Lockdown, there will be no lockdown, bam, bam... Just a little rap song my 3-year old son keeps singing. I thought it helps keep the head high.
If you are thinking about leveling up your engineering team’s productivity, chances are you are considering building an internal platform team. If not, well you should. I am a huge fan of internal platform teams. I believe they are the key to high-performing organizations, they unlock true DevOps and make working in your app development teams truly enjoyable.
My colleague Luca wrote a wonderful article on what platforms teams are, when you need one, and how to avoid the common pitfalls. Thank you everyone from Netflix to Nestlé for contributing with feedback and insights to this article.
One of the most important takeaways from the article: your internal platform team needs to be driven by a product mindset. The team has to focus on what provides real value (as opposed to what is “cool” to work on) for their internal customers, the app developers, based on the input they are giving. We also discuss how platform teams optimize the overall iteration speed of your engineering organization and are the fundamental glue for your internal tooling. But enough said, check out the article to learn more about platform teams.
One of the most vivid experts around platforms is New Relic’s Galo Navarro. In a webinar we’ll be hosting with him he will explain how he built a PaaS for 1500 engineers when he was working with the Platform team at Adevinta.
For all of the platform teams using Humanitec to build their Internal Developer Platform, we are excited to announce general availability for persistent volumes as part of Humanitec!
Check out the feature announcement for details. We’ve also published a tutorial on how to use an existing NFS Server as a Volume.
Come deploy the candy shop!
Kaspar
