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

What a <https://medium.com/@rphilogene/what-a-fintech-platform-team-taught-me-about-crossplane-terraform-and-the-cost-of-building-it-09047206a0f0?postPublishedType=initial|Fintech Platform Team Taught Me About Crossplane, Terraform and the Cost of “Building It Yourself”>. Enjoy this write-up on one of the most interesting exchanges I got this week with a Platform Engineer. No hidden ads - just a sum up of this super conversation.

Great summary of a lot of common platform problems and tradeoffs.

“We’re stuck between portal/UI and GitOps purists.” is my current hell :sob:

I'd love to have a chat with you <@U05C4JWSKRN> if it's your current hell

My problem is more a people vs a solutions one. I'm slowly networking with leaders to evangelize platform engineering and the adoption of our current solution. It's difficult to sell the ROI but I've been successful using Team Topologies and the materials they have created as a starting place.

Just simply showing a list of "everything your engineers have to do to ship a feature" and then showing the steps/cognitive load the platform can remove is compelling but people don't want to give up control. Still building that trust

I enjoyed the article, too. Roughly what % of the eng org was this 7-person team, btw?

Hi <@U06HJ7XQ8KV> :wave: 7 platform people for ~90 Software Eng.