Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders
Author: Camille Fournier (Author), Ian Nowland (Author)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: O’Reilly Media
Edition 版次: 1st
Publication Date 出版日期: 2024-11-12
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 322 pages
ISBN-10: 1098153642
ISBN-13: 9781098153649
Book Description
Until recently, infrastructure was the backbone of organizations operating software they developed in-house. But now that cloud vendors run the computers, companies can finally bring the benefits of agile custom-centricity to their own developers. Adding product management to infrastructure organizations is now all the rage.
But how’s that possible when infrastructure is still the operational layer of the company?
This practical book guides engineers, managers, product managers, and leaders through the shifts that modern platform-led organizations require. You’ll learn what platform engineering is—and isn’t—and what benefits and value it brings to developers and teams. You’ll understand what it means to approach a platform as a product and learn some of the most common technical and managerial barriers to success.
With this book, you’ll:
- Cultivate a platform-as-product, developer-centric mindset
- Learn what platform engineering teams are and are not
- Start the process of adopting platform engineering within your organization
- Discover what it takes to become a product manager for a platform team
- Understand the challenges that emerge when you scale platforms
- Automate processes and self-service infrastructure to speed development and improve developer experience
- Build out, hire, manage, and advocate for a platform team
About the Author
Ian Nowland has been in the software industry for 25 years, most recently 4 years at Datadog where he was the SVP of Core Engineering. Prior, he was at AWS in their early days of 2008-2016, where he was the lead engineer on the launch of Amazon EMR, and the leader of the first 5 years of the EC2 Nitro project. He is currently a cofounder at a stealth mode startup.
