Welcome to the second October 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
Ritesh Patel argues why IDPs designed on these principles simplify operations for platform teams and enable developers to move faster and more securely.
An internal platform can deliver exceptional value, but to reach its full potential, it makes sense to move away from developing platforms in single-player mode and go multiplayer mode to supercharge your developer experience.
The ever-thought-provoking Hazel Weakly discusses how she likes to "home roll abstractions but commoditize implementations."
Moving from monolithic to microservices architecture demands platform engineering and observability, but it also presents new challenges to Adidas’s site reliability engineering team.
Tech News
This is an interesting overview of how Monzo's migrations are managed by a central team rather than service owner teams to avoid delays and inconsistencies.
I had a play around with Google's Notebook LM and generated two platform engineering-themed podcasts with robot hosts :)
This workshop uses Backstage to automate the creation of new repositories, including some custom tasks.
Presentations and Video
William Rizzo, Lead Architect Consultant at Suse, discusses the principles of product management applied to platform engineering, including user-centric design, continuous improvement, and value-driven development.
John Dietz chats with Kelsey Hightower about the tech industry, Kubernetes, GitOps, and more!
An interesting talk recording from KCD Chattogram that explores everything from Team Topologies to getting started with Backstage.
Podcasts and Webinars
A fascinating exploration of Max's learning (and influence) while working on developer productivity and platform building at Google and LinkedIn.
In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Adam Kentosh, Field CTO @Digital.ai, about organisations' ongoing challenges in their DevOps, DevSecOps and digital transformation journeys.
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