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!

Hi everyone, Harness are hosting their Annual Conference, ‘Unscripted’, which will include talks from the DevOps team at Netflix, Wells Fargo and Booking.com on how to build out Developer Platforms, as well as a range of other topics including; GitOps, Governance around CI/CD and a Keynote from their CEO, Jyoti Bansal You can sign up to the link here: https://www.unscriptedconf.io/register-page This is a totally free event on the 16th November in San Francisco, but all talks will also be virtual, we’d love to see some of you there!

Hi everyone, change data capture (CDC) database replication is so often misunderstood, with teams taking the choice between CDC and batch too lightly when it comes to analytics applications. I had a blast collaborating on this article with John Kutay of Striim about the true downstream positive impact of CDC as well as the technical implications to keep in mind. Take a read! https://towardsdatascience.com/when-change-data-capture-wins-271875e3df1a

What is opinion about serverless in this group? 😄 (sharing mine in thread)

Live with Lambros, he's showing how they built the IDP at Wise (Transferwise)

👋 Hi everyone! Is this where the questions after the Wise presentation is to be held?

👋 Hallo zusammen!

👋 Welcome Giulia

What are Cloudify’s 3 Steps Approach to self-service environment management? Watch Anthony Critelli, Senior Solutions Architect will discuss our 3 steps approach to self-service environment management using the Cloudify platform. 1. Import existing resources 2. Create an environment topology 3. Provision and continuous update You can find more details in our documentation: https://docs.cloudify.co/latest/trial_getting_started/examples/eaas/ Or in our Github community: https://github.com/cloudify-cosmo

https://www.contino.io/insights/platform-engineering Not sure if someone shared it here already or not, but big news here for the users of kubecolor, the kubectl wrapper that adds cool colors :) Nice to see it has some cool patches applied.

Hey platformers! I wanted to let you know about a new podcast made for engineers like you: Always an Engineer. It’s hosted by Asim Razzaq, former head of platform engineering at PayPal, now founder/CEO of Yotascale. He’s sharing personal experiences and lessons learned from 20+ years of being an engineer and leading engineering teams. New episodes weekly, less than 15 minutes each! The trailer + first 4 episodes are available now: Ep. 1: How heroes kill culture Ep. 2: Winning the hearts and minds of engineers Ep. 3: Why software estimation sucks Ep. 4: Software engineers hate meetings for a reason Listen and subscribe on your favorite podcast platform. Rate and review. And let us know what you want to hear! https://yotascale.com/always-an-engineer-podcast/ #alwaysanengineer

Hi Platform Engineering Community! My name is Vernon and I work with our Product Marketing teams at LaunchDarkly. I've been attempting to find more platform engineers who are using feature flags with LaunchDarkly to share their use cases and stories. If you or if you know anyone out there who is using LaunchDarkly let me know! Thanks! Disclaimer: I'm not in sales. This is a feedback exercise for our product and marketing teams. 😒heepy:😛latform-engineering-white:

Hello everyone. I work in Product at Oso where we build Authorization-as-a-service. I'm curious about the relationship between Platform Engineering and the CIO org. Are you more frequently seeing platform engineering arise in product engineering organizations who want to deliver shared services to their development teams because they care about speed, or are they coming from the CIO org to do something similar because they care about standards?

Is this amount of channels (3) complete here? Or are there hidden ones also?

✨ Survey on Cloud Management and IaC ✨ Hi Platformers :blob-waver: Only 6 minutes of your time and a chance to win a Nintendo Switch Let’s all compare notes about our infrastructure-as-code (IaC). See where you stand relative to other cloud-forward organizations. Answer a few short questions to help the entire community get a better understanding of norms, trends, and best practices. You can remain anonymous or leave your contact information for a chance to win a Nintendo Switch in time for the holidays. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/79PKG7H

Hey all 👋 My name is Maayan (=fountain in Hebrew), and I’m a Dev marketer @ Raftt. Hoping to see some of you f2f at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Detroit. We’ll be at booth SU83. Just like the amazing year that mobile phones and Mario Bros. were invented- who can forget… 🙃 Feel free to visit and see what we do (Hint: We get rid of “but it works on my machine” syndrome 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️)

Does codifying environments have to result in insecure configurations? On the contrary, expressing environment definitions via code has the potential to automate the process of scanning for security violations before they ever have the chance to cause harm. In this article, I’ll discuss one way to accomplish this in Terraform environments by using tfsec. Cloudify’s robust Terraform integration makes it easy to expose secure, repeatable Terraform environments to your end users with tfsec scanning built in. https://cloudify.co/blog/securing-terraform-modules-with-tfsec

Hi everyone! Yesterday we had a discussion with the team about the platforms we use for staying on top of platform engineering / cloud native news + discussing about it. Here’s our list: • PE Slack (of course 🤭) • Reddit • Quora • Twitter • LinkedIn • The New Stack / InfoQ / Medium / TechCrunch and other news platforms • Newsletters: Platform Weekly 🥐 (of course), SRE Weekly, KubeWeekly, etc. • Blogs, like CNCF, InfraCloud, DevOps Cube, Docker blog, etc. Please share your useful resources, we would like to expand the circle of knowledge here!

Hi all, do you have any material about hard skills related to API platforms? For example, which skills a person need to have to be able to understand and work with APIs, even if it's not a tech person

Hi all, I don’t know if you know Replibyte - it’s an open-source tool that I created to seed dev databases with production data while keeping sensitive data safe. It’s written in Rust 🦀 and completely stateless (no daemon, no server, just a single binary). We just reached 3.2k ⭐️ - if you like the project, feel free to give one more. Happy to have your feedback. Note: Replibyte is completely open-source and community driven. I worked on it on my free time. If you are interested in contributing (even if you are not a Rust developer). Please ping me. I have couple of issues that still need to be closed 😄 https://github.com/Qovery/replibyte

After 10 months hard work, we are more than proud to open finally the Serverless Summit 22 season. Check our exciting agenda for this year and join the Worlds largest Serverless Conference. We also have a local watch parties this year.🪐 👇🏻 Follow this link and enter the Serverless spaceship 👇🏻 https://serverless-summit.io

Hello fellow Platformers. Hope everyone is having a lovely friday 🙂 I have a question: Are you using the same branching strategy for IaC repo's, scripts repos and configuration repos as you do for you application development repos. I know of course it depends if you have IaC and application split into different repos; Let's assume you have. As an example, would you use the same branching strategy for your DevOps/Platform repos as you do for your Application development repos ?

:blob-waver: Happy Friday...or Saturday! :blob-waver: If you are heading to KubeCon in Detroit the week of 10/24, I invite you to join me at the Chaos Day pre-event on 10/25. You have to add the pre-event to your current KubeCon registration by following this link. We'll be diving into cloud-native chaos engineering best practices and hearing from some outstanding community members from the CNCF open-source LitmusChaos project. If you can make it, feel free to DM me for a free pass.

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Here is an article I just published where I explain (from my POV) how to become a Platform Engineer as a DevOps. 🚨 Spoiler Alert - It’s not the tool you use that will make you a better Platform Engineer 😄 Happy to have your feedback. Have a great weekend. https://www.qovery.com/blog/from-devops-to-platform-engineer-6-things-you-should-consider

Hi Everyone, with most technical platforms being internal with developers as their primary customers, curious to know what approaches did you take in measuring the value. Unlike external facing products, they may not always have direct revenue impact but are enablers in deliver faster and more frequently (ex: kubernetes platform). Did anyone use value modeling to measure and track value out of internal technical platforms? How did you get the buy in from executive leadership to secure, prioritize and measure value out of the platform investments?

Hi everyone! As mentioned by @Stefan Tomm in https://platformengin-b0m7058.slack.com/archives/C02DF3KKNES/p1663745630686909, in addition to GCP, my colleagues and I did an in-depth comparison on different landing zone solutions provided by Azure and AWS. If you’re interested in the landing zone topic, check them out and leave your feedback 🙂 we’ll be happy to hear your thoughts and your own experiences as well.

Hi, everyone! I was wondering could someone please recommend me a web-platform maker? (With not much coding). Situation: I have a project in which, I would like to have a web page in which people can order environments for work/demos etc. In this page there would be a login page, page where database and cloud would be chosen, multiple choice possibilities, summary and finally a JSON result of the environment. And a great feature would be if possible to sync this page with a google sheet or excel file. I saw a platform named "*Backstage.io*", maybe someone knows how it is and if it would be good for me? Or maybe some other recommendations. 🙂 I will look through every suggestion and advice. 🙂

I promised big news this morning, and here it is: Platform engineering is one of Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2023. So your CIO is suddenly going to be very interested in the topic, starting about an hour from now when the presentation hits the keynote stage at Symposium. In the meantime, hot off the presses, here's my writeup (Gartner clients only): https://www.gartner.com/document/code/774324