The Past, the Present, and the Future of Platform Engineering
summary
Claims that Kubernetes platforms now center on 25+ hands-on tutorials and that it commonly takes two years to pick up the stack; concrete stacks shown combine Backstage+Argo CD+Crossplane+Kyverno and blueprints like AWS Canoe or Red Hat Developer Hub speed adoption. Built projects include Dapper for application APIs and a Dapper LLM gateway with caching and filtering. CNCF moves toward platform engineering certification, an Application Development WG, KCP/multicluster tooling, and more developer-experience-focused CNCF projects.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Platform engineering intro
- 1:03Author’s platform book journey
- 2:29Google’s platform report findings
- 3:32Kubernetes adoption trends
- 4:55From infra to developer enablement
- 6:19Platform maturity phases
- 7:42Evaluation phase challenges
- 8:23Optimization for production
- 9:24Platform capabilities & DX
- 10:48CNCF projects for platforms
- 12:12Industry platform blueprints
- 13:38Future of platform certifications
- 14:42Kubernetes multicluster challenges
- 15:45AI in Kubernetes & platforms
- 17:09Call to action for platforms
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