DevPath - Issue #107
DevPath delivers a curated newsletter for developers and leaders in tech. A side project by https://fabiocicerchia.it. Ideal for busy people as it gives a weekly extract of the latest news and trends.
Strip of the Week
DevOps
Software is eating the world. Software now defines the speed of innovation and continues to differentiate the winners from the losers. Digital transformation continues to be key to survival for established companies. The winners don’t just need to be capable of building software; they need to be exceptional at it. Software development consistently requires more scale and more speed. Today, over 70% of DevOps teams release code as frequently as once a day, up 11% from 2021.
Platform Engineering, Part 1: WHY — The Evolution of Developer Cognitive Load
2023 is the year we’ll see the rise of Platform Engineering!
It appeared in the latest Gartner’s 2022 Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech, and it had its first dedicated conference this summer: PlatformCon 2022, with 7K+ online attendees.
Platform Engineering, Part 2: WHAT Are The Goals of a Platform Engineering Team?
“DevOps is dead, long live Platform Engineering!”
“Platform Engineering is rapidly becoming the new DevOps or SRE”
These tweets created a lot of debate when they were published a few months ago. And the debate is still going on: Everyone is trying to articulate the difference between Platform Engineering, DevOps, and SRE.
Platform Engineering, Part 3: WHEN & HOW to Build an Internal Developer Platform
Creating a platform team and an internal developer platform is a natural evolution for a modern engineering organization. The hype is real! But as Martin Fowler says: “mind the platform execution gap”!
Management
eng mgmt ep1: Should I become an Engineering Manager?
At some point in your career as a software engineer, you will be presented with the opportunity to become a manager. You’ll be the senior engineer for a particular part of the technology, and it will be growing to a point that a proper team needs to be formed. Or your manager will move on, creating a vacancy that you could fill. Or you will spearhead a new area of work, and the company will want to devote more resources that will need leadership.
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