SNL #17: Platform Breakthrough or Bust, Multi-tenancy IDPs & kro
- Daniel Bryant
- Feb 20
- 2 min read
Welcome to the February round-up of the essential platform engineering news. We are still keen to learn more about the top priority of your platform engineering efforts. Are you struggling with:
Finding time to explore new technologies?
Learning how to establish and lead platform teams?
Understanding how to build/buy/blend your way to creating a platform?
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Articles
Is platform engineering at a crossroads? Will it fulfil its promise or fade away? At the State of Open Con, a panel weighed what was ahead for the movement. A nice write-up from Jen Riggins that features our Paula Kennedy.
Amy Yuan discusses how the internal adoption of the four new (platform-focused) systems increased from 10-20% to 90-95% over a year.
Artem Lajko explores the key role of Platform Engineering teams in building Kubernetes-based Platforms.
News
This study reveals many interesting findings that can guide the detection and testing of operator bugs, as well as the development of more reliable operators.
A decade into development, the world’s top container orchestrator is more extensible than ever. But usability is still playing catch up with complexity.
This is an interesting blog from Udi Hofesh on a new technology that is generating a lot of buzz.
Webinars
Steve Smith asks at a recent GOTO event why is it so easy to screw up platform engineering and how do you undo the damage?
Whitney and Viktor explore UIs that are typically used as a "portal" into the platform. And it's Backstage versus Port in this episode.
Podcasts
Abi Noda and team explore DevEx vs devprod, exec buy-in, and developer self-service.
An interesting conversation with Massdriver co-founder Dave Williams, where he challenges conventional wisdom around cloud infrastructure management.
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