Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

Hey everyone! Recording this talk on our approach to Platform Engineering at SAP was a tonne of fun. Please do let me know if you have any comments or questions, I'd love to hear from you :relaxed: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGdMlcwje-w>

You can also check my Platform Engineering Explained in 10 Minutes videos for a broader introduction to Platform Engineering :slightly_smiling_face: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hvA-5N9LDc>

The scale of the work done at SAP is impressive and a bit scary. I am extremely interested in documentation, do you still have a knowledge manager (like an FTE) who is responsible to keep everyone on the same page?

Hey Ben - documentation is actually one of our biggest challenges on this project, as you might have guessed. Whilst we don't have this task assigned to an individual, we try to foster a culture of good documentation being a required acceptance criteria in our stories.

We currently leverage <https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/|Materials for MkDocs> as our portal, and it's working well - although we've had to build out some custom code to pull documentation from multiple github repositories into a single place.