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8 key learnings from Platform Con 2024 

Summary Platform Con 2024 underscored that culture is paramount—platform engineering thrives when it reduces developer cognitive load, treats the platform as a product, and fits seamlessly into users’ workflows. Key insights included: empowering developers with slick tooling to drive innovation, understanding user needs boosts satisfaction and organizational performance, embracing incremental product-like tweaks guided by feedback,…

The 10 benefits of platform engineering

Summary Platform engineering offers transformative value by driving efficiency, consistency, scalability, developer satisfaction, reliability, security, cost control, compliance, resource optimization, and cross-team collaboration—all under a framework of robust governance. As Gartner predicts, organizations are increasingly recognizing platform engineering as the backbone of streamlined software delivery and developer-operator alignment. Action points: begin by mapping your workflow…

Unlocking developer productivity: Demystifying the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) 

Summary An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) acts like an automotive factory for your development workflow—streamlining how teams build, deploy, and manage applications by offering pre-tested, certified architectures and workflows that embed security and governance without adding friction. It helps boost productivity, enhance cross-team collaboration, accelerate time-to-market, reduce duplicate efforts, enforce consistent governance, and promote continuous…

My 10 must-see sessions at the Snowflake Summit 

It’s 20 degrees Celsius (or 68 degrees Fahrenheit) sunshine, but people wearing winter beanies? It must be time for the Snowflake Summit again!  One of the things I love most about the Snowflake Summit is seeing the entire data ecosystem represented under one roof.   It’s especially thrilling to see breakthrough technology start-ups leading the charge…

The Race of the builders

The ‘Race of the Builders’ event crossed the starting line at full throttle 20 March, 2024 at the Circle Convention Centre in Zurich, Switzerland, and online. ​

March 26, 2024

Do you really need to build your own Internal Developer Platform/Portal?  

What is an IDP and do I really need to build my own? This blog explores what an Internal Developer Platform/Portal (IDP) is and the best practices to adopt one.