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Dec 18 โ€ข 8 tweets โ€ข 4 min read
My best tweets and threads about "Platform Engineering" from 2022 โ™ป๏ธ

With bonus thoughts and commentary ๐Ÿ˜

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This was my original thread on Platform Engineering back in February that really kicked off (I think this is my most popular tweet, ever!) ๐Ÿš€

In March, my team and I consolidated our learnings from the original thread (and other sources) into this article, "Is Platform Engineering the New DevOps or SRE?" ๐Ÿ“š

We also chatted with a lot of amazing people in the Platform Engineering space in the @ambassadorlabs podcast, and we learned a tonne! ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ ๐Ÿ™Œ

And I presented my thoughts on the future of Kubernetes platforms and platform engineering at #KubeConEU ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ

Shout out to the @CloudNativeFdn and the awesome @KubeCon_ audience for providing me with more questions than answers ๐Ÿ˜

We all knew Platform Engineering was a serious emerging topic for 2022 when @Gartner_inc mentioned it over the summer in their Hype Cycle for Software Engineering report ๐Ÿ“ˆ

I wrapped up the year with a new @thenewstack article that looks forward to what I think are the important trends and topics associated with Platform Engineering for 2023 ๐Ÿ”ฎ

I would love to hear your thoughts, too!

I hope you found these tweets helpful. I'll be publishing a few more "best of" threads over the holiday break ๐ŸŽ„

Happy holidays, everyone! ๐Ÿฅณ

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Jul 22
I've had several great chats with folks looking to get into devrel this week, and wanted to share my current advice for the role of developer relations, developer advocacy, etc ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป

Spoiler alert: it's not just developer marketing ๐Ÿ’ธ

Read on ๐Ÿงต ๐Ÿ‘‡
My general take on devrel is that you're bridging the gap between technology and user adoption ๐Ÿ’ป ๐ŸŒ‰ ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘

- Generating awareness ๐Ÿ“ฃ
- Education ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ
- Creating tech demos ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ
- Community building ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘
- Empathizing with devs ๐Ÿงฐ
- Acquiring feedback ๐Ÿ‘‚
There's a lot of skill overlap with core engineering roles (particularly tech lead and "Staff Plus"), but also a lot of overlap with Product Owners and Product Managers ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป

e.g.
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Jul 1
What is HTTP/3 and why should you care? ๐Ÿค”

- Reduced latency and buffering
- 70%+ browser support
- Benefits for machines with old OS/kernels

My team and I have been chatting to experts and playing with the latest version of the protocol that powers the web

Read on ๐Ÿงต ๐Ÿ‘‡
HTTP/3 is supported by 70%+ of browsers (including Chrome, Firefox, and Edge), and according to W3Techs 25% of the top 10 million websites ๐ŸŒ

The official RFC/spec was standardized in June 2022:

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9114/
I recently had a fascinating @ambassdorlabs podcast chat with @alyssa_oss, Senior Staff Engineer at Google and @EnvoyProxy committer ๐Ÿ™Œ

We covered a lot of ground in 20 minutes: HTTP/3 Use Cases, Envoy Support, and Googleโ€™s Rollout

getambassador.io/kubernetes-thoโ€ฆ
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Jun 25
During my travels I listened to three very good audiobooks for folks working in the dev tooling/platform space:

- Inspired, by @cagan
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- Ask Your Developer, by @jeffiel
amzn.to/3A5BqXm
- The Power Law, by @scmallaby
amzn.to/3Omtq8y

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I've read Inspired once before, and so this was a great reminder of what it takes to design, build, and lead teams to make great tech products ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘

For folks building cloud platforms, this is a super useful reference for making sure your thinking is product-focused
Ask Your Developer is a tour de force on how to build and scale tech products effectively ๐Ÿš€

This will be especially valuable for execs involved in building platforms (doubly so if the exec doesn't have a dev/tech background)
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Jun 24
The latest @InfoQ DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report has been published ๐Ÿ“Š

Key topics:
- Data Observability
- FinOps
- eBPF and WASM
- Supply chain security
- Low/no-code platforms
- "Developer Experience as Decision Driverโ€

Read on to learn more ๐Ÿงต ๐Ÿ‘‡
@InfoQ Every year, several @InfoQ editors and members of the community get together to share their opinions on the current state of the DevOps and cloud space.

We aim to track the diffusion of technologies, methodologies, and topics in this space

Here is our current take:
@InfoQ The model we use is taken from @geoffreyamoore's diffusion of innovation & "Crossing the Chasm" โ›ฐ๏ธ

As pointed out by @swardley, we shouldn't confuse diffusion and evolution (the linked thread provides more context and highlights the value of mapping)

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Jun 19
5 technologies that #PlatformEngineers should pay attention to for the next six months ๐Ÿงฐ ๐Ÿ“†

- devcontainers
- Buildpacks (and SBOMs)
- "Remocal" dev tools e.g. Skaffold, Telepresence
- HTTP/3
- Service catalogs e.g. Backstage

Read on to learn more! ๐Ÿงต ๐Ÿ‘‡
devcontainers enable the packaging and encapsulation of developer environments and can be run locally and remotely ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ

This @InfoQ article from @avdi (reviewed by @BeardedCoder) is super useful for establishing the benefits of devcontainers

infoq.com/articles/devcoโ€ฆ
@InfoQ @avdi @BeardedCoder The @buildpacks_io project enables fast, secure, and reproducible software builds! #nuffsaid

They can also be used to easily generate SBOMs to help with software supply chain and security governance ๐Ÿ”

buildpacks.io/docs/buildpackโ€ฆ
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Jun 12
Key learnings from the inaugural #PlatformCon

- Everyone is building a platform, whether they realize it or not
- Platform as product FTW ๐Ÿš€
- Getting exec/C-level buy-in is challenging
- Platform Product Manager will be a hot role ๐Ÿ“ˆ
- Balance devex, CLI, UIs, & IaC โš–๏ธ

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1/ Everyone is building a platform, whether they realize it or not ๐Ÿค”

There was a real mix of platform tech at the event:
- Kubernetes
- Serverless
- On-prem

One key theme: every "platform" helped devs to code, ship, and run, reducing toil and increasing speed and safety ๐Ÿš€ โ›‘๏ธ
A lot of (successful) platform builds and adoption appeared to be driven bottom-up by developers ๐Ÿงฐ

And yes, even that janky "setup-local-dev. sh" script and clumsily assembled GitHub Actions building and deploying from your repo onto an EC2 instance count as a platform ๐Ÿ˜
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