The Pitfall of Platform Engineering

- What is platform engineering?
- What are the goals?
- What pitfalls exist when entering for platform engineering?
- How we implemented Platform Engineering without a central team.

1. 1 The Pitfall of Platform Engineering
2. 2 Who we are and what we do • Europe’s leading trust brand • >30K business customers • >30M consumer • ~100 engineers • >1B impressions/ month • Container + serverless @ AWS Jan Ritter Principal Software Engineer #infrastructure #operations André Neubauer Chief Technology Officer #leadership #techpowerhouse
3. 3 The Evolution of Collaboration between Dev & Ops Platform Engineering Ops Dev DevOps “One team fits all”
4. 4 Why Platform Engineering? Shifting infrastructure responsibilities into software engineering teams will lead to increased cognitive load.
5. 5 Why Platform Engineering? Separating infrastructure ground work from adopting it keeps focus of software engineering teams while running on a resilient platform. Software Engineering Team Platform Engineering Team +
6. 6 The Approach Cloud Platform Layer Application Layer Abstraction, tailored to the specific needs
7. 7 The Platform Engineering Pitfall Team A Team B Team C Platform Engineering Team Separating infrastructure ground work results in organizational dependencies To ensure they don’t become toxic, Platform Engineering needs to be stuffed sufficiently ⚡
8. Platform Engineering is powerful. But running a dedicated team is costly and not for everyone. So what?
9. 9 Our Approach Common Improvements Team A Team B Team C No dedicated team! But: All Software Engineering Teams contribute to common platform improvements
10. 10 Guidelines Created together including guardrails, examples, tips and tricks ➜ Establishing a common understanding Blueprints Deriving common improvements for everyone from tackling your local problem Distinguish between … &
11. 11 Blueprints - Terraform Modules Core Module Bundles AWS resources with safe presets Core Module Use Case Module Solves a specific use case
12. 12 Blueprints - Tools / Approaches Migration / discovery scripts Easier and more secure deployments from CI/CD to AWS
13. Take away(s)
14. 14 Take away(s) 1. Platform is a powerful tool to build a high-quality infrastructure/ environment. 2. It’s not about an organizational setup but a standardized approach to simplify infrastructure. 3. If you have a dedicated team, stuff it sufficiently. 4. If you follow a decentralized approach, ensure alignment. Many roads lead to Rome …
15. 15 Let‘s connect Jan Ritter Principal Software Engineer André Neubauer Chief Technology Officer