Platform Engineering & Platform as a Product with Luca Galante

<p>What is Platform Engineering, why does it exist and why should you care? Those are the main questions we discuss in this episode and who better to do that with than Luca Galante 🙌<br> <br> He shares his journey with platform engineering, the different flavours he's seen in organisations and how the DevOps is dead controversy developed.<br> <br> Enjoy! 🎙</p> <p>Connect with Luca Galante: &nbsp;<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/luca_cloud">https://twitter.com/luca_cloud<br> </a><a href="https://linkedin.com/in/luca-galante">https://linkedin.com/in/luca-galante</a></p> <p>More on Platform Engineering: &nbsp;<br> <a href="https://platformengineering.org">https://platformengineering.org</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Full episode on YouTube ▶️<br> <a href="https://youtu.be/x8kDNO1Pjc0">https://youtu.be/x8kDNO1Pjc0</a></p> <p>New episodes every Wednesday with our host&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-akil">🎙Patrick Akil</a>! &nbsp;<br> Big shoutout to&nbsp;<a href="https://xebia.com/">Xebia</a> for making this episode possible!</p> <p><br></p> <p>OUTLINE:<br> 00:00:00 - Intro<br> 00:00:26 - How Luca got into Platform Engineering<br> 00:04:01 - Shared identity<br> 00:07:00 - What is platform engineering?<br> 00:08:35 - Platform as a product<br> 00:11:34 - Platform team structures<br> 00:14:42 - The right level of abstraction<br> 00:17:02 - Frustration in complex landscapes<br> 00:18:46 - Ideal starting point for platform teams<br> 00:21:23 - Platform teams competing<br> 00:24:32 - Falling in love with your platform<br> 00:26:09 - Managed solutions<br> 00:28:31 - Blueprints and reference architectures<br> 00:31:22 - Being sustainable<br> 00:33:19 - Zero to one and one+ people<br> 00:35:45 - No platform team yet?<br> 00:38:14 - Tragedy of the commons<br> 00:40:05 - Why platform initiatives fail<br> 00:42:13 - Technical product owners<br> 00:45:05 - Feedback &amp; solving real problems<br> 00:47:02 - The DevOps is dead controversy<br> 00:50:32 - DevOps is dead booth on KubeCon<br> 00:53:26 - Having a healthy co