Check out my latest Syntasso blog 'Automating Platform Abstractions: The Power of the Promise API' 🏗️

- Innovate, leverage, commoditize (platform services)
- A rising abstraction lifts all boats (K8s++)
- The Promise of offering everything-as-a-service

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Another fun Syntasso company get-together last night! And who knew, everyone is super competitive with ping pong (I blame the Pivotal influence 😂) 🏓

Some of the most successful Java EE projects I worked on succeeded due to the choice of middleware. Will we see this 'middleware' analogy expand into platform engineering? 🏗

While the frontend and backend of systems are important, when implemented effectively, the APIs,

The #1 Platform Engineering Problem You've Never Heard Of: Platform Decay syntasso.io/post/the-1-pla… < I see a lot written about how to define and set up an internal dev platform. Less about keeping it healthy. Abby Bangser and Daniel Bryant have advice.

Great summary of the core platform engineering topics at #KubeCon by Torsten Volk at The New Stack! 🏗️

'In the swiftly expanding landscape of cloud native technologies, platform engineering is progressively centering on creating proficient abstractions and implementing AI-driven

My latest Syntasso blog post summarises Abby Bangser's excellent webinar from last week -> 'The #1 Platform Engineering Problem You've Never Heard Of: Platform Decay (Webinar Recap)'

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A whistle-stop tour of the CNCF TAG App Delivery Platform Engineering Maturity Model with Abby Bangser and Lou

'Naming the aspects and levels was super challenging (naming is hard!), but this is where the fun discussions happened!'

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Kicking off the Gitpod webinar with Abby Bangser from Syntasso and Lou, with 'why now' for platform engineering 🏗️

'With IaC becoming more stable, we now see software engineering principles applied to building platforms. Combining this with scaling the 'DevOps thinking'

Ah! You should pay other companies to do it, always, to the extent that they can.

But every company needs a (thin?) layer of customization between their PaaS and their applications. Glue code, pipelines, component configs. That you will always have to build yourself.

This X thread from the ever-insightful Kelsey Hightower has been living in my head rent-free for the past week. The entire discussion is worth reading, but the final statement particularly caught my attention: “Eventually, you'll end up automating the abstractions and repeating

Excellent summary of andyburgin's #QConLondon talk, 'Curating a Developer Experience - A Hands-on Guide for Platform Engineers'

'Recognising the potential of DevEx to enhance productivity and foster collaboration and empathy between teams, Burgin explained how the container

Did you miss the Syntasso webinar with Abby Bangser and me yesterday? Have no fear; the recording is here 😃

'The #1 Platform Engineering Problem You've Never Heard Of: Platform Decay'

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Join Abby Bangser and Daniel Bryant tomorrow (Thursday, May 9th) at 3pm for a webinar covering 'The #1 Platform Engineering Problem You've Never Heard Of: Platform Decay'

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Explore the #InfoQ #SoftwareArchitecture Trends Report for a comprehensive overview of key topics worthy of attention: bit.ly/3VNKvPo

💪 Knowledge is power! #StayAhead #StayInformed #SoftwareTrends

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Many thanks for the shoutout, Bilgin 🙏

Join Abby Bangser for a Syntasso webinar on 'Platform Decay' next week, May 9th, 10am EDT / 3pm BST (with me hosting!)

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Look what arrived today! Shout out to Jason and Flynn for putting together this great guide, and it was a lot of fun to review 📚

If you’re implementing Linkerd (or considering it), this is a great read 🤓