It’s now official: platform engineering is on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies starting in 2022! Gartner defines platform engineering as “the discipline of building and operating self-service Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) for software delivery and life cycle management”, which is absolutely spot on.
Ok, Gartner is speaking about platform engineering. So what, you might think. But we should not underestimate what this mention does to the priority ranking of your CIO. “DevOps is dead, long live Platform Engineering” you can hear the choir chanting. And while DevOps certainly shouldn’t die, platform engineering is the right next thing to do.
As we discussed last time: if you don’t build your platform, it will build itself. Or to put it another way: Devs don’t want to do Ops.
In that light, I’ll do an invite-only roundtable on platform engineering at the end of September and I’d genuinely love to see you there. I’ll bring platform pioneers that have been in the space for years and we will debate how to platform, how to avoid fallacies etc. Sign up here.
We have a large number of community events coming up that I encourage you to check out as well:
What (really) is Kubernetes? - Viktor Farcic is the host of the Youtube channel DevOps Toolkit and co-host of DevOps Paradox. In this session, we will attempt to demystify Kubernetes by digging deep in the architecture and through demos Viktor will try to unlock what Kubernetes really is.
Terraform at scale: lessons from looking at 100s of IaC setups - Sören Martius is CEO at Mineiros, a company that specializes in IaC solutions for Kubernetes, Google Cloud and GitHub. Sören has been around the IaC block and joins us to share best practices for using Terraform at scale.
What are composable abstractions and why should you care - MongoDB's Andrew Davidson and Humanitec CEO Kaspar von Grünberg discuss how to provide the right level of abstraction in your setup through the use of composable abstractions.
Incident management: talk the talk, walk the walk - Hila Fish from Wix gives an introduction to Incident management and breaks down a neat list of best practices to smoothen and effective teams' handling of production incidents.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Kaspar
