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Hey Just joined this community! I'm José and I am sending this message from the south of 🇧🇷 I am a software engineer and sometimes I like to play the architect role. I'm a big fan of gregor hohpe (yes, my collegues created an emoji to react when I share some articles) and I found this community because of this video on your YouTube Channel. Really happy to find you folks to share some knowledge. Currently I am playing a Sr. Engineering Manager role at loadsmart.com Thanks

Anyone work in a team that uses trunk based development? Do you use short lived branches when working this way or always commit to main. I would like answers pertaining to how you work, not theoretical answers.

RTFM should not replace a well designed internal developer platform! https://nandovillalba.medium.com/platform-engineering-please-kill-rtfm-72de6f01075e

👋 Hi everyone!

I have been working as Devops engineer with 3 years of experience. I also have self learnt java development and interesting to move towards where i can work developer contributing to Devops space . Do these kind of roles exists? In short : is it possible to move from Devops automation role to 'Devops development focused role ?

Hiya 👋 Ayush from India; working since one year to setup Platform Engineering for a large scale enterprise ! Looking forward to learning and contributing back to this community

👋🏼Hey everyone! I just came across this really interesting article about data privacy and AI governance and I thought some of the experts in our community might find it helpful. It covers a bunch of different issues that we're all probably thinking about, like private data collection, repurposing of data, and the risks of surveillance and re-identification attacks. https://www.cookielawinfo.com/data-privacy-and-ai-governance/?ref=bgs10 The article also has some great solutions for addressing these challenges and promoting responsible AI governance practices. If you're an expert in this field or just someone who's curious about these issues, I'd definitely recommend giving it a read. Let me know what you think!📝

Our (Wayfair) Director of Engineering Effectiveness recently covered our journey, core techniques, pitfalls, and successes building out our department focused on magnifying the impact of engineers throughout the company. https://getdx.com/podcast/26

Elad Ben-Israel, the guy behind JSII and constructs and much of the CDK, has a compelling manifesto, an new startup (dope website!), and a new programming language for the cloud, Wing. Feels like this statement describe the approach:

But sometimes, “where they are” is not a good enough model for creating the desired experience.

Has anyone started looking at this? Any thoughts on the approach?

Hello 👋 I’ll be in SF from January 11th to January 23rd - if some of you want to talk about platform engineering and devops around a coffee or a beer 🍻 I’d be glad to organize something :) drop a comment if you are in or DM me. ✌️

I’m wondering how many of us in the community go beyond dev tooling and cloud to meet the goals of reducing cognitive load on teams, improve flow and help teams be more productive? I posted this on linkedin about how Team APIs are a great way to improve flow between teams and reduce cognitive load, and whilst it does mention that we use Compass within Atlassian to do this, it’s more the concept of a Team API which I think is helpful for teams.

Is it bad to start as a DevOps now? Is already irrelevant as job role?

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New to platform engineering here and I have a question. Are companies like Aiven for example just building a platform around making it easier to deploy some type of service? in Aivens case that would be cloud resources? If that's the case I am a little confused about how these companies make money. For example why would anyone use Aiven to deploy a database instead of just using the AWS, GCP, or Azure documentation? yeah maybe it takes slightly longer but if you have someone who knows what they are doing you still end up with the same result and with less money spent? Maybe I have it all wrong and am just misunderstanding this so would love to hear some discussion on this please!

Hey everyone! I wanted to share some exciting news - Qovery now supports Terraform modules! I’ve created a demo to show you how it all works, including how Qovery handles Terraform output values seamlessly. Check it out here: For those who may not be familiar, Qovery is a self-service platform for deploying and managing cloud-native applications on multiple environments. With Qovery, you can easily deploy and manage your applications and services on any cloud provider. I hope you find the demo helpful and informative. As always, I’m happy to hear your feedback 👂

I have an odd request: What's lacking in the Artifactory space?

Happy New Year everyone 🎉🎉🎉🎉 May all your CI/CD pipelines pass; your code compile without error or warning; and your monitoring alarms never ring! And remember to be awesome to each other, regardless of any and all differences. Have a great 2023 💯🎉💯🎉

Hi experts, as a part of backstage system creation template, we are creating gitlab repositories for each system. We would like to register the same repository in the ArgoCD as one of the steps within the backstage system creation template. We aren't able to find ArgoCD API that can add the repo url to ArgoCD. Please let me know if anyone has done that before.

New to backstage and attempting setup. I am exposing at a sub-path which appears to be supported - https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/6749 However with my app-config.local.yaml set as follows:

app:
      # Should be the same as backend.baseUrl when using the `app-backend` plugin.
      baseUrl: <https://services.internal/backstage>

    backend:
      # Note that the baseUrl should be the URL that the browser and other clients
      # should use when communicating with the backend, i.e. it needs to be
      # reachable not just from within the backend host, but from all of your
      # callers. When its value is "<http://localhost:7007>", it's strictly private
      # and can't be reached by others.
      baseUrl: <https://services.internal/backstage>

If I navigate to the main URL I just get a blank page. If I looked at the returned HTML

<!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8"/><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"/><meta name="theme-color" content="#000000"/><meta name="description" content="Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals"/><link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/logo192.png"/><link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json" crossorigin="use-credentials"/><link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico"/><link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"/><link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"/><link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon-32x32.png"/><link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon-16x16.png"/><link rel="mask-icon" href="/safari-pinned-tab.svg" color="#5bbad5"/><title>Scaffolded Backstage App</title><script defer="defer" src="/static/runtime.ca7de487.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-material-ui.d6133835.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-lodash.2cb4e330.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-date-fns.09dcdd7d.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-backstage.958f85a5.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-yaml.bcdcfe65.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-material-table.a69dfac1.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-luxon.709b2632.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-octokit.37e435bf.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-zod.c5bfa0d3.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-react-dom.fcbc6a60.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-react-beautiful-dnd.1bd1bde2.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/module-remix-run.df093bf6.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/vendor.ca7de487.js"></script><script defer="defer" src="/static/main.ca7de487.js"></script></head><body><noscript>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.</noscript><div id="root"></div></body></html>

You can see that none of the URL are correctly rendered with the sub-path.

User Experience on Platform Engineering: Design an Internal Developer Platform that doesn't suck! https://medium.com/@nandovillalba/ux-on-platform-engineering-1c7ecfaddea7

Hi everyone, though I'm new to the concept of Platform Engineering, I'm by no means new to engineering team inefficiencies... My first intuition on PE is that it looks like an appealing promise but doesn't help to small R&D organizations cope with their inefficiencies. Small = up to 50-60 developers. I'd be pleased to get your feedback on such engineering teams, which problems you think they suffer from, and how PE aims to solve them. Looking forward to some good ideas 🙂

Hello all, this is my blog series on “Platform Engineering at Palo Alto Networks” https://medium.com/engineering-at-palo-alto-networks/platform-engineering-at-palo-alto-networks-part-2-315bd7b0fbfa Please take a look at and feel free to contact me if you have any feedback or suggestions or questions.

Any infra to terraform code convertor tools better than terraformer , anyone know of ?

Hello everyone, and happy new year 👋 I ask you to participate in a study about the migration to microservices architectures, which we are doing at the University of Porto. We’re very interested in hearing about your experience in case you’ve done or helped do this type of migration. _(link to questionnaire in this thread_👇_)_

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Has anyone previously posted a full developer workflow for what it takes to go from concept/idea to production deploy? The full user journey, not just here's an IDP that helps do things for you?

Plongez dans le monde de l'ingénierie des plates-formes avec mes trois derniers articles, qui explorent les défis et les réussites de la construction et de la maintenance de l'infrastructure qui alimente la plate-forme technique actuelle de ManoMano. I hope that my testimony will help you. <3 https://medium.com/@chussenot/making-a-technical-platform-aeb9338f47ad https://medium.com/@chussenot/making-a-technical-platform-84933794feef https://medium.com/@chussenot/3-making-a-technical-platform-bfd6239a47b3

Hi, All Sometimes it can be difficult to convince companies of the importance of “platform engineering”. For a year, our team worked hard to develop Internal Developer Platforms, but from the company’s point of view, “What value is it? What indicators can you prove?” When I hear the question called, I worry a lot. It can be explained in words, but in the end it seems to be expressed in quantitative figures. Has anyone ever had the same problem as me? Any advice would be appreciated. 😞

Hey, here’s a question that I would guess has been discussed here before–I’d be happy with a redirect to previous threads if people have them. But… why has platform engineering become so much of a hot topic recently? Shared services and internal developer platforms have been around for a long time. Why is there such a spike in interest right now?