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Platform Engineering for Architects

You're reading from Platform Engineering for Architects Crafting modern platforms as a product

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781836203599

Length 374 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Hilliary Lipsig

Max Körbächer

Andreas Grabner

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – An Introduction to Platform Engineering and Architecture

2. Chapter 1: Platform Engineering and the Art of Crafting Platforms FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Platform Architecture to Build Platform as a Product

4. Chapter 3: Building the Foundation for Supporting Platform Capabilities

5. Part 2 – Designing and Crafting Platforms

6. Chapter 4: Architecting the Platform Core – Kubernetes as a Unified Layer

7. Chapter 5: Integration, Delivery, and Deployment – Automation is Ubiquitous

8. Chapter 6: Build for Developers and Their Self-Service

9. Part 3 – Platforms as a Product Best Practices

10. Chapter 7: Building Secure and Compliant Products

11. Chapter 8: Cost Management and Best Practices

12. Chapter 9: Choosing Technical Debt to Unbreak Platforms

13. Chapter 10: Crafting Platform Products for the Future

14. Index

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Choosing Technical Debt to Unbreak Platforms

What is technical debt and how does it unbreak a platform? Technical debt is the ongoing cost of maintenance for a piece of software. This is the literal money that’s spent on the runtime environment, the time spent operating and updating it, and customer satisfaction. Just like monetary debt, technical debt can pile up. As the amount snowballs, the team can’t incur new debt or deliver new features as all their working hours are spent on mitigating the current issues.

Indicators that a team is inundated with technical debt are easy to spot: are your teams attempting to maintain extremely outdated software? Do you have systems that are operationally fragile and/or prone to crashing? Do you use unnecessarily complex software?

If you answer any of those questions with yes, there’s a corresponding cost. For instance, updating, securing, and operating outdated software ranges from very costly to impractical. Operationally...

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Authors (3)

Max Körbächer

Max Körbächer

Max Körbächer is a technology advisor and platform architect who focuses on utilizing cloud-native technologies and open source to simplify the challenges of complex systems. He is the founder and managing director of Liquid Reply, a cloud-native engineering and consulting company. His work history includes roles as an enterprise architect in the media and power utility industry and as a demand manager planning medium and large IT projects. Max is also the founder and, currently, co-chair of the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group, CNCF Ambassador, Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board member, and initiator and organizer of the Kubernetes Community Days Munich and Ukraine.

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Hilliary Lipsig

Hilliary Lipsig

Hilliary Lipsig is an autodidact and start-up veteran who has frequently learned and applied technologies to get a job done. She's had her hand in every part of the application delivery process, honing her skills originally as a quality engineer. Hilliary is an IT polyglot, able to talk the lingo of both the Operations and Development teams. She's currently a Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Red Hat Inc., working on Kubernetes-based platforms. She's passionate about GitOps, continuous integration, scalable processes, consistency in tooling, and good developer documentation. Her open source activities include contributions to the CNCF Glossary and she's a member of the Code of Conduct Committee for Kubernetes.

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Andreas Grabner

Andreas Grabner

Andreas Grabner is a technical advocate for making distributed systems observable and making automated data-driven decisions across the software development lifecycle. In his capacity as a CNCF ambassador and a DevRel at Dynatrace, he connects and educates global software engineering communities on building and continuously validating digital services for resiliency, high availability, and security. Since his early days, he has been passionate about software quality and performance engineering as it results in building excellent digital products. Andi uses his advocacy platforms to share best practices on topics such as observability, progressive delivery, DevOps, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, and digital business operations!

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