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Platform Engineering for Architects

You're reading from   Platform Engineering for Architects Crafting modern platforms as a product

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836203599
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hilliary Lipsig Hilliary Lipsig
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Max Körbächer Max Körbächer
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Andreas Grabner Andreas Grabner
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – An Introduction to Platform Engineering and Architecture FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Platform Engineering and the Art of Crafting Platforms 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Platform Architecture to Build Platform as a Product 4. Chapter 3: Building the Foundation for Supporting Platform Capabilities 5. Part 2 – Designing and Crafting Platforms
6. Chapter 4: Architecting the Platform Core – Kubernetes as a Unified Layer 7. Chapter 5: Integration, Delivery, and Deployment – Automation is Ubiquitous 8. Chapter 6: Build for Developers and Their Self-Service 9. Part 3 – Platforms as a Product Best Practices
10. Chapter 7: Building Secure and Compliant Products 11. Chapter 8: Cost Management and Best Practices 12. Chapter 9: Choosing Technical Debt to Unbreak Platforms 13. Chapter 10: Crafting Platform Products for the Future 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to approach platform engineering with a product mindset: find the real problem we need to solve, provide a simple quick solution to validate our implementation, identify how our platform fits into existing processes and organizational requirements, pitch a solution with the value proposition, which doesn’t just focus on development teams alone, and then design for flexibility without going down the route of over-engineering!

We ended up with a high-level reference architecture that you can use to promote the purpose of the platform to your end users and any other stakeholder that needs to support this project.

In Chapter 4, we’ll dive into the architectural details of a platform, the role of Kubernetes, how to integrate it with your existing services, and how to provide the platform’s capabilities to your application and service development teams!

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