Platform Engineering Untold Truths
summary
Argues platform engineering industrializes DevOps and broadens platforms beyond infra to include data, ML, APIs and security, proposing an internal developer platform with catalog, control plane and prebuilt pipelines; cites the CNCF ecosystem as 119 projects and 800 repos and names Kubernetes and Crossplane CRDs as concrete building blocks; recommends a data layer with data catalog and data control plane for lineage and realtime flows, and treats AI as a conversational Dev assistant tied to marketplace items and observability.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00intro
- 0:14introduction to platform engineering
- 1:28the evolution from devops to platform engineering
- 4:46understanding internal developer platforms (idps)
- 7:35roles in platform engineering
- 11:20the platform as a service approach
- 18:29the role of ai in platform engineering
- 20:29conclusion and final thoughts
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