The Pitfall of Platform Engineering

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1 The Pitfall of Platform Engineering

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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

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3 The Evolution of Collaboration between Dev & Ops Platform Engineering Ops Dev DevOps “One team fits all”

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4 Why Platform Engineering? Shifting infrastructure responsibilities into software engineering teams will lead to increased cognitive load.

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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 +

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6 The Approach Cloud Platform Layer Application Layer Abstraction, tailored to the specific needs

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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 ⚡

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Platform Engineering is powerful. But running a dedicated team is costly and not for everyone. So what?

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9 Our Approach Common Improvements Team A Team B Team C No dedicated team! But: All Software Engineering Teams contribute to common platform improvements

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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 … &

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11 Blueprints - Terraform Modules Core Module Bundles AWS resources with safe presets Core Module Use Case Module Solves a specific use case

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12 Blueprints - Tools / Approaches Migration / discovery scripts Easier and more secure deployments from CI/CD to AWS

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Take away(s)

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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 …

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15 Let‘s connect Jan Ritter Principal Software Engineer André Neubauer Chief Technology Officer