What is Platform Engineering and how it fits into DevOps and Cloud world

SAP does this using BTP (Business Technology Platform)

Same thing happened 8 years ago with Data Engineering

Excellent channel

Nana, you are a blessing.

This is by far the best explanation I have seen on Platform Engineering, fantastic video. Is it possible to share the Slide Deck with us? I am pushing towards productizing our infrastructure and this is the best resource to help sell the concept and goal. Thank you for your content!

Thanks for this content.

insanely good video

Superb explanation. I didn’t know about IDP but was hearing a lot about Nexus and ended up here. From 0 knowledge I got to some level 🙌

Being able to explain complex things in simple language is a real talent

Waste of time, not at all helpful, I play video with the hope to learn concepts and technical knowledge .. Sorry sister but it seems just junk online content

16:30 So, platform is like a cheap wrapper. App devs learn to use wrappers instead of learning transferrable skills like aws, kubernetes, etc.

Thanks for the video! I have recieved a job offer for this sort of position, so it was awsome to actually understand what I would be doing there in the future.

Wait, platform engineering has been around way before DevOps. Im confused.

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I just watched this video and wanted to thank you for the clear and easy-to-understand explanation. The content was incredibly informative and enhanced my knowledge on the topic. Great job, and I look forward to more videos like this!

This is a terrible approach, more complexity, more abstraction, more terminology, more opportunity for failure, we need to be simplifying in every single aspect from teams to tech for any chance of success.

why do you conflate PaaS and IDP? please elaborate. Thanks! (great content)

What an absolutely great video! The more you explained, the more questions I had... and you answered those questions as if reading my mind.

@techworldwithnana what app did you use to create the presentation / slide deck please

Well, now I understand who I work for

looks like new brand terraform-like approach for devops instruments. But culd anybody bring example of this platform? It looks like a set of rules for big organizations with many teams

Someone sees and searches a lot of videos about the theme... but Nana ALWAYS explains like no one. Thank you!

Key success factor for Platform Engineering to be successful is a vision at company level on application architecture. Else App teams will pull the Platform Engineering teams in many directions with too many requirements

So the thing is: you can't eat the cake and have it too. It means that the Platform will take up the huge burden of standardizing various DevOps tech stacks, therefor they will need a lot of different SMEs - in their Platform team - who can properly implement the guardrail, admin and security compliance.
But I also see the point of separating Platform team from the traditional DevOps team. This makes a lot fo sense and very practical.
If the implementation of Platform team is properly done, then we have a paradise of DevSecOps.... well it is still a big IF as Nana mentioned a few times.

This is not going to work.

You call the IDP an internal app, which is terrible as you gain skill on a proprietary platform.

If you ever change jobs, you have to learn another custom proprietary IDP platform.

If an IDP is ever going to work, it must be an open source app that is the defacto standard for platform engineering for wide adoption across companies.

I believe the devops role gives the most flexible and fastest development -> deployment process.

We don't have to be experts in every aspect and get certificates like you imply.

We should start with what works and adopt more things as we learn over time.

A company-wide platform engineering team could take forever to build a great platform.

I don't see the platform engineer as the apex of technical knowledge.

In fact, they will be highly opinionated, as well as different teams are, in the tools and frameworks to use.

To me, the ability to innovate quickly and to make development -> deployment frictionless are the key criteria for successful development teams.

How do you fill in gaps that are missing on the platform? Like if the platform team has not defined some terraform modules that an application team needs. Does Application team wait for the module to be developed? Does the application team write the terraform module?

Wow. This is such an awesome explanation! Thank you so much. Well done! 🙏🏻🙏🏻💓💓

Which tool have you used to create this video?

27:20 I think we should say: application teams, because such a team maybe should not be just developers, they should have an ops person, so they can do proper devops together.

Brilliant presentation. 💡

Really Loved this video. In my previous organisation, they were following kind of similar model as Nana suggested : -
Dev team :- This team focusing on the application development, understanding business requirement, adding new features to app and releasing new version of the app.
DevOps Team:- This is very small team consist of 1 person :p, embedded with specific app team, Managing and maintaining build pipeline for the app, handling configuration management of app and helping in making sure the smooth delivery of these artifacts in the production.
Ops Team :- Simply Responsible for deploying the app in the production by triggering the jenkin jobs which are provided by devops team. They just need to follow the document provided by Dev team to get understanding of the app dependencies and follow the document steps by step in order to complete their job.
Platform Team :- As my org is kind of big and not a startup, and teams are simultaneously working on multiple apps, we have big platform team which is responsible for building and deploying core infrastructure components at the org level which can be shared by multiple apps.