Hey there,
I have been talking about platform engineering for a long time now. I was talking about it 4 years ago when most people looked at me confused and likely began to tune me out. I was also talking about it just a few weeks ago at KubeCon Paris where people took notes and asked questions like I was a 1st century prophet. It is clear to everyone that things have changed, and platform engineering has moved beyond the hype. We are now in the cold, hard, and exciting reality.
I have the fortunate position to get my eyes on hundreds of platform initiatives across all industries, and scales and the story is the same across all of them. The platform initiatives that spend months or even years in planning and decision groups are languishing and dying with little more to show for it than the immense wasted time and money.
Almost all of the success stories are the platforms that embrace the Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) approach. They focus on moving fast and nimble to deliver value quickly, gather feedback, iterate and then expand out. This cuts years, and potentially millions from your timeline to Internal Developer Platform.
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The speed of these phases is dependent on you and your organization. But with the help of these open source reference architectures, and these resource packs, I have seen it take as little as four weeks.
There is a reason the MVP concept resonates so deeply with people. It is a solution that cuts straight through the crap and lets you get platforming fast - in a way that is quicker, with less risk, and far cheaper.
Here is how to get started.
- Join this webinar with platform master Mallory Haigh
- Read my article on The New Stack
- Speak to a Platform Architect and join the Humanitec MVP program
What are you waiting for?
Kaspar
