So, last day of the week, last month of the quarter...lots to work on! To recap what we did in this past 2 months: • 🇮🇳 and 🇮🇹 community members organised local MeetUps respectively in Bangalore, virtually and in Milan [contact me if you'd like to organise one! If we have already been in contact and I forgot to follow up, ping me or write me an email at giulia@platformengineering.org] • lots more of local chapters are now in our channel list! [feel free to create your local chapter, but prior to that please, click on the All Channel option on the left and checking if already existing or not]. • We launched the new PlatformCon 2023! More than 470 talk proposal and already lots of registrations...if you want to save the date (even if you already registered) head to Linkedin and click on PlatformCon Day1 Kickoff [we have two kickoff events for both days, one with EU timezones and one with US timezones, but they will be also recorded]. • We passed 10k members and we had an amazing fireside chat with our community members. You can check it out at this link: • We kept having incredible guests to our weekly webinars 😛latform-engineering: talking about everything platform. • We kept baking a pretty interesting series of PlatformWeekly 🥐. We have a lot more coming and a lot of things that did not fit in the list here, but I am quite happy to say that we started with a bang! Next week I will send out a survey to all of you who are here since more than 3 months to see what else can we do to make this space even better, and bring even more value to the community.

What’s software or practices are your teams using to track requests from either internal or external customers? Additionally, same question but for tracking changes being made to production environments. Our product is deployed on prem/customer owned cloud, and I’m exploring how to better track changes happening in those environments related to our deployments.

Today i got to watch @Aeris absolutely slay her Platform Engineering talk here at SCaLE in Los Angeles 😎

Hey Folks, We at Dgraph Labs use Github as our VCS. And we have recently migrated our CI/CD setup to Github Actions. This was a huge win for us internally, especially in a startup setting like ours. Our wins were broadly in these 3 areas

Compute Costs

,

Maintenance Efforts

&

Configuration Time

. With this new setup, we designed & developed

Dynamic AutoScaling of Github Runners

in house. We are thinking of open-sourcing this project. If there is any interest here - pls do reach out. We were able to

_*save ~87%*_ $$

of our

Compute Costs

with this setup. Blog Link => https://www.sudhishkr.com/posts/20230217_dynamic-autoscaling-of-github-runners/ Hope you enjoy reading this.

Hello Everyone, I am Abdulrahman chatting from Nigeria 🇳🇬

Hey community 👋 , I was discussing this week with @Hugo Pinheiro - and I was wondering how many of you would be interested in learning how to code in Golang to create your own CLI tools? Please drop a comment and click on ➕ Depending on the number of people interested, I could prepare and give a dedicated course 😄.

👋 Hi everyone, i am a QA.I am intrigued by the concept of IDP , but I do not have any idea of about the technicality of a operations engineer.Can anyone provide some learning resources essentials for a platform engineer? (i am a complete newbie)

The other day, Japan's first PlatformEngineering community event was held. (It's a bit of an advertisement, but our company also cooperated as a sponsor.💪) As a result, on the first day, the local seats were full and nearly 500 people watched the show, which was a blast.😀 <Platform Engineering Meetup #1> https://platformengineering.connpass.com/event/275718/ As was mentioned in the case of the presentation above, CyberAgent, an IT service company, has made excellent efforts such as mastering k8s. PlatformEngineering is expected to become more popular in Japan in the future. On the other hand, in general Japanese companies, development is mostly outsourced. When I received training from TeamTopologies the other day, I also heard that it would be difficult to build StreamAligendTeam itself in the case of outsourcing development. I have heard that there are many overseas countries where development is not outsourced, but have you heard of any implementation examples or practices in Platform Engineering that straddle multiple development outsourcing companies? Or is in-house production a major premise? Thank you for your information and opinions.

Hi all, is any of you providing automatic refactors at scale (going beyond the dependabot PRs) for your stream aligned teams using openrewrite, error-prone or an equivalent one? Videos, links, blogs are welcome

Hey All, My company (Seaplane) is organizing an industry wide survey for platform engineers. Because platform engineering is still a relatively new role, we wanted to survey current platform engineers, prior platform engineers, and people who do work similar to that of platform engineering in order to gain and share perspective about the platform engineering role, community, and trends. There will be 2 randomly selected survey participants who will receive a $100 Amazon gift card for completing the survey. Please fill it out and feel free to share with your colleagues, friends and coworkers! https://forms.gle/o7GHEL3tjLaUnzLi9

One month to go till KubeCon Amsterdam! Who is going to be there? https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/

Hi Folks, does anyone know there is any meetup happening for Platform Engineers/Leaders in and around Boston?

🦄We are live with @Mallory Haigh to talk about deploying psychological safety for your platform engineering initiative - join in:

is there a channel for folks based in NYC?

I loved this article about developing a product mindset to DevOps!

Developing a product-driven approach

1. Identify customer needs: Collect customer feedback, analyze customer satisfaction surveys, and conduct market research to understand customer preferences, conditions, and demands.

2. Define requirements: Create a detailed list of customer requirements for the product or service that is to be developed.

3. User-centric design: Use customer feedback and requirements to design a user-centric product or service. Utilize mock-ups and prototypes to ensure the product is tailored to user needs.

4. Agile methodology: Develop the product using an agile methodology, which emphasizes collaboration and iterative development. This will ensure that the product can be quickly modified and adapted to customer needs.

5. Automation: Leverage automation and DevOps tools to streamline and automate the software development process. This will allow for faster and more reliable product delivery.

6. Monitor and improve: Monitor customer feedback and usage data to identify areas for improvement and ensure that customer needs are being met.

https://medium.com/cloud-believers/bring-product-mindset-into-devops-dac90b35d7af

hey guys, I wanted to share some articles that the community might find useful https://www.kaaiot.com/blog/versioning-best-practices

Hello everyone, how are you? I'm here to ask an opinion about how do you guys handle the ITSM in a environment running Kubernetes and agile development. Our governance team here is asking us to provide change management or something related to it for changes that we made in our environment.

1. Hi All, i have taken the responsibility for building frameworks/capabilities as a part of the platform engineering team. Platform engineering is new to me. I wish to do this as a product. Can you all brainstorm on what are all the documents/support information i need to provide as a platform team to the other teams. Thoughts/suggestions are welcome. these are the 5 broader areas i thought of Software distribution 2. Release Management 3. Developer relations/advocacy 4. Knowledge Base 5. Support Model Please provide your feedback

💡After many of you asking for it, I have decided to start a channel specifically for conferences, events and meetups so that people could share where they are going and connect with folks present at the same events. Sometimes is difficult find those information in the general channel so I hope this can help. You can join the channel here: #events

Hi all, Can you recommend any configuration management tools that are suitable for a company that mainly deploys its applications on AWS serverless infrastructure?

Hi all, I’ve recently had a great chat with Krishna about platform engineering at enterprise scale. Hope you find it useful 👇

Hello everyone, happy to be part of this community!

I just registered for PlatformCon 2023, excited for the event!

Hi platformers 👋 after a conversation I had yesterday I’m interested to know how many of your have non-cloud infrastructure responsibilities as a part of your platform team. 👍 for yes 👎 for no.

Well, I’m writing a new article explaining how at Qovery, we turned Kubernetes into a Developer-Friendly Product - But it was too tempting to mention that we are not using ChatGPT 😅

I’m genuinely curious. How many platform engineers had zero experience and no background in tech before landing this job? Is it realistic to just have a CKA and land a platform engineering role?