Six Signs You Need Platform Engineering
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The document discusses the signs indicating a need for platform engineering, highlighting its role in enhancing developer productivity and operational efficiency. It outlines critical factors such as growing development teams, complex application infrastructure, and the demand for developer self-service, which can signal the necessity for internal developer platforms (IDP). Additionally, it introduces the concept of weaving GitOps into the platform engineering strategy to bolster automation and governance.
Six Signs You Need Platform Engineering
- 1. The 6 Signs That You Need Platform Engineering
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- 3. 3 Joe Dahlquist VP of Product Marketing, Weaveworks Joe Dahlquist leads product marketing at Weaveworks. An accomplished product leader with over 20 years of experience in PM and PMM roles, Joe has worked on software, hardware, and services products that have delighted millions of users and partners in cybersecurity, consumer electronics, financial services, access control, and more. Speaker introductions Mohamed Ahmed VP of Developer Platforms, Weaveworks Mo is a seasoned engineering leader. He is currently the VP of developer platform at weaveworks. Mo ran Magalix, the policy-as-code company, which Weaveworks acquired early 2022. Mo shipped various IaaS and PaaS developer products at tech giants Microsoft and Amazon, focusing on democratizing robust cloud solutions.
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- 6. ● A 🔥hot🔥 topic with lots of confusion and complexity ● Not interchangeable, terms mean different things ● Companies play buzzword bingo ● New tools, but not a new concept IDP vs. IDP vs. Platform Engineering
- 7. ● The evolved state of DevOps ● It’s an approach, a methodology ● Standardizes tech used by developers and DevOps engineers ● Abstract away complexity and manual steps ● Reduce Dev dependency on Ops ● Increase developer velocity and app reliability What is Platform Engineering Waterfall > Agile > DevOps > Platform Engineering Continuous Ops, GitOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, GreenOps
- 8. ● Platform Engineering is a methodology ● IDP(latform) is a thing people use to do Platform Engineering ● Built by Platform Teams (evolved Ops teams) ● Configured to define and enforce golden paths and governance ● External developer platforms also exist Internal Developer Platform
- 9. ● A component of an Internal Developer Platform ● Built by Platform Teams to improve Developer Experience (DX) ● A developers (graphical) interface to the Platform ● Simplify the mess of complex tools ● Push-button, get infrastructure ● Visibility for pipelines, app state Internal Developer Portal
- 10. 10 ✓ Everyone on a cloud-native journey ✓ Tools and tech make it accessible ✓ Extreme focus on developer productivity and ops efficiency ✓ High demand for apps and features ✓ Security and compliance ✓ Quality of life Why So Trendy?
- 11. 11 Pre-configured envs, automated routine tasks (configs, monitoring, etc.) 1 INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY 2 Increase devs autonomy w/ self-provisioning of resources SELF-SERVICE OPERATIONS 3 Streamline CI/CD, zero-touch deployments, auto health checks FASTER TESTING & DEPLOYMENTS 4 Consistently enforce security best practices ENHANCED & CONSISTENT SECURITY WHAT'S IN IT FOR APPLICATION DEVELOPERS
- 12. 12 Automated routine tasks to focus on engineering rather than ops 1 REDUCED TOIL 2 No manual provisioning; easy to enforce automated efficiency. EFFICIENT RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 3 Auto scan & remediation of non-compliant changes. IMPROVED COMPLIANCE AND GOVERNANCE 4 Support more teams w/o additional operational work SCALABILITY WHAT'S IN IT FOR PLATFORM ENGINEERS
- 13. 13 DEVOPS & COLLABORATIVE CULTURE BASIC AUTOMATION DATA DRIVEN DECISION MAKING DEVOPS & COLLABORATIVE CULTURE The more connected, the more data sharing and exchange is critical to team's success BASIC AUTOMATION IDP is about automatic information sharing as they events and updates take place. DATA DRIVEN DECISION MAKING IDPs without a north star and metrics to improve will stall very quickly and become limited in impact WHAT'S THE COMMON THREAD? We interviewed and talked to dozens of teams and companies implemented developer platforms. We found some commonalities among the successful IDP implementations
- 14. 6 SIGNS THAT YOU NEED AN IDP IF YOU HAVE 2 OF THEM... You should be worried about not having an IDP :)
- 15. 15 #6 GROWING DEVELOPMENT TEAMS On-boarding time, repeated questions, time to answer Scaling challenges time needed to coordinate routine tasks Inefficient collaboration Number of ops requests/tickets, time to resolve them Overburdened Ops Team Deployment failure rates Increased downtime
- 16. 16 COMPLEX APPS & INFRA Multi & Hybrid cloud Time replicating and maintaining across different environments Complex Deployment Pipeline Time to deploy new updates Microservices architecture Rate of growth Number of microservices Increased IaC Complexity Divergence from one environment to another COMPLEX APPS & INFRA #5
- 17. 17 PLATFORM ENGINEERING CULTURE ADOPTION DevOps Adoption Automation is prevailing IaC, automated test, monitoring, etc. Continuous Learning & Improvement How frequently teams review and improve processes (CoE exists?) PLATFORM ENGINEERING CULTURE ADOPTION #4 PLATFORM ENGINEERING CULTURE Are there frequent cross teams decisions Frequent Cross-Team Collaboration
- 18. 18 1 Features release frequency (& competition) MARKET PRESSURE 2 How frequent teams iterate on the product features FREQUENT PRODUCT ITERATION 3 Pressure from sales and customer success NEED FOR FASTER RESPONSES ACCELERATING BUSINESS VELOCITY #3
- 19. 19 COMPLIANCE AND SECURITY REQUIREMENTS #2 The number & complexity of new regulatory requirements REGULATORY CHANGES The number and severity of security incident over time SECURITY INCIDENTS Volume and sensitivity of data your company handles DATA PRIVACY
- 20. 20 #1 DEMAND FOR DEVELOPER SELF-SERVICE LONG LEAD TIME TO PROVISION RESOURCES The time it takes a Developer to provision an environment FREQUENT REQUEST FOR RESOURCES How frequently and how fast Developers ask for their own environments. DEVELOPER TURNOVER Ask why Developers are leaving?!
- 21. 21 LET'S BRING THEM ALL TOGETHER! COMPLIANCE & SECURITY ACCELERATING BUSINESS VELOCITY PLATFORM ENGINEERING CULTURE COMPLEX APPS & INFRA GROWING DEVELOPMENT TEAMS DEVELOPER SELF-SERVICE
- 22. 22 PLATFORM ENGINEERING STRATEGY 02 MAKE IT A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY 04 MEASURE THE SUCCESS OF YOUR IDP 03 ADDRESS BOTH THE TOPLINE AND BOTTOMLINE SUCCESSFUL IDP 01 ONE STEP AT A TIME
- 23. 23 Weave GitOps is the trusted automation core Reduce human intervention to reduce errors and risk Add trust, security and compliance to any platform, any maturity level Weave GitOps at the Center
- 24. 24 Weave GitOps
- 25. 25 Platform Engineering - The Art of Modern Ops - Blog Post - Whitepaper Recent Podcast with Alexis Richardson Link Request a personal demo www.weave.works/contact Thank You
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