Platform Engineering
What’s the Difference Between DevOps and Platform Engineering?
The DevOps space is buzzing with a new trend—platform engineering. Platform engineering has been gaining steam over the last few years but has really peaked in interest lately. In fact, according to ...
Spotify Adds More Plugins for Backstage Developer Portal
Mike Vizard | | Backstage, developer experience, developer productivity, DevOps workflows, platform engineering, spotifySpotify this week added additional plugins for its open source Backstage platform that is used to build developer portals. The new plugins make it simpler to address role-based access and access Insights, ...
How Good Developers Become Good Engineering Managers
Being a good engineering manager means that, to some degree, you have a natural affinity for the work involved. And if you’re a good developer, you likely already have some of those ...
Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS, careers, DevOps careers, layoffs, linux, Linux 6.3, tech layoffs, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble ...
Platform Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail
Developer platforms and the platform teams that create them have been the center of attention for quite some time now. There have been many (wildly different) opinions about the subject, ranging from ...
How Platform Engineering Makes Software Sustainable
Michel Murabito | | developer experience, devops, internal developer platform, platform engineering, self-service, sustainabilityThe world is constantly becoming more and more aware of the importance of sustainability in every aspect of our daily lives from buying groceries to traveling, and the IT world is no ...
Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center
Richi Jennings | | Android, ARM, data center, data privacy, devsecops, GDPR, Google Play Data safety section, Green data center, IaaS, privacy, RISC-V, The Long View, x86 platformIn this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder ...
Orgs Shift Toward Centralizing Automation Initiatives
A survey published today found that 75% of respondents recognized that automation silos hamper their ability to unify cloud operations across functions. Conducted by CloudBolt Software, the survey polled 350 senior IT ...
env0 Extends Workflow Platform for Provisioning Infrastructure
env0 today announced it has added support for additional infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools and the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to its workflow automation and management platform. Fresh from raising an additional $35 million ...
How to Supercharge Your Engineering Teams
With the economy still bleak, data and engineering teams that were already struggling to keep pace with business needs are now facing a potential hiring freeze or worse in 2023. That’s why ...
Linux Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
Richi Jennings | | Atlassian, data center, disaster recovery, edge computing, hyperthreading, layoffs, linux, Lonestar Data Holdings, moon, performance, The Long View, ThreadIn this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs ...
Strategies To Consider When Adopting Platform Engineering
Platform engineering helps centralize the responsibilities associated with maintaining internal infrastructure. And it continues to be an emerging discipline—according to the 2023 State of DevOps Report, 51% of organizations have already adopted ...
