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Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders

by Camille Fournier (Author), Ian Nowland (Author) Format: Paperback
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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 required to become a modern platform-led organization. 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 your 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

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Who This Book Is For

This book is focused on the technical, product, and people leaders in organizations that engineer and operate software platforms: senior engineers; architects; product, program, and engineering managers. Most of these readers understand intuitively that platforms are not just about building automation for the cloud and open source systems, but they lack both a clearer definition of what they should be doing and the practices to do it well.

We also hope to reach the broader technology leadership community: the CTOs, SVPs, and “product engineering” leadership team. These leaders have a tendency to ask questions like “Why is the platform organization so big when we also have AWS?” “Why does our platform have all this headcount but still move so slowly?” and “Why didn’t our recent adoption of [public cloud/SRE/developer experience] solve this?” The first two chapters of the book should start to answer these basic questions, and many of the techniques we spell out in the later chapters will be useful to product organizations as well (and may even provoke some introspection by these leaders!).

Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders

Finally, this book is really for anyone interested in learning how to make platform engineering work beyond the technical implementation details. Whether you are at a startup wondering when to start, a big company thinking about moving from infrastructure engineering to platform engineering, or anywhere in between, this book is for you.

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About the Author

Camille Fournier is a technology executive with leadership experience ranging from early stage startups to Fortune 50 corporations. She was a founding member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, and currently serves on the board of the ACM Queue. She has published two other books, The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change, and 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know.

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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 12, 2024
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1098153642
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1098153649
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.24 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.68 x 9.19 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #71,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars (80)

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