Effective Platform Engineering

Build the kind of software engineering platforms developers love to use!An effective developer platform means one thing: productivity. Effective Platform Engineering introduces platform engineering as a discipline, teaching you what goes into a great developer platform and then showing you how to develop your own.In Effective Platform Engineering, youll learn to deliver:Improved business outcomesProduct management strategiesSecure, scalable Kubernetes-based engineering platformsEffective Service Level Objectives to boost trust and adoptionModern control plane patterns that streamline developer workflowsEffective Platform Engineering shows you how to establish and administer the kind of platforms that reduce a dev teams workload, improve consistency, and accelerate software delivery. Organized in three partsfoundations, building, and scalingit blends mental models, patterns, and runnable examples to help you go from MVP to production-grade platform. Youll learn how to treat platforms as products and demonstrate their value by improving engineering outcomes and delivering measurable business impact. Youll love the books informed guidance and practical insights on satisfying stakeholders and driving organizational success.Foreword by Kief Morris.About the technologyPlatform engineering is the discipline of building internal developer platforms (IDPs) that automate and simplify the software development lifecycle. IDPs provide self-service interfaces to tools and services for infrastructure, deployment, security, observability, and governance, and reduce the need for developers to master complex technologies like Kubernetes. Because they match the specific needs of an organization, well-engineered IDPs can reduce development time by half while delivering better software.About the bookWith Effective Platform Engineering youll be able to design, build, deploy, and scale a custom IDP. Youll discover how platform engineering differs from DevOps and learn to create a platform that evolves with changing requirements. Diagrams, code samples, and exercises help you visualize important concepts. Along the way, youll explore critical topics like gathering requirements and establishing realistic service level agreements (SLAs).What's insideAutomated application workflowsScalable Kubernetes-based platformsA well-designed control planeCustom APIsAbout the readerFor software engineers, SREs, and DevOps engineers.About the authorAjay Chankramath is the Founder and CEO of Platformetrics. Nic Cheneweth and Bryan Oliver are Principal Consultants at Thoughtworks. Sean Alvarez is the CTO of Life Sciences at Brillio.Table of ContentsPart 11 What is platform engineering?2 Software-defined products and architectures3 Measuring your way to platform engineering successPart 24 Governance, compliance, and trust5 Evolutionary observability6 Building a software-defined engineering platform7 Platform control plane foundations8 Control plane services and extensionsPart 39 Architecture changes to support scale10 Platform product evolutionA Solutions to the exercises