Insights, tools, and best practices for platform engineering. Accelerate and streamline your DevOps processes

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This month's issue of Up Next is a comprehensive guide to platform engineering. We have prepared a set of materials that will introduce you to this topic step by step and reveal the powerful opportunities this field offers.

In just a few days, you will have the chance to listen live to Maciej Manturewicz , Director of Engineering, and ?ukasz Romanowski , Engineering Manager, in an upcoming webinar covering the benefits of internal developer platforms (IDPs), including reducing the cognitive load on developers, lowering costs, and fostering a focused, productive team environment.

To better prepare for this event, we have also curated several articles that will introduce you to the world of platform engineering.

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Internal Developer Platform Template to accelerate cloud-native projects

Are you looking for a solution that helps your team achieve higher productivity and increase the maturity of your software development processes? Join our webinar to discover how a single internal developer platform can streamline development, enhance productivity, and simplify operations.

?? 21 MAY, 2024 | 8:30 AM PDT

What you will learn from this event:

• Concept of platform engineering and its interpretation by stakeholders.
• The rationale behind building a customizable IDP.
• Insight into the IDP design process and the architectural framework.
• The selection of open-source tools and technologies for an IDP.
• Challenges in IDP implementation and how to overcome them.
• Live demo of a custom IDP environment, designed for cloud-native development.
• Future directions of platform engineering.

Register here ?? https://bit.ly/3Qc7nEq and join us via Zoom!

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Platform engineering - everything you need to know

What is platform engineering, what are its principles, and what types of organizations need it? It has emerged as a solution that is the next step in cloud-native software delivery. Platform engineers focus on building workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering teams and integrating the necessary standardized tools for entire organizations. It's a comparatively new discipline, and to get to know it better, you can access Maciej Manturewicz 's deep expertise in this topic.

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Platform engineering: simplifying the path from code to production

Bartosz Pankowski , DevOps Engineer at CodiLime, will guide you through the complex ecosystem of modern software development, where engineering teams often struggle with the number of tools and processes. Learn how to simplify the software development process using Backstage, GitLab, ArgoCD, and Prometheus.

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Platform engineering vs. DevOps: what is the difference?

DevOps and platform engineering aim to enable software engineers to do their work better, creating high-quality apps and taking them to production faster. So, is there any real difference between these two? Check out another piece of content from Maciej Manturewicz , where he discusses DevOps principles, explains its purpose, and breaks down the differences from platform engineering.

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GitOps vs. DevOps - what is the difference?

To complement your knowledge, we also encourage you to read a detailed article by one of our Engineer Managers, Konrad D?browski . What exactly are the most popular methodologies in the software development world, what are the differences between them, and what are DevOps and GitOps definitely not? Click on the banner and find out!