Has anyone read the new book on Platform Engineeri...
# general
j
Has anyone read the new book on Platform Engineering? https://thenewstack.io/platform-engineering-why-youre-doing-it-wrong/
t
I read the sample on Amazon and pre-ordered the printed copy which ships next month
g
Interesting interview on The New Stack. However, I would disagree that we are talking about platforms since 5 years in the context of coming back onto unleashing developers to do whatever they want. It's more about allowing them to accelerate and choose whatever they want, with boundaries. That is: 1. abstracting the complexity of all the stuff they don't really care or need to know much about 2. ensuring that whatever they choose has automated governance around it so it inherits from all the good stuff that we have abstracted most of the complexity in point 1... observability, compliance, performance, security, etc.
It's not right to see that because some really advanced tech companies have created their own tool and have very smartly open-source it and marketed it that it is the right thing for all other companies. Platforms are about bringing everything that a developer needs but doesn't really care about or doesn't need to know together in a simple, easy-to-use, self-service set of standardized interfaces. It is more of an infrastructure-oriented deliverable than a software-oriented one. Although it requires infra people to actually write code and work "as-a-product" with the primary end-customers being the developers, and the secondary end-customers security chaps, operations teams, finance teams, ITSM teams, GRC teams etc. etc.
j
i also ordered the book yesterday. at worst, it would be a refresher or a different perspective / framing i could use
j
Welcome @Ian Nowland to this community!
s
I've started it. Only in chapter one so far But I've had my share of cringe moments when they describe a pitfall to avoid "yup, I fell into that trap last year. And the year before that." :)
s
Sounds like a solid recommendation then @Steve C? 😄