Tristan's Takeaways

Organizing business and technology teams for fast flow

Platform engineering is the future of software delivery. Discover how this emerging discipline inspired a movement of 15k+ platform pioneers in just two years.

Modern Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) enable developers to be self-sufficient, collaborate better and ship faster. Check out what key benefits they deliver

Start your DevRel journey by learning what developer relations is, how dev rel applies to you, and what you should be doing.

Learn the steps to build a Kubernetes based, open source internal developer platform and why you should invest in platform engineering to beat ops sprawl.

Platform teams should pave golden paths that optimize processes for Day 2 to Day 50, not just Day 1. Here are some examples.

Build templated and well-integrated code and capabilities for rapid project development.

This paper intends to support enterprise leaders, enterprise architects and platform team leaders to advocate for, investigate and plan internal platforms for cloud computing. We believe platforms significantly impact enterprises' actual value streams, but only indirectly, so leadership consensus and support is vital to the long-term sustainability and success of platform teams. In this paper we'll enable that support by discussing what the value of platforms is, how to measure it, and how to implement platform teams that maximize it.

A new category of tooling known as Engineering Intelligence has emerged to provide a metrics-driven approach to understanding efficiency in your software development lifecycle. Learn more about what this new category is, where it came from, and what tools can help you turn insight into action.

Explore the build vs. buy dilemma for Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) with clear insights and practical examples from companies like Treebo Hotels and GGX, shedding light on its impact on developer productivity and innovation.

Confused about IDPs? We set the record straight on Internal Developer Platforms vs portals vs PaaS, and what it means to ship one.

Take CODEOWNERS and GitHub teams to the next level. Learn about how GitHub engineering solves the age old problem of who owns what.

Developer Portals and Platforms are gaining popularity amongst engineering leaders that want to reduce cognitive load for developers. But the lines between these categories are starting to blur, creating more confusion in engineering teams about where to start. Here's our take on how the two differ, which should come first, and why none of this will likely matter in another year...

Since 2019, we've significantly revamped our engineering teams. Learn how we used Team Topologies to build stronger teams, and how these changes have been beneficial.

Developer productivity is so August 2023. Enter Developer Counter-Productivity. Productive developers spend more of their time and energy on high-leverage activities. Counter-productive developers spend more time and energy on low or negative-leverage activities. This skew is often only marginally within their control (and sometimes completely out of their control). It explains why the same developers in a different environment can be so much more (or less) productive.

Guest post originally published on Mia-Platform's blog by the Mia-Platform team The world of software development is constantly and rapidly changing. New technologies emerge every day to solve…

Guest post by Andrew Stiefel, Product Marketing Manager for F5 NGINX With more and more companies adopting API‑first design practices to build modern applications, measuring your APIs'

I am super excited to announce the launch of our Brand New, Global Community for folk passionate about Developer Experience and Developer Productivity !! ✨…

The challenges teams face when adopting OKRs and how to mitigate them.

Product builders should aim for lovable, not just viable. Jiaona Zhang (product leader at Dropbox, Airbnb, WeWork and lecturer at Stanford) shares her tactics for building MLPs that win users' hearts.

Gartner makes some very powerful points on where internal developer portals are going and how it all connects to platform engineering

We adapted a version of Syntasso’s Platform Maturity Model and lessons learned from the community to dig into organizations’ alignment with platform engineering best practices.

A dedicated platform engineering team creates value and improves the everyday experience. Use these actions to build a business case and scale your platform engineering team. #GartnerIT #BusinessGrowth #PlatformEngineering

The Syntasso team has a long history of open source and community engagement as well as being leaders within the platform engineering space. Through this work over time it’s become clear that people are struggling to identify and deliver on the key differentiators that drive success in platform engineering. In trying to clarify this messaging and journey, the team has developed a platform maturity model outlining principles and behaviours that can lead to more effective outcomes. We have been bl

Documentation for k0smotron.

The Terraform Framework

Extensible auto-tagger for your IaC files. The ultimate way to link entities in the cloud back to the codified resource which created it.

Layerform helps engineers create reusable environment stacks using plain .tf files. Ideal for multiple "staging" environments. - ergomake/layerform: Layerform helps engineers crea...