IaC Next Steps in Platform Engineering
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Describes launching an internal developer platform around 2020 with a small core team, using headless IDP tools (Backstage and OpsLevel) wired by Terraform modules to give teams paved roads while preserving divergence, and keeping global governance via architecture reviews. Measures engineering efficiency with cycle time from LinearB and cites DORA research. Reports decentralizing from ~3 DevOps to many teams and scaling deployments from a few per day to hundreds, learning to start small and iterate rather than building a big-bang platform.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 3:18What is Infrastructure as Code
- 7:15Platform engineering vs DevOps
- 8:39Benefits of platform engineering
- 10:02How platforms start and fail
- 11:48Starting your platform journey
- 14:16Case study at Checkout.com
- 17:54Building a self-service model
- 21:52Future of platform engineering
- 24:22Q&A session
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