https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2023 @P.A.C. Delory

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Hi folks .. for all the Kubernetes people .. maybe you are interested in these blog posts that I’ve been writing, titled the Challenges of Building platforms on top of Kubernetes: • https://salaboy.com/2022/09/29/the-challenges-of-platform-building-on-top-of-kubernetes-1-4/ • https://salaboy.com/2022/10/03/the-challenges-of-platform-building-on-top-of-kubernetes-2-4/ • https://salaboy.com/2022/10/17/the-challenges-of-platform-building-on-top-of-kubernetes-3-4/

Great to see Platform Engineering in the Gartner top strategic tech trends for 2023! I’ve written a blog summarising the key points in the paper for those without Gartner access: https://cloudsoft.io/blog/platform-engineering-gartner-trend

We have started a worldwide Serverless Survey to collect the state of the Serverless Evolution 2022. We will provide you all attendees the full results of the survey and you can also win 1 of 3 Amazon 50$ voucher, https://globaldatanet.typeform.com/evolution

Hey Platform Engineering group, we’re having an internal debate that comes up times and times again and I wanted to ask your guys experience about it. We built a microservice architecture in which every microservice shares authentication code (at the moment all the services are in the same language, so that works more or less). We use JWT for authentication. As you may imagine it’s very annoying to maintain the same logic in many places. One of our engineers suggested a centralised approach, e.g a central microservice handling authentication, with all the other services relying on it. We have yet to reach consensus if this would work or not (reliability immediately springs to mind). Does someone have experience with this they would like to share?

My personal suggestion was to use the API Gateway to validate tokens, but that comes with its own set of challenges (on the on-prem we use a different authentication scheme). It also allows anyone inside the cluster to move freely

Join us TODAY at 8PM UTC to talk about the driving force of OpenTelemetry (OTel). We have invited @Jamie Danielson, Software Engineer at Honeycomb.io, to deep dive on what OTel is and how to implement it. We’ll wrap up with ways you can roll it out in your organization and have all you need to start using OpenTelemetry in your workplace! See you at: https://www.meetup.com/platform-engineers-atx-online/events/288178116/ https://platformengin-b0m7058.slack.com/archives/C02FDQAHZTK/p1665769041230369

Why do we need a self-service developer platform? One of the biggest challenges in software engineering is finding the right balance between flexibility and simplicity. This is especially true in a highly secured and regulated environment. Find out how we simplify the developer experience and scale DevOps workflows without compromising the security of multi-Kubernetes environments with these 3 steps. • Take an opinionated approach to development infrastructure • Establish a dedicated #platformengineering team • Take a best-of-breed approach to deliver a self-service development platform (IDP) https://cloudify.co/blog/bridging-the-gap-between-applications-and-kubernetes-environments/ You can learn more about this and other related Kubernetes and hybrid-cloud topics at KubeCon in Detroit. Just set up a meeting with us >>> https://cloudify.co/kubecon-detroit/

...and we are live with Jamie, showing what OTel is and how to implement it. Join us here:

Anyone going to be at Kubecon? Be great to have a meetup for this group!

👋 Hi everyone!

Where did Terraform Enterprise go wrong? Our recent Tech Talk podcast interviews Elliot Graebert based on his latest article Four Great Alternatives to HashiCorp’s Terraform Cloud and discusses in detail with us the “Evolution and approaches to Infrastructure as Code. Where did Terraform Enterprise go wrong?” “In my experience, the industry is really fractured right now, in that the management of the infrastructure is split between multiple tools. I don’t think this is for good reasons. Things like, having to use Terraform Enterprise for your Terraform execution, but calling out to Ansible Tower to do coordination across older applications.” - Elliot Graebert, VP of Engineering at Convictional https://cloudify.co/blog/evolution-and-approaches-to-infrastructure-as-code/

I will usually wait for talks to just show up on YouTube. I’m lazy like that 🤷

Who is attending KubeCon in person next week? 🤔

I will be there

We have just taken out of the oven our freshest Platform Weekly 🥐... Check the latest from the community directly in your inbox, or on our online archive later this week...and if you try that modded version of Doom doom, please let me know!

Hi everyone, I’m excited to share that Okay is sponsoring QCon and LeadDev in San Francisco next week - stop by our booth! We'll be demonstrating how we provide flexible dashboards and analytics for software teams. Let me know if you'll be there - would love to meet or grab coffee! ☕

Just found this article - do you agreed? https://blog.massdriver.cloud/devops-is-bullshit

Want to know a secret?

I’ve copied and pasted the same damn Terraform modules for every single one. My job felt like a scam, but companies pay me for my expertise in Kubernetes, not for writing Terraform. I had built a copy-paste-driven, single-user platform-as-a-service and no one cared so long as nothing was broken.

Yep.

Hello good afternoon everybody My names is Rui franco I'm from Angola.

Some refer to him as AWS Hero, others call him the G.O.A.T. We are very excited to have him back on stage! Please welcome one of our most anticipated speakers of the year: 🐈 :cat2: Yan Cui ⚡️⚡️ About his Tech-talk: Everyone talks about Serverless architectures and a lot of people share their architectures. But barely anyone talks about HOW they arrived at their architecture and all the other possible ways they could have solved the problem and why their chosen approach is the best in their context. Those are the thought processes that everyone has to go through, and a muscle that we all need to exercise. There are many ways to solve a given problem using AWS services. And knowing when to use which service has become one of the most valuable skills for software engineers. In this session, 🐈 Yan Cui would present a number of novel problems with different requirements and share his approach to reasoning about and evaluating solutions and picking the right AWS service for the job. About 🐈 Yan: 🐈 Yan is an experienced engineer who has run production workload at scale on Amazon Web Services (AWS) since 2010. He has been an architect and principal engineer in a variety of industries ranging from banking, e-commerce, sports streaming to mobile gaming. He has worked extensively with Serverless technologies in production since 2015. Nowadays, he splits his time between advancing the state of Serverless observability as a Developer Advocate at Lumigo and helping companies around the world adopt Serverless as an independent consultant. 🐈 Yan is also an AWS Serverless Hero and a regular speaker at user groups and conferences internationally. He is the author of Production-Ready Serverless and co-author of Serverless Architectures on AWS, 2nd Edition, both by Manning. And he keeps an active blog at https://theburningmonk.com and hosts a Serverless-focused podcast at https://lnkd.in/dmKPiFG Free Tickets available here: https://serverless-summit.io

And with a nice meme sheepy, I wish you a great end of the week!

Hi Everyone, i have one Curios Questions, What is the market Value of the Platform as a product…. What is the today value and the Forecasted value?… How to find the right customers to give the proposal? How to Convince ?

Hi, everyone! I recently discovered PlatformCon and I'm still watching all the talks. I'd like to know if any of you have experience with Data Platforms/ML Platforms/Analytics Platforms and how have been your experience by applying a product mindset to its management? Besides, what practices have used or seen that helped such a team's success?

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I want to understand what’s the different between Platform Engineering and Engineering Productivity. We usually use term of “Engineering Productivity” in China.

We design and build tool chains which build on traditional CI/CD tools to improve the developer experience

This is one of my favorite projects: https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice