What is Platform Engineering with Luca Galante

Kubernetes Bytes

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Platform engineering expert Luca Galante, head of product at Humanitec to discuss all things Platform engineering, what is it, and how it is different from DevOps. They also discuss when it makes sense to have a platform engineering team and how you can get started on your journey by building internal development platforms.

Show Notes:

- What is platform engineering?
- What is an internal developer platform?
- What is Dynamic Configuration Management?
- Platform Engineering community
- PlatformCon 2023
- Luca’s LinkedIn and Twitter

Cloud Native News:

• InfluxData Series E round - https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/13/influxdata-lands-51m-to-grow-its-time-series-database-offerings
• Cloud Native Security Con - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2NQ-Zi_k5qVmZyxSmLBzM6V
• Adrian's Platform engineering blog - https://adrianco.medium.com/platform-engineering-teams-done-right-b3b3d4a8ad23
• Amazon EKS Anywhere on SNOW - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/new-amazon-eks-anywhere-on-snow
• Kelsey Hightower affirms databases on k8s - https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1624081136073994240
• NetApp discontinues astra data store https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/01/25/netapp-astra-data-store/
• Edge computing trends 2023 - https://technologymagazine.com/articles/the-cutting-edge-edge-computing-trends-to-watch-in-2023