, 10:20 AM
    Hi folks! We are pumped to see this community growing so rapidly. Almost a month ago @Karolina Junčytė encouraged you to share your :twitter: and :linkedin: accounts to your Slack profile. Why don’t we also add our job titles?! @Daniel Li goes first. I’m following 🛎️ There’s no doubt you can find many useful connections out here. Make the best out of it! 🚀
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    Max Koerbaecher

    08/05/2022, 8:37 AM
    Hey there! I’m Max, co-organizer of the Kubernetes Community Days Munich. Just wanted to say hi! and would love to point out to our community event on October this year https://community.cncf.io/kcd-munich/ Everyone is welcome, and our CFP is still open! (Also we are looking von Sponsors 😅)
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    Luca Galante

    08/05/2022, 10:41 AM
    Some of you have been asking us for the slides from our PlatformCon speakers. We couldn’t get a hold of all of them yet, but here’s the first bundle of 32 speaker slides 👈. You’ll find there presentations of @Manuel Pais (co-author Team Topologies), @Taras Mankovski, @Nicki Watt, @Natan Yellin, @Maryann Bell, @Galo Navarro, @Nigel Kersten and many others. Save this link, so you can keep them all and review them once again. Also, don’t forget you can always rewatch all the talks here 👈! Enjoy the good stuff 🙂
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    Natan Yellin

    08/05/2022, 10:48 AM
    Nice 🙂
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    Tim Fischer

    08/08/2022, 9:43 AM
    Both are owned by Microsoft, but a never-ending question - which is better - GitHub or Azure DevOps? Both are powerful tools for development teams that need to facilitate communication and manage projects. However, my vote goes to GitHub. Why? Mostly because GitHub helps projects be the most accessible to the open-source community. However, there are many other high(low)lights here and I found most of them covered in this blog post. Let’s discuss it here in the comments. Pros and cons, your preferences?
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    Shlomi Benita

    08/08/2022, 1:36 PM
    👋 Hi everyone! I'm Shlomi, DevOps Architect at CyberArk. For the last 3 years, I'm focused on building an internal development platform, it is a long journey. I wrote a blog post about the failures and the lessons we learned from this journey that you might be interested to read. https://medium.com/cyberark-engineering/5-lessons-for-a-successful-internal-development-platform-be4346be721e
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    Karolina Junčytė

    08/08/2022, 1:42 PM
    A colleague and I discussed the benefits and drawbacks of moving from on-prem to the cloud. I think this article does a good job of highlighting the benefits of a successful migration, like: • Constantly up-to-date backup • Faster deployment • Always accessing up-to-date information • Flexibility to scale • Little to no upfront costs for the retailer • Latest tech used Though, we’re still curious about the pain points that arise in the process. Anyone has any thoughts (or solid resources) they can share?
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    Luca Galante

    08/09/2022, 8:47 AM
    We wanted to keep the momentum from PlatformCon 2022 going… So we’re serving up a new, community-driven newsletter about all things platform engineering. Happy to share the freshly baked Platform Weekly newsletter! 🥐🥐🥐 The aim is to deliver the freshest cloud native and platform engineering goods (aka news🤭) to your inbox each week. Stay hungry (for news), stay crunchy! 🥐
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    Paula Kennedy

    08/09/2022, 4:38 PM
    Hi Folks! 👋 I saw that @Max Koerbaecher mentioned Kubernetes Community Days coming soon to Munich so I wanted to also do a shout out for Kubernetes Community Days UK! 🇬🇧 It's taking place 22nd and 23rd November in-person in London at CodeNode (more details here - kcduk.io) and we're expecting around 300 people from areas such as engineering, software dev, security, leadership and more. Our CfP is currently open (closes 19th August) and you can submit here: https://kcd.smapply.io/prog/kcd_uk_2022/. If anyone is has not spoken before and wants any help with ideas or the submission, please let me know and I'd be happy to help. We're also looking for sponsors who are keen to connect with the Kubernetes community in the UK, sponsor options are here:
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    Luca Galante

    08/10/2022, 4:05 PM
    We updated our little home platformengineering.org with a some new designs, go check them out. We also wanted to make it easier to submit talks for anyone interested, link here 👉 https://zemgxob64xi.typeform.com/to/LM5NfS2t?typeform-source=platformengineering.org
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    Soren Martius

    08/11/2022, 8:35 AM
    HashiCorp 2022 State of Cloud Strategy Survey https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud Very interesting read & numbers!
    86% Rely On Cloud Platform Teams
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    Khaled Ezzughayyar

    08/11/2022, 12:13 PM
    I work from Home and a co-working space
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    Jeremyah Corner

    08/11/2022, 12:54 PM
    Without my glasses the new slack icon looks like a mad circus clown
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    Jeremyah Corner

    08/11/2022, 12:55 PM
    Could just be me
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    Luca Galante

    08/11/2022, 5:01 PM
    Hey hey live with @Natan Yellin here! K8s CPU antipatterns 👉

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9_9iaVszpM▾

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    Aeris

    08/16/2022, 8:43 AM
    Hello lovely humans! I wrote this recap article from the New Stack based on my favorite talks from PlatformCon. Here are some of the main trends I learned from all of you: • For a lot of engineering teams, true DevOps --> too much cognitive load on developers. 🧠 Platform teams can alleviate this by building golden paths, which suggest tools and frameworks to use for day-to-day tasks, but maintain developers’ freedom to deviate from the path where needed. • Platform as a product ftw. 💪🏽 Platforms that lack user buy-in, aren’t designed to address the needs of its users and don’t evolve their capabilities over time are likely to fail. 📉 • When it comes to finding the right level of abstraction, we see two main directions that are different but not mutually exclusive. ↔️ On one hand, there are more code-based, declarative approaches inspired by GitOps workflows. On the other hand, there are UI-based solutions. Big thanks to everyone who shared their platform stories + expertise. 🙂 Super excited to see what y’all come up with for PlatformCon 2023! https://thenewstack.io/what-we-learned-at-platformcon/
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    Elyasaf Boim

    08/16/2022, 4:32 PM
    Great overview :) Specially how SRE & Platform come into play together https://www.getport.io/blog/platform-engineering
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    Karolina Junčytė

    08/17/2022, 12:46 PM
    🎤 One of the better podcasts I’ve listened to recently. A discussion on how complex and tough building internal platforms can be. It also touches on how important it is that IDP workflows are native to the developer experience. Highly recommend! https://changelog.com/shipit/65
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    Luca Galante

    08/17/2022, 3:16 PM
    One of the most debated questions when talking about IDP is figuring out the right level of abstraction for an engineering team’s delivery workflows. Join the webinar with Signicat’s @Jon Skarpeteig tomorrow where we will chat about: • Challenges, design goals and how to deal with them • What worked when building an Internal Developer Platform at Signicat • Mistakes they made, how they tackled them and how you can avoid them After a 30 minutes talk, there will be 15 minutes for Q&A. We’d like to encourage you to submit your questions in advance.
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    Luca Galante

    08/18/2022, 12:50 PM
    Week 2️⃣ of Platform Weekly, already over 1k subscribers, amazing! Second issue is out, go read it 🥐and let me know here what you think about it. Btw we really want this to be a community newsletter so if you want to collaborate or have ideas to contribute, feel free to submit your proposal here.
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    Oliver Lewis

    08/18/2022, 4:02 PM
    I sometimes find it difficult to explain the difference between cloud and cloud native for folks coming from the old guard. Kubernetes co-creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda go straight to the point in

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    and break down the distinction between cloud and cloud native. You might find it useful as well.
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    Luca Galante

    08/18/2022, 5:01 PM
    Discussing the right level of abstraction for your platform with @Jon Skarpeteig, join us!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc_zhLVSSVs▾

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    Jon Skarpeteig

    08/18/2022, 5:52 PM
    If any other questions come to mind, please don't be shy about reaching out 🙂
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    Karolina Junčytė

    08/22/2022, 9:46 AM
    A real platform veteran 💪 and former lead of the Walmart DevOps Dojo @Bryan Finster will join the webinar tomorrow to 💬 about: • Why internal platforms are a keystone of transformation • How platforms can make or break organizational improvement efforts • How a well-designed platform can enable developer freedom with enterprise guardrails This talk will be expanding on his PlatformCon talk and Bryan promised to answer questions from the community after. Join the webinar 👈
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    Naya Kumar

    08/23/2022, 6:19 AM
    Anyone here uses Podman? I read this article about Podman vs Docker and I found it interesting that Podman is daemonless. Want to hear opinions from someone who’s using Podman in their companies.
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    Luca Galante

    08/23/2022, 12:45 PM
    The IDP space is evolving rapidly. In order to build a dynamic platform that can handle both app and infra configs dynamically, you need to have a Platform Orchestrator at the core of it. @Kaspar recently wrote an article on our evolving understanding on the topic. It’s a good read, curious what folks here think about it.
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    Lights On

    08/24/2022, 12:24 AM
    #intros Hello everyone. I’m new near.
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    Lights On

    08/24/2022, 12:25 AM
    #general has anyone implemented composer 2 using terraform?
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    Manish Khadka

    08/24/2022, 2:31 AM
    Hi Team, The company I am currenlty working on a have dev/stage/prod environment. however a recent requirement came up to setup UAT environment We do have, rds (postgres), redis, mongodb, elastic.co as well . They are asking to deploy the UAT environment on the production eks cluster itself, but I am resistent to that. In my mind, the UAT environment setup has to on demand, thinking in future for the disaster recovery scenario How do you proceed with that? How do you actually setup UAT environment?
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Manish Khadka

08/24/2022, 2:31 AM
Hi Team, The company I am currenlty working on a have dev/stage/prod environment. however a recent requirement came up to setup UAT environment We do have, rds (postgres), redis, mongodb, elastic.co as well . They are asking to deploy the UAT environment on the production eks cluster itself, but I am resistent to that. In my mind, the UAT environment setup has to on demand, thinking in future for the disaster recovery scenario How do you proceed with that? How do you actually setup UAT environment?
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Adarsh Shah

08/24/2022, 2:35 AM
Yes having UAT as an ephemeral environment so that you can tear it down when not needed and provision it back when needed with latest code is an ideal setup. Do you have automation to provision new environments on demand & then tear them down when not needed? Having both Prod & UAT on the same EKS cluster seems risky.
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Neil Millard

08/24/2022, 7:04 AM
For sure, do not mix Test with Prod. You might end up with test data in the live system, or worse, live data in the test system
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Kaspar

08/24/2022, 1:08 PM
You'd likely need to enable dynamic coniguration management. Check this. The trick is to separate env agnostic from specific elements using something like paws.sh for instance.
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Daniel Serodio

08/26/2022, 8:36 PM
@Kaspar have you (or Humanitec) worked with paws.sh already? It looks like a good idea, but still very alpha
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Kaspar

08/29/2022, 11:38 AM
Yeah, we're using it internally for a while now. There is still some licence stuff for CNCF happening but I think it's open sourcing in September. You can write the contributors and they add you to the repo for now. @Daniel Serodio
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Daniel Serodio

08/29/2022, 9:21 PM
Thanks, this information would be a good addition to the paws.sh website (or GitHub README)
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