"Using Golang for Platform Engineering"
summary
Argues that Go’s robustness, concurrency model and cross‑platform binaries make it practical for platform engineering and shows concrete artifacts: runtime templates and reusable packages generated with go templates, a Cobra CLI that bootstraps repos into GitHub, CI/CD integration (Drone) and automatic rollback via metrics, and observability wired with OpenTelemetry (plus tradeoffs like eBPF exploration). Cautions against heavy proprietary frameworks (Gizmo didn’t age well) and recommends a Backstage developer portal and build vs buy discipline.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:02Principles of Platform Engineering
- 8:41Support Strategies
- 11:50Platform Architecture
- 12:18Intentional Design
- 13:31Design Tensions
- 16:07Simplicity and Complexity
- 17:47Platform Recipe
- 21:05Examples
- 25:09Delivery
- 28:36Production Readiness
- 33:13Example
- 35:43Wrap Up
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