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What is platform engineering?

Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era. Platform engineers provide an integrated product most often referred to as an “Internal Developer Platform” covering the operational necessities of the entire lifecycle of an application.

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9 steps to platform engineering hell

Platform engineering done right can be a huge boost to developer productivity but when done wrong, can take you full speed down a brand new staircase to hell.

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7 steps to DevOps hell

The truth is... DevOps doesn’t scale at enterprise sized setups (breaking point is approx. >50-80 devs). Lucky for us, there are clear signals that can tell you how far down the DevOps trap your organization is. Welcome to the steps to DevOps hell.

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Bringing together FinOps, DevOps, and platform engineering

Discover how to achieve cloud cost efficiency through the power of platforms, by combining proven and efficient engineering practices.

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Head of Platform Engineering at Thoughtworks North America

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How to architect Internal Developer Platforms for multicloud

Kaspar von Gruenberg

CEO @ Humanitec

Dec 12, 2023

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Enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform with Humanitec and Cortex

Anish Dhar

Cofounder & CEO @ Cortex

Kaspar von Gruenberg

CEO @ Humanitec

Dec 14, 2023

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Designing respectful abstractions

Kaspar von Gruenberg

CEO @ Humanitec

Dec 19, 2023

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