SNL #14: Ideal Platform Engineer, PaaS vs K8s, GitOps & DX Core 4
- Daniel Bryant
- Jan 9
- 3 min read
Happy New Year! And welcome to the first January round-up of the most interesting and essential platform engineering news.
As we start the new year, we're keen to learn more about your top priority for your platform engineering efforts: Is it finding time to explore new technologies, learning how to lead platform teams, or understanding how to build/buy/blend your way to creating a platform? Let us know by replying to this email.
Articles
Sooraj Shah from Port has created a guide to what aspiring platform engineers need to know, using anecdotes and data from experts in the field.
Jennifer Riggins summarized my KCD UK talk and explored the possibility of a platform engineering strategy that works from the middle out.
Coté riffs on a recent post by the VMware Tanzu team that provides several comparisons between Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes and a whole lot more.
Tech News
Prince Onyeanuna from EverythingDevOps has created a practical getting-started guide for using Kratix, our open-source orchestration framework.
Rotem Tamir has summarised his helpful KubeCon NA talk, which focused on using the Operator Pattern to build a new solution for robust and safe schema rollbacks.
Tobi Knaup, co-founder of Mesosphere/D2iQ, argues that enterprises must embrace a centralized strategy to unlock Kubernetes’ full potential.
Presentations and Video
Viktor Farcic does an excellent job exploring and deconstructing the new kro "Kube Resource Orchestrator" project.
Andy Burgin explains what the customer experience team did in one of their projects, starting from scratch and how they have attained feedback with recommendations from across the business.
In this episode of the WSO2 podcast, hosts Sanjiva and Asanka are joined by special guest Daniel Bryant to explore the evolving practice of platform engineering through the lens of software architecture.
Podcasts and Webinars
In this episode of the FINOS podcast, Grizz Griswold interviews Chris Plank from NatWest Bank and Derik Evangelista from Syntasso. They delve into the evolution of platform engineering, open-source technologies, and how NatWest uses cloud-native tools to deliver platforms as a product.
In this episode of the Engineering Enablement podcast, Abi and Laura introduce the DX Core 4, a new framework designed to simplify how organizations measure developer productivity.
The InfoQ team discusses AI's rise as a ubiquitous enabler, the growing focus on green software, platform engineering’s mainstream emergence, and the ongoing challenges of balancing human and technical evolution.
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