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DevOps vs SRE vs Platform Engineering
DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering are three closely related but different disciplines that solve software development problems in three different ways. Let's examine what each one does, how they differ and complement each other, and why you probably need all three.

Ikpemosi Victoria Braimoh
Apr 228 min read
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The IDP Revolution: Why Self-Service is the Key to Developer Empowerment
Software development should be seamless. The longer Developers have to wait, the less they create and this is why we need IDPs

Ikpemosi Victoria Braimoh
Mar 144 min read
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Platform Democracy: Rethinking Who Builds and Consumes Your Internal Platform
Platform Democracy is a model where developers, security teams, SREs, and even external service providers collaborate seamlessly.

Colin Humphreys
Mar 103 min read
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Kratix for Database Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to Amazon RDS Deployment
As a platform engineer, your team launched a new application, and demand is growing rapidly. Thousands of users are signing up, so you...

Obusor Ezekiel Umesi
Mar 68 min read
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Platform Building Antipatterns: Slow, Low, and Just for Show
Recognising these antipatterns is essential to building platforms that empower devs, ops, and, critically, everyone else in your org.

Daniel Bryant
Mar 47 min read
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A Comprehensive Guide into Terraform Variables
In Terraform, variables act as placeholders for dynamic values that can change at different stages of running a configuration, much like...

Joshua Adeyemi
Feb 268 min read
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The Future of Secure Platforms: Scaling Security with Kratix
Internal platforms often manage highly sensitive data, making them prime targets for breaches, insider threats, and cyberattacks.
Christopher Hedley
Feb 215 min read
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The Platform Engineering Playbook: Insights from Paula Kennedy
Leaders embarking on a platform engineering journey should start by asking: “What is the goal of our platform engineering effort?

Paula Kennedy
Feb 214 min read
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NotebookLM: The Future of (Platform Engineering) Podcasts?
The results of Google's NotebookLM were epic—especially the auto-generated podcasts on platform engineering

Daniel Bryant
Oct 7, 20244 min read
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Five Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Platform-as-a-Product
Colin Humphreys shares five key lessons for creating a successful platform-as-a-product from 20 years of working in platform engineering

Colin Humphreys
Sep 5, 20248 min read
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Top Five Platform Engineering Books for 2024
The top five platform engineering books for 2024 include Platform Strategy, Team Topologies, Infrastructure as Code, SRE, and Accelerate.

Daniel Bryant
Aug 29, 20244 min read
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