Platform Engineering: It's Not What You Think It Is

Platform Engineering Meetup Vienna

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1. @duffleit David Leitner Platform Engineering: It's Not What You Think It Is
2. @duffleit You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means. — Inigo Montoya
3. @duffleit DAVID LEITNER Principal Engineer 👋 david@squer.io 🌎 @duffleit
4. @duffleit Operating Systems Compilers Virtual Machines Assembler Frameworks Prompts / LLMs 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 There is no other industry out there that is as good at introducing new abstractions as we are. — Ted Neward
5. @duffleit Monolithical Systems
6. @duffleit Distributed Systems Elasticity Resilient Easy to Extend Continously Deployed
7. @duffleit Distributed Systems Elasticity Resilient Continously Deployed Easy to Extend
8. @duffleit speakerdeck.com/squer/cultivating-architecture-in-an-agile-world-2019 1⃣ 2⃣ 3⃣
9. @duffleit Distributed Systems 👧 🧑 🧑 👧 🧑 🧑 Microservices aren’t just about scaling your software architecture but scaling your teams. They are an organizational scaling strategy. You build it, you run it. — Werner Vogels
10. @duffleit Accountability Autonomy You build iT you run it
11. @duffleit Accountability ops will Block The Devs will Quit Autonomy You build it you Own it You build it you care it You Build it You run it
12. @duffleit Software Development Operations
13. @duffleit Operations Software Development DevOps 2009
14. @duffleit Software Development Project Management Operations Software Development DevOps 2009
15. @duffleit Project Management Software Development Agile Manifesto 2001 Operations Software Development DevOps 2009
16. @duffleit Project Management Software Development Agile Manifesto 2001 Operations Software Development DevOps 2009 Software Development Product Engineering
17. @duffleit Product Engineering Project Management Software Development Agile Manifesto 2001 Operations Software Development DevOps 2009 Software Development DDD 2004 UX/CX 1999
18. @duffleit Product Engineering Project Management Software Development Agile Manifesto 2001 Operations Software Development DevOps 2009 Software Development DDD 2004 UX/CX 1999 Quality Assurance & Testing Software Development
19. @duffleit Product Engineering Project Management Software Development Agile Manifesto 2001 Operations Software Development DevOps 2009 Software Development DDD 2004 UX/CX 1999 Quality Assurance & Testing Software Development Unit Testing 1997 There is a constant strive for shift-left in our industry. Which has heavily increased mental load within the engineering teams.
20. @duffleit We can
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22. @duffleit 👧 🧑 🧑 Shift Left
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26. @duffleit We can solve any problem by introducing an additional layer. — fundamental theorem of software engineering (FTSE) 👧 🧑 🧑 Layers
27. @duffleit 👧 🧑 🧑 Platform
28. @duffleit Platform (AWS, GPC, Azure, …) 👧 🧑 🧑 Platform
29. @duffleit Platform (AWS, GPC, Azure, …) 👧 🧑 🧑 Platform Topic
30. @duffleit 👧 🧑 🧑 Platform 👧 🧑 🧑 Innovation Speed Reusage Standardisation Robustness
31. @duffleit 👧 🧑 🧑 Platform 👧 🧑 🧑 Innovation Harmonization Good Platforms enable Innovation by Harmonization. — Gregor Hohpe You can have it in any color as long as it’s black — Henry Ford
32. @duffleit 👧 🧑 🧑 Platform 👧 🧑 🧑 Innovation Harmonization Good Platforms enable Innovation by Harmonization. — Gregor Hohpe
33. @duffleit Specific Things Common Things Config Unified Interface Complex Tech Diverse Applications Platforms enable diverse Applications on unified interfaces. Reusage
34. @duffleit Diverse Lower Invesment Differentiator Standardization High Invesment No Differentiator If your users haven't built anything that surprises you, then you probably haven't developed a good platform.
35. @duffleit Specific Things Common Things Config Unified Interface Complex Tech Diverse Applications Platforms enable diverse Applications on unified interfaces. without limiting the Problem Space We constraint the Solution Space
36. @duffleit Specific Things Common Things Config Unified Interface Complex Tech Diverse Applications Economies of Scale. Economies of Speed.
37. @duffleit Platforms focus on accelerating the speed of delivery rather than on reuse and standardization.
38. @duffleit Abstractions We do this by useful
39. @duffleit Infrastructure Centric View, based on Composition. Deploy a New Application Pod Namespace Autoscale Database Table TOPIC Alters Monitors Readmodel 👩💻 Container Database KafkaTopic Dashboards Readmodel
40. @duffleit Developer Centric View, based on Abstractions. Deploy a New Application Pod Namespace Autoscale Database Table TOPIC Alters Monitors Readmodel 👩💻 Stateful Appliaction Event Processor Chron Job
41. @duffleit Developer Centric View, based on Abstractions. Deploy a New Application Pod Namespace Autoscale Database Table TOPIC Alters Monitors Readmodel 👩💻 Stateful Appliaction Event Processor Chron Job
42. @duffleit Developer Centric View, based on Abstractions. Deploy a New Application Pod Namespace Autoscale Database Table TOPIC Alters Monitors Readmodel 👩💻 Stateful Appliaction Event Processor Chron Job
43. @duffleit Platform Interfaces are mainly about Abstractions and less about Composition.
44. @duffleit Your Platform Base Platform Base Platform Your Platform Sinking Platform 😔 Base Platform Your Platform Floating Platform ⛴
45. @duffleit Platform Interfaces are mainly about Abstractions and less about Composition.
46. @duffleit Great Platforms are not built from green-field.
47. @duffleit Great Platforms are harvested.
48. @duffleit blog.codinghorror.com/rule-of-three/
49. @duffleit The Platform Team 👧 🧑 🧑
50. @duffleit Platform Infrastructure Application Development Innovation Standardisation Robustness Speed Economies of Scale. Economies of Speed.
51. @duffleit Infrastructure Application Development Innovation Standardisation Robustness Platform Speed Competing Goals Make explicit what you are optimizing for. & Measure it
52. @duffleit Application Development Innovation Platform Useful Abstractions 👧 🧑 🧑 Product
53. @duffleit Platform Useful Abstractions 👧 🧑 🧑 Product Application Development Team Application Development Team Customers & Measure Customer Satisfaction Net Promoter Score Dora Metrics
54. @duffleit Consider your Platform as a Product, and staff it like that.
55. @duffleit Ok, Let’s sum up.
56. @duffleit When autonomous teams* are your organizational scaling strategy, then mental load within those teams becomes your biggest obstacle, and platform engineering your most promising ally in overcoming it.
57. @duffleit When autonomous teams* are your organizational scaling strategy, then mental load within those teams becomes your biggest obstacle, and platform engineering your most promising ally in overcoming it.
58. @duffleit When autonomous teams* are your organizational scaling strategy, then mental load within those teams becomes your biggest obstacle, and platform engineering your most promising ally in overcoming it.
59. @duffleit Platform Engineering values accelerating delivery over maximizing reuse and standardization. 🚀 Platforms are most effective when harvested rather than approached as greenfield projects. 🪵 Great platforms define useful abstractions over leaky compositions. 🧿 We treat and measure platform teams as product teams, and staff them accordingly. 🧑 🧑
60. @duffleit DAVID LEITNER Principal Engineer 👋 david@squer.io 🌎 @duffleit Slides