Part 3 – Platforms as a Product Best Practices

In the last part, we will provide you with the tools to optimize your platform for cost efficiency, enabling your users to do the same. We will achieve this by outlining the simple steps required to establish transparency within your cost landscape and by providing you with best practices to reduce your infrastructure expenses. From infrastructure costs, we will move on to technical debts, which can negatively impact the maintenance costs of the selected technology stack if they are not dealt with correctly. You will learn about tools and frameworks to evaluate technical debts and the importance of documenting what decisions you make. Finally, we will take a look into the future. You will learn about the imperative of change and why you have to become an active part of driving change. You might discover a different perspective on your golden path and some ideas about future relevant technologies.

This part has the following chapters...