And that's the 🔥 discussion of the month!

👋 Hi everyone! EMEA Platforming Lead @ Red Hat here. Happy to be a part of this community.

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Hi all! A colleague of mine is conducting a survey on developer platforms and platform engineering. It takes about 5 min to fill out, and it would be great to get some community perspective. This blog post describes the hypothesis they are trying to validate/verify and has a link to the survey. Please take a look! https://www.eficode.com/blog/get-a-unique-snapshot-view-of-platform-engineering-today

Huh. Do y’all have any community norms or rules about DM spam?

Hi, I've seen lots of different perspectives on this so wondered about getting some opinions. With the platform as an internal product model, with the platform engineers working closely with stream aligned squads as a customer to truly understand their needs, how do your organisations manage in translating that into a single prioritised work stream (or dare I say, roadmap). How do you ensure its the teams real needs rather than just the loudest voice getting what they want?

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Hello

I would like to know how platform engineering skill-set differs from Devops engineers ? Does platform engineering requires you to have knowledge of backend programming?

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is this event happening? - https://www.meetup.com/platform-engineers-sf/events/288649604/ I don't see the exact location in the meetup page

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👋 Hi everyone!

Well done 👍👌

anyone going to NYC Tech Week?

What kind of background experience do you find to be the most valuable for someone transitioning into a platform engineering role?

👋 Hi everyone, I wanted to share with you an article I wrote over the weeken 🎯 In my latest article, I try to explain what is happening in the software market and how open source is essential for developers and companies https://medium.com/@fabrizio-cafolla/open-source-is-mainstream-and-a-new-era-is-on-the-horizon-f52c5c61ac89

Is google going to shut down more services? https://neilmillard.com/2022/10/09/google-stadia-shutting-down.html

https://platformengin-b0m7058.slack.com/archives/C02DF3KKNES/p1664989210238279?thread_ts=1664985996.574769&cid=C02DF3KKNES I have to disagree with a few things. It really depends on the company. If we are to follow the article’s classification of the three philosophies, my team and I are doing SRE, DevOps and Platform Engineering at the same time. I won’t talk about start-ups because we know how it goes there but in most large enterprises I’ve been, there is no clear distinction between SRE and DevOps always and when there was, SRE’s usually spent a lot more time in development alongside implementing reliability concepts and so forth.

Hi, setting up a Cloud Native Platform engineering labs for my company. Happy to join the community.

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Seems like this is the place to plug meetup / conferences!?! I’m giving a talk on Building an internal AWS platform with Crossplane next week https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/aws-cologne/events/286008376/. If you have time please stop by and say hello!