Platform Engineering

Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH
In this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work ...

US DoJ Makes PyPI Give Up User Data ¦ Tape Storage: Not Dead
In this week’s #TheLongView: PyPI complies with a “string of subpoenas,” and LTO continues to grow, despite predictions of its demise ...

Dell Looks to Expand Pool of Available DevOps Expertise
Dell Technologies has quietly launched a training and education initiative to significantly expand the number of IT professionals that have DevOps skills. Brad Maltz, senior director for DevOps and developer relations ecosystems ...

Red Hat Unveils Developer Hub to Boost Dev Productivity
At its Red Hat Summit conference today, Red Hat unveiled its Red Hat Developer Hub, a developer portal that provides access to an opinionated set of development tools based on the open ...

What’s the Difference Between DevOps and Platform Engineering?
The DevOps space is buzzing with a new trend—platform engineering. Platform engineering has been gaining steam over the last few years but has really peaked in interest lately. In fact, according to ...

Spotify Adds More Plugins for Backstage Developer Portal
Spotify this week added additional plugins for its open source Backstage platform that is used to build developer portals. The new plugins make it simpler to address role-based access and access Insights, ...

How Good Developers Become Good Engineering Managers
Being a good engineering manager means that, to some degree, you have a natural affinity for the work involved. And if you’re a good developer, you likely already have some of those ...

Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
In this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble ...

Platform Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail
Developer platforms and the platform teams that create them have been the center of attention for quite some time now. There have been many (wildly different) opinions about the subject, ranging from ...

How Platform Engineering Makes Software Sustainable
The world is constantly becoming more and more aware of the importance of sustainability in every aspect of our daily lives from buying groceries to traveling, and the IT world is no ...

Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder ...

Orgs Shift Toward Centralizing Automation Initiatives
A survey published today found that 75% of respondents recognized that automation silos hamper their ability to unify cloud operations across functions. Conducted by CloudBolt Software, the survey polled 350 senior IT ...