How the Cloud Foundry Community Can Help Platform Engineering
summary
Cloud Foundry brings six to eight years of real‑world platform experience and argues platform engineering should borrow its practices: keep a crisp definition of goals, reuse the Cloud Foundry platforms idea of “push” deployments, add opinionated layers like developer portals only after the core works, and measure outcomes — track support ratios per operator (developers per operator, apps per platform) and business efficiency. Emphasize user‑to‑user word‑of‑mouth by cultivating end‑user communities; the claim is these practices make platforms adopted and sustainable.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and therapy session
- 1:27Cloud Foundry community lessons
- 8:26Platform engineering rise
- 11:32Purpose of platforms
- 14:00Proving platform value
- 17:33Building platform communities
- 22:09Sustainability of community
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