The promise is an abstraction above operators that allows the platform team to offer things as a service. The key ones that we i talked about and my in my conference talk were collaboration and then ex as a service, which collins described briefly. When we think about platforms product, your platform needs to be a product, an internal product that you think about,. You think about its customers, you think about its product life cycle. If step one of that is who are your customers? You need to go and talk to them only to understand their use and needs. That's the collaboration part. And then the next step is delivering this thing as a service - it could be jenkins as a
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In 2014 Gerhard joined CloudCredo, a startup co-founded by Colin Humphreys, Paula Kennedy & Chris Hedley. They stuck together through two acquisitions: Pivotal & VMware. This year, Colin, Paula & Chris co-founded Syntasso, the Platform-as-a-Product startup.
Today they all get together to talk about about what it takes to build a platform team, why Team Topologies is a good conversation starter and why a curated blend of off-the-shelf, composed, and self-created services are required in any organisation operating at scale.
Your hunch is right, all of them used to share the same Pivotal London office with Tammer Saleh, our guest from episode 31. Chris used to win all table tennis matches without even breaking a sweat, and today Gerhard gets his comeback. Touché!
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