Posts Tagged platform-engineering

With 62% of large organizations already using multi-cloud (Cloud Computing News), business leaders are looking for their next competitive advantage. Finding these next-gen business edges can be a real challenge, but some innovative organizations are discovering that time to market can be a big competitive lever. They are accelerating their development cycles by up to 70% and seizing opportunities to build new markets, establish new brands and capture market share. This Time To Market (TTM) advantage can apply to entire markets as well as any aspect of your product or service connected to the cloud.

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Infrastructure management is all fun and games until you find yourself scrolling through 1000+ resources in your AWS console. Worse, when one rogue product team wants to use Azure and your data team wants to be on GCP, you’re ARM wrestling in Azure and watching your economies of scale tip the wrong direction as you’re copy-pasting CloudFormation templates into yet another git repo. This. Needs. To. Be. A. Platform!

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In today’s complex digital landscape, organizations are increasingly turning to platform engineering to optimise their software delivery processes and maximize efficiency. The growing complexity of modern applications, coupled with the need for rapid, secure, and scalable deployments, has created a pressing demand for robust Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). IDPs are a key component of modern platform engineering strategies. An IDP is a self-service layer that sits on top of an organization’s infrastructure, abstracting away complexity and providing developers with the tools and environments they need to build, test, and deploy applications efficiently.

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The Platform Engineering & DevOps in-person series launched in Berlin with two great speakers. This blog article is an overview of Dominik Kress’s talk, “What the Heck is the CNCF Platform Working Group? Answers from a Member!” in which he discussed Cloud-Native Platforms, The Platform Maturity Model, and approaching Platforms as Products.

In this article, you’ll learn more about platform engineering and how you can get involved with the CNCF Platform Working Group. Make sure to check our Platform Engineering & DevOps Series to find a meetup near you.

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The cloud promised to revolutionize your business. Faster innovation. Lower costs. Unlimited scalability. But for many companies, that promise remains frustratingly out of reach. Instead of accelerating product development, infrastructure has become a bottleneck. You and your team (DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering teams) are bogged down by: Clunky tools and manual processes Provisioning a simple test environment takes days Rolling out updates across regions takes weeks The combinations of modern cloud architectures seems infinite You know there has to be a better way.

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We are excited to announce the kickoff of the Platform Engineering & DevOps Series, which will run from July 16 to October 31. This series will feature in-person events across various cities, including Berlin, London, Paris, Sydney, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Denver, and NYC. For those unable to attend an in-person event, we encourage you to participate in a virtual DevOps & Platform Engineering workshop.

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Last October we launched Pulumi ESC, a new secrets and configuration management offering from Pulumi that manages and tames secrets and configuration complexity across all of your cloud applications and infrastructure. We’ve seen incredible adoption of ESC over the last 6 months, with thousands of developers now managing their secrets and configuration via ESC.

Today, we are excited to announce the most significant collection of Pulumi ESC enhancements since the initial launch, with three major new features that bring best-in-class software engineering capabilities to bear on your Secrets and Configuration management needs.

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We are excited to announce the support for authoring Azure Deployment Environments (ADE) environment definitions in Pulumi Infrastructure as Code (IaC) empowering developers to self-serve app infrastructure required to deploy and test cloud-based applications. With Pulumi support, you can now manage your Azure resources in these environments using the same familiar programming model and the full power of our IaC platform.

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We’re constantly evolving the New Project Wizard to make it the preferred choice for platform teams to empower their internal teams to deploy resources quickly and in adherence to organizational standards. In January, we launched the Developer Portal Gallery to boost development velocity and reduce operational friction. Since then, we have seen strong adoption from our customers and received several new requests. We are excited to share the latest improvements we’ve made.

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“Developer experience is hard to sell,” said Cleve Littlefield, Engineering Manager at Pulumi, during a casual meeting. With experience as both an end-user developer and a lead in self-service platform implementation, Cleve’s observation stuck with me.

Though I have expertise in leading implementations and upgrades for internal platforms, none were specifically for developers. However, experience remains vital across departments, addressing tools, processes, systems, and best practices, aiming to reduce cognitive load, increase productivity, enhance collaboration, boost communication and much more.

Intriguingly, engineering teams may perceive its value differently. Therefore, we will dive into the concept of developer experience, aka DevEx, which, in truth, should translate into a competitive advantage.

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