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Platform Engineering Weekly #2: DevOps vs SRE vs Platform Engineering

Hello there πŸ‘‹πŸΌ 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

I can't tell you how excited I am to grow the Platform Engineering community β€” having in-depth discussions about DevOps and how to help developers to be more autonomous and productive.

Enjoy this week's notable articles.

Romaric.


Platform Engineering

How Is Platform Engineering Different from DevOps and SRE?
Platform engineering is the next stage of evolution. Like DevOps, it enables developer self-service. Like SRE, it reduces errors and increases reliability.
How We Built Qovery - Part 1
I am excited to launch a new series of engineering articles to dig into all the details of How we Built Qovery. A platform built for DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineers, and Developers since January 2020. Since day 1, the Qovery team has strived to make Qovery as open as possible and fight against the b…
Deep tech dive into How Qovery has built their cloud deployment platform for Platform Engineers
What We Learned From Large-scale Platform Engineering Practices | KusionStack
Abstract: This blog attempts to talk about the challenges and best practices in the process of large-scale platform engineering from the perspectives of engineering, programing language, divide-and-conquer, modeling, automation, and collaborative culture. Hopefully, by sharing the concepts and pract…
Experience feedback on Platform Engineering Practices
We've spent months building this platform, devs hate it, help me understand why from sre
Interesting Reddit post of what you should not do! πŸ˜…

DevOps

DevOps Topologies
The primary goal of any DevOps effort within an organisation is to improve the delivery of value for customers and the business, not in itself to reduce costs, increase automation, or drive everything from configuration management; this means that different organisations might need different team st…
Super write-up to discover the different types of DevOps topologies

Stories

What we learned after I deleted the main production database by mistake
A cautionary tale to show that processes exist to protect us from ourselves and our undying stupidity
Because it can happen to everyone πŸ˜…

Tooling

Best three tools for working with many Kubernetes contexts
If you switch clusters multiple times a day, it should be fast and convenient. We will look at 3 tools that will make your life easier.