Welcome to the November round-up of the most interesting and important platform engineering news! We've included the top links for articles, technical news, videos, and podcasts from the platform engineering community. If you want to share a link, please reply to this email or contact us.
Articles and Books
Camille Fournier and Ian Nowl, authors of a new book on platform engineering, discuss why so many platform teams are building ill-considered IDPs, often by not listening to developers and other stakeholders.
A new Manning book by Ajay Chankramath, Nic Cheneweth, Bryan Oliver, and Sean Alvarez focuses on "designing and building platforms and tools that maximize developer efficiency."
Our latest mag contains articles on Platform-as-a-Product, "Multiplayer Mode", and Building Developer Platforms in Brownfield Environments.
Tech News
A very interesting article from Jennifer Riggins on TNS discusses how the 2024 DORA Report dives deep into AI, platform engineering, and developer experience to seriously mixed results.
The latest Thoughtworks Radar mentions platform engineering-focused techniques and tools, such as "observability 2.0", K9s, Score, and more!
The latest newsletter from the TT folks discusses the Platform Manifesto and techniques like Thinnest Viable Platform (TVP) and Golden Paths.
Presentations and Video
For this edition of the newsletter, we're highlighting our favourite five talks from the recent Kubernetes Community Day UK:
Natwest Bank’s Platform Engineering and Platform as a Product Journey to Date
Unikorns all the way down: Building a managed Kubernetes service with ClusterAPI
Scaling to Success: Monzo's Journey in Cost-Optimized Kubernetes Autoscaling
KCD UK Slides: Brownfield Realities, Platforms Orchestration & App Devs
The full event playlist will soon be published on the KCD UK YouTube channel, and we've shared our slides on the Syntasso blog.
Podcasts and Webinars
A recent TNS podcast interviewed Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Linux Foundation, about how platform engineering will be a key focus at KubeCon this year, with a special emphasis on "AI platforms."
In this episode of Dev Interrupted, host Dan Lines is joined by Cory O'Daniel, CEO of MassDriver, to discuss Cory’s provocative article 'DevOps is Bullsh*t'.
Gojko discusses his experiences building and improving products, the importance of measuring user behavior changes, and the concept of "lizard optimization", improving products by addressing unexpected user behaviors.
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