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Platform engineering: The paved road

Platform engineering: The paved road

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Platform engineering: The paved road

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- So how the heck do you create your infrastructure as code, make your builds continuous, have great incident response and make it all secure and compliant while demanding developers and complaining end users are all up in your business? You can stay on top of it for a little while, but how do you scale it out? Because if you align along value streams, as you create multiple streams and have many dev and ops teams creating solutions, you get a greater diversity of solutions which can lead to chaos. Well, this is where the ah in comms comes to the rescue, automation. The first organizations that hit extreme scale in DevOps, like Netflix, Meta, Google and Spotify hit this and invested in creating self-service automation for people to get what they need out of the system. This approach is referred to as creating a golden path or a paved road. While a lot of the early discovery in DevOps had the flavor of blazing a trail through the wilderness. Once you figure out the things you need, you…

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