The Future of Platform Engineering

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1. The Future of Platform Engineering The Future of Platform Engineering Jemma Hussein Allen Navigating the path to future innovations and beyond Navigating the path to future innovations and beyond
2. ABOUT ME @jemmahallen https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmaallengineer/ Platform Engineering & automation focused Technical Lead
3. HOW DO WE BUILD AN APPLICATION THAT DOES X AND DELIVER IT TO END USERS IN A SECURE, RELIABLE WAY?
4. OVERVIEW 03 04 05 PLATFORM ENGINEERING 2024 01 NEW TOOLS ON THE HORIZON RECAP WHAT ARE ENGINEERS LEARNING? INTERNAL DEVELOPER PLATFORMS 02
5. PLATFORM ENGINEERING HUMANITEC The discipline of designing and building Internal Developer Platforms, toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations. MICROSOFT A practice built up from DevOps principles that seeks to improve each development team’s security, compliance, costs, and time-to-business value through improved developer experiences and self-service within a secure, governed framework. GITLAB An emerging approach to software development that accelerates production and deployment velocity by providing DevOps teams with a single self-service portal for tools and workflows.
6. PLATFORM ENGINEERING BUILDING SELF-SERVICE TOOLING TO ALLOW DEVELOPERS TO DELIVER BUSINESS VALUE AS QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE
7. PLATFORM ENGINEERING IN 2024
8. PLATFORM ENGINEERING IN 2024 • Gartner - Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2024 • Humanitec - State of Platform Engineering, volumes 1 & 2 • ThoughtWorks - Technology radar https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2024 https://humanitec.com/whitepapers https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/radar/techniques/platform-engineering-product-teams
9. THE BUSINESS VALUE OF A COMPANY’S PLATFORM IS TO ACCELERATE THE DELIVERY OF ITS UNIQUE SELLING POINT
10. WHAT DOES GOOD LOOK LIKE? https://www.syntasso.io/post/syntasso-donates-first-version-of-platform-maturity-model-to-cncf-working-group
11. INTERNAL DEVELOPER PLATFORMS 01 02 05 04 03 APPLICATION CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT DEPLOYMENT MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE ORCHESTRATION https://internaldeveloperplatform.org/core-components/
12. TO SUPPORT INNOVATION, PLATFORM ENGINEERING TOOLCHAINS AND WORKFLOWS NEED TO EVOLVE AT A PACE THAT CAN SPEED UP DEPLOYMENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
13. https://www.pulumi.com/ai
14. PULUMI AI
15. PULUMI AI
16. PULUMI AI
17. PULUMI AI • Good, but doesn’t yet handle some common scenarios • Company specific logic requires additional information in prompts
18. https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/about-github-copilot
19. GITHUB CO-PILOT
20. GITHUB CO-PILOT
21. GITHUB CO-PILOT
22. GENERATIVE AI FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE WILL SPEED UP THE CREATION OF PLATFORM BUILDING BLOCKS
23. CNCF PROJECTS
24. CNCF SANDBOX PROJECTS
25. CNCF SANDBOX PROJECTS - K8sGPT • Can triage and diagnose issues in simple English • Out of the box integration with OpenAI, Azure, Cohere, Amazon Bedrock, Google Gemini, Hugging Face and local models https://www.cncf.io/projects/k8sgpt/
26. NEW PROJECTS WILL NEED TO SUPPORT A PLUG AND PLAY ARCHITECTURE
27. WHAT ARE ENGINEERS LEARNING? ‘Baby Boomer’: 1946 - 1964 Gen X: 1965 - 1979 Millennials: 1980 - 1994 Gen Z: 1995 - 2012 Gen Alpha: 2013 - 2025 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-compensation-strategy-ready-generation-z-alpha-lisa/
28. WHAT ARE ENGINEERS LEARNING? New developers - new to the workforce • Boot camps • Degree or other technical courses • Company schemes New developers - career changers • Boot camps • Degree courses • Self-taught • Company specific training (career change within company) Existing developers • Company specific training • Community events • Focused technical training courses
29. MOVING INTO A TECHNICAL CAREER IS MORE ACCESSIBLE THAN EVER, AND A MORE DIVERSE WORKFORCE MEANS MORE INNOVATION
30. RECAP • Platform Engineering in 2024 • Internal Developer Platforms • New Tools on the Horizon • How are engineers learning?
31. REFERENCES • Humanitec - State of Platform Engineering • Gartner - Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2024 • Internaldeveloperplatform.org - IDP Core Components • InfoQ - Culture & Methods Trends Report 2024 • Pulumi AI • Syntasso - Platform Maturity Model • Github Co-Pilot
32. THANK YOU ANY QUESTIONS? @jemmahallen https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmaallengineer/