The 9 Steps to Platform Engineering Hell

Descend down into the dark world of platform engineering hell with Luca Galante from the platform engineering community. Learn how platform engineering done wrong, can turn out so terribly - and everything you have to do to do thing right.

Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era. Platform engineers provide an integrated product most often referred to as an “Internal Developer Platform” covering the operational necessities of the entire lifecycle of an application.

[YordisPrieto]

1:14 Step 3 is probably the most important one. I have been doing Platform Eng years before we gave it name, and I can state enough that:

Successful Platform engineering is done (most of the time) by talented product devs but with different Customers base (developer), with a clear goal of making THEM productive by clear quantifiable metrics (I challenge you to quantify the cost of being wrong!)

But more often than not, companies rebrand SREs; it is the fastest way to create the biggest and most costly mistakes ever.

SREs are extremely critical, but PaaS and IaaS are two completely different set of problems and required different experience.

[shankars]

Platform Engineering should enforce cost control factors through some of its key pillars or some internal budgets for each individual project because developer friendly interfaces may excites developers to spin up/provision excessive resources on infrastructure side.