Platform Engineering
“Wait a minute, you can actually delete infrastructure via pull requests? Yes, you can... Kubernetes is your friend. But like any friendship you have to invest."
How to actually describe an application in a way that includes all the technical details about its life cycle dependencies is actually pretty important…
"Instead of building yet another wrapper script or deploying a bunch of custom automation to hide the Terraform spaghetti, you just define an object and let the system maintain it for you..."
"We have to make sure we’re building a team where people are happy to work"
Databricks and Snowflake alike have bought Postgres providers. Why the flurry of action?
11 million lines of code; multiple platforms; one build system; a "massive undertaking" but some big wins
"A linear hype cycle really doesn’t reflect the variety of pathways organisations can take to productivity