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Platform Challenge 11: Scaling the Platform Beyond a Single Kubernetes Cluster
So you've successfully migrated an application or team to a single Kubernetes cluster. Perhaps you're using a managed offering such as...
Jake Klein
Jan 4, 20233 min read
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Platform Challenge 10: Not All Services are on Kubernetes
One of the challenges of running a Platform is the underlying technology which is, oftentimes, itself a platform. The choice of the...
Derik Evangelista
Jan 3, 20232 min read
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Platform Challenge 9: Application Teams Need to Learn Platform Tools
In software there always seems to be more to do than time to do it. This is particularly true when it comes to often understaffed...
Abby Bangser
Jan 2, 20233 min read
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Platform Challenge 7: Maintaining Consistency Across Software Teams
Systems are all around us. They exist at incomprehensibly enormous scales, such as the complex global economy that we all operate within,...
Christopher Hedley
Dec 31, 20223 min read
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Platform Challenge 6: Codifying Your Business
Software teams—and the internal platform they use—do not exist in a vacuum. Quite the opposite. They are often inserted into a bigger...
Derik Evangelista
Dec 30, 20222 min read
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Platform Challenge 5: Not All Service Experts Are on the Platform Team
Work across your organisation to build your platform as a product and ensure that your platform offerings leverage collective expertise.
Winna Bridgewater
Dec 29, 20222 min read
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Platform Challenge 4: Cognitive Load Has Shifted to Your Team
In the last couple of decades software delivery has gone through significant changes. Historically, software was subdivided into focused...
Abby Bangser
Dec 28, 20223 min read
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Platform Challenge 3: You Can’t Buy What Only You Need
Build vs buy is a perennial conversation in the software industry. Buying a ready-made product that promises to deliver multiples of...
Christopher Hedley
Dec 27, 20222 min read
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Platform Challenge 2: Time Pressure Makes a Full Platform Rewrite Unlikely
The tech ecosystem is a rapidly changing space. Companies are often grappling with staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and...
Jake Klein
Dec 26, 20223 min read
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Platform Challenge 1: A Small Team Supporting a Big Platform
Over the last 6 years I have had the pleasure of working on a few amazing platform teams. In each case we had an outsized impact on the...
Abby Bangser
Dec 25, 20222 min read
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The 12 Platform Challenges of Christmas
Platform Engineering is generating quite the buzz these days. In particular, there seems to be a lot of chat about what it is not. Or how...

Paula Kennedy
Dec 8, 20221 min read
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Paving Golden Paths on Multi-Cluster Kubernetes: Part 2 (The Practice)
The first article in this series covered the theory behind the emergence of internal platforms, platform teams, and paving golden paths....

Colin Humphreys
Aug 19, 20225 min read
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Paving Golden Paths On Multi-Cluster Kubernetes: Part 1 (The Theory)
When I wasted three years of my life building a platform for a project that failed within a month of launching, I vowed to never make the...

Colin Humphreys
Aug 19, 20223 min read
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Crossing the Platform Gap
Time Wasted on Commodity Infrastructure The modern digital organisation is populated with customer-focused teams delivering business...

Colin Humphreys
Sep 22, 20212 min read
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