The Benefits of Self-Service Infrastructure
Self-service infrastructure offers numerous advantages that help businesses become more efficient and agile.
Preparing for the Shift to Platform Engineering
Organizations must proactively navigate newly emerging trends within platform engineering to remain competitive.
Atlassian Makes Compass IDP Generally Available
Atlassian’s Compass provides an instance of an IDP that is simpler for DevOps teams to set up and maintain.
Tips For Managing Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
While the internal developer platform (IDP) concept is still relatively new, some best practices are beginning to emerge.
Daytona Unfurls Developer Environment for On-Premises IT
Daytona has launched a development environment for on-premises IT environments that provides all the benefits of a cloud-based alternative.
Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Reference Architectures
IDPs have been the talk of the town. But what does an IDP actually look like? Bill Doerrfeld explains.
Does Platform Engineering Make DevOps & DevSecOps Irrelevant?
There’s an integral link between platform engineering and DevSecOps and the broader infrastructure management landscape.
Product Mindset Key to Platform Engineering Success
Here’s what what a product mindset looks like in practice and why each component contributes to the success of your platform.
How Platform Engineering Bridges the IT and DevOps Divide
A key area where companies can eliminate expensive waste and increase time to value is the relationship and workflow between IT and developers. Enter platform engineering.
How Platform Engineering Protects Profit, People and our Planet
Platform engineering offers lots of tangible benefits for businesses, but sustainable platform engineering can be even better.
How Can DevOps Evolve? Platform Engineering
Platform engineering bridges the existing gaps between software, hardware and infrastructure that come with adopting DevOps practices.
Survey Sees Value But Limited Understanding of Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is emerging as method for managing DevOps at scale, but a survey suggested that many organizations are still not clear on the concept.
How IT Services Can Embrace Platform Engineering
We are all familiar with DevOps as a newer approach to software development. The concept is designed to enable developers and IT operations teams to work together. Platform engineering, on the other hand, is a more mature, older approach that has become new again. Platform engineering, at its core, is the concept of productizing your […]
Cycloid Adds Templates to Simplify GitOps Workflows
Cycloid’s Bootstrap Stacks capability provides DevOps teams with the ability to build Git templates to define cloud computing environments.
Quali Adds Governance and Cloud Cost Control Tools to Automation Platform
Quali today revealed it added governance and cloud cost management tools to its Torque platform for automating IT infrastructure management. David Williams, senior vice president for market strategy at Quali, said the added governance tools will make it possible to enforce security, compliance and consumption policies as IT environments are launched using the automation blueprints […]
Survey Finds Cloud Management Strategies Shifting
Even though organizations continue to consume cloud resources inefficiently, they continue to increase the amount of money allocated. These were among the findings of a global survey of 1,000 technology practitioners and decision-makers conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of HashiCorp. The survey found a full 94% of respondents reported that their organization struggled with […]
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 source Backstage project. The portal pulls together a set of curated tools and resources so that developers encounter less friction and avoid the […]
Infrastructure-as-Code Pitfalls in Platform Engineering
In the context of cloud operations, the last decade was ruled by DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). But what is true DevOps? Is it developers running their own operations? Is it operators learning development skills to automate infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform? Though DevOps is widely understood to incorporate both of these, software […]
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 a study conducted by Puppet Labs, 51% of organizations have adopted platform engineering or plan to do so in the next year. But […]
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, a tool from Spotify that tracks Backstage usage trends. In addition, Spotify is also enhancing a Soundcheck plugin for Backstage that is used […]
Loosely Couple Your Schema and Keep Data Separate
In software development, one of the primary goals is to write clean, maintainable and extensible code. To achieve this, developers often strive to design systems that are loosely coupled and separate concerns into smaller, more manageable components. Loose coupling refers to the practice of designing components that are not tightly dependent on one another, allowing […]
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 bad the notion of a platform team is to how essential platforms are to make an organization’s DevOps journey to cloud native […]
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 exception. Indeed, sustainability is already gaining importance in software development. For example, in the latest version of Thoughtworks’ Technology Radar, “carbon efficiency as […]