Introduction

Notes

  • Talk about Developer Relations and the relationship between Platform Engineering, Developer Experience and SRE.

  • Talk about Internal Developer Platforms, Team Topologies.

  • Talk About Space and DevOps and Evolution over time.

  • Chapter Goal

  • Introduce the concepts of Platform Engineering. Explain the evolution of DevOps to Platform Engineering and SRE.

  • Introduce Team Topologies as a very useful lens through which to view Platform Engineering.

  • Introduce capabilities as the key lens of what Platform Engineering provides, and talk about how capabilities are implemented through platform services and technical support, best practices and general guidance.

  • Introduce Internal Developer Platforms as the product of Platform Engineering.

  • Talk about conceptual load reduction briefly, segue into Developer Experience.

  • Talk about platform as a product as the way of viewing the output provided by a platform group as a single unified set of capabilities, often called an Internal Developer Platform, which provide developers with the self-service capabilities that will reduce their conceptual load and allow them to focus on their core responsibilities rather than incidental activities.

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