Platform Engineering Weekly #1: Lift Off 🚀

Hello there 👋🏼 I am Romaric, your host for this new weekly newsletter. The goal? Sharing with you the best content around Platform Engineering.

"Platform engineering is the discipline of building tooling and infrastructure that enables engineering teams to be self-sufficient while working faster and more efficiently." - Jon Stevens @ Weave

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Platform Engineering

What is platform engineering?

Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era. Platform engineers provide an integrated product most often referred to as an “Internal Developer Platform”…

PlatformEngineering LogoLuca GalanteProduct Humanitec

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Is Platform Engineering the New DevOps or SRE?

Here you will find a range of resources about platform engineering, what it is, and why it matters to cloud-native engineering organizations

Ambassador LabsDaniel Bryant

The State of Platform Engineering at Weave - Weave Engineering

The journey from a small startup to world-class Platform Engineering team.

The State of Platform Engineering at WeaveJon Stevens

Ephemeral Environments: Explained, Benefits, and How to Get Started?

Ephemeral environments are getting popular among companies that need to scale their business efficiently. Traditionally, the deployment…

DevOps.devRomaric Philogène

DevOps

No one should write Terraform

Reflecting upon zwischenzugs insightful and thought provoking article “Who should write the Terraform?”, the TL;DR conclusion I’ve come to…

MediumLeon Wright

Tooling

Citus 11 for Postgres goes fully open source, with query from any node

Release blog post for Citus 11, which is now fully open source and includes the non-blocking shard rebalancer. Citus 11 also includes automatic schema and metadata syncing across nodes, enabling you to query from any node if your app needs that type of high query throughput.

Microsoft logoTwitter icon marcoslot

Load testing for engineering teams | Grafana k6

k6 is an open-source tool and cloud service that makes load testing easy for developers and QA engineers.

AmazonNick Chapsasnickchapsas