The hard parts of platform engineering

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

Marcos Nils has been into platform engineering for the best part of the last decade. He helped architect & build developer platforms using VMs & OpenStack, containers with Docker, and even Kubernetes. He did this at startups with 10 people, as well as large, publicly traded companies with 1000+ software engineers.

Today we talk with Marcos about the hard parts of platform engineering.

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Featuring:

• Marcos Nils – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

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Chapter

1. Welcome (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:01:10)

3. Play with Docker (00:05:44)

4. Play with Dagger (00:11:02)

5. Hard truths about platform engineering (00:13:01)

6. Building platforms (00:21:34)

7. The second platform (00:37:25)

8. The stateful data problem (00:44:24)

9. The final platform (00:46:49)

10. SA Quake III champion (00:47:49)

11. Building a new platform (01:03:14)

12. Serverless vs Containers vs VMs (01:08:25)

13. Looking forward to 2023 (01:12:10)

14. Wrap up (01:15:08)

15. Outro (01:16:20)