How the Cloud Foundry Community Can Help Platform Engineering

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Platform Engineering has rocketed into popularity as the successor to DevOps and SRE. That discipline’s focus is on building and improving developer experience. Sounds familiar, right? Indeed, this has been the focus of the Cloud Foundry community from the beginning and - it works! This talk will explain what platform engineering is and suggest ways the two communities can help each other. Examples include: a product management mindset, internal advocacy & marketing, services and developer tools to build. The talk draws on years of real world experience at organizations. Past version of this presentation: I've given the content of this presentation several times, but I haven't framed it in this way at all. I'd reuse the same best practices, but the format of the presentation would be as I outline above, speaking to the two communities rather than giving end-users some best practices and advice to follow.

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Transcript

1. 1 Hello. Welcome to my ongoing therapy session
2. 2 How the Cloud Foundry Community Can Help Platform Engineering Coté - June 21st, 2023 Or, enduring truths of platform communities, ecosystems, and businesses
3. 3 By talking about yourself(s)
4. 4 Hello, I am Coté I work at cote.io
5. 5 2007 2015 2023 & Beyond The Eternal Recurrence of (Platforms, PaaS, DevOps, Cloud Native) (╯°□°）╯ ┻━┻) (╯°□°）╯ ┻━┻) Sources: Heroku; Pivotal; CNCF Platforms White Paper. See also Evan Bottcher, 2018, "Innovation Insight for Internal Developer Portals,” Gartner, Feb 2022.
6. 6 “cf push” Be clear Sources: "Innovation Insight for Internal Developer Portals,” Gartner, Feb 2022.
7. 7 Focus on developers (application developers) We are building this platform not for us, we are building it for Mercedes-Benz developers.” Thomas Müller, Mercedes-Benz “ Source: Manjunath Bhat, Gartner in LinkedIn. See also CNCF platform maturity model working group.
8. 8 Explain the value (get super detailed)
9. 9 Community = (purpose + ​ technology + ​ builders + ​ users)
10. 10 Thanks! 📨 https://newsletter.cote.io 📚 https://cote.io/platform/ 🏢 cotem@vmware.com Slides & stuff