I usually don’t share newsletters two weeks in a row, but I have just had the chance to see a sneak preview of the platform engineering fundamentals course put together by Luca Galante and team for the platform engineering community and wow… I feel I should share what will be starting next week. If you want to become a platform engineer, or ensure that you are understanding platform engineering at the highest level, I believe it is unmissable! Especially for the number of people whose titles recently have been changed to platform engineer - w/o the necessary context to justify it.
Just look at this answer to their pre-course survey…
It is the exact kind of beginning to end journey on what you need to do and understand as a platform engineer that this industry desperately needs. Though the industry has done a better job of avoiding the same trap that GitOps and DevOps fell into. I promise you with absolute certainty that if you grabbed 10 people from your department and asked them to define platform engineering and what a platform engineer needs to know and do. They would each give you a completely different answer.Â
This course resolves that entirely. The course is a clear, systematic approach through the fundamentals of platform engineering focusing on vendor neutrality (where possible) and the highest level of industry standards based on knowledge from experts in the platform engineering community, and Luca and the teams own work on dozens of platforms.
It starts with the fundamentals, “the what, and the why” i.e clarifying its relationship to DevOps, unpacking Platform as a Product (with I hear a guest lecture from Manuel Pais himself) and then will go into the technical depths with Clemens breaking down some of fundamental technical details, including building your own Internal Developer Platform (IDP) training dummy running on your own machine and more.
You can register for the course here. The course starts in less than a week, so I would recommend purchasing or reaching out to Luca and Clemens soon.
Kaspar
