The famous tagline from Werner Vogel in 2006 is still used in many presentations promoting DevOps and the autonomy of development teams. But how long does and did this really scale?

Based on our guest Luca Galante, Head of Product at Humanitec, organizations that reach 50-100 engineers start experiencing the first bottlenecks. After initial workarounds sometimes leading to Shadow Ops it’s the time where organizations look into building Internal Development Platforms (IDP). This is where Platform Engineering is born by providing “Golden Paths around DevOps & SRE” as a self-service to engineering teams.

Tune in an learn more about the emerging practice of platform engineering, why it already attracted more than 11000 global community members, has an annual dedicated conference and why global analysts are putting Platform Engineering in the Top Trends of 2023! We referenced a lot of material in our discussion. Here all the promised links:

What is Platform Engineering: https://platformengineering.org/blog/what-is-platform-engineering
Platform Engineering Community: https://platformengineering.org
PlatformCon: https://platformcon.com/
Platform Weekly: https://platformweekly.com/
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“You Build It, You Run It Doesn’t Scale!” with Luca Galante