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SE Radio 565: Luca Galante on Platform Engineering

May 23, 2023

01:00:06

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Luca Galante

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Building a Platform: A Focus on 10x Improvement for Developers

01:51

Bottlenecks in Product Teams and the Benefits of Eliminating Them

01:18

Introduction

2min

Cognitive Load and Self-Service

2min

The Importance of Pass Offerings

3min

The Differences Between Platform Engineering and an Internal Developer Platform

3min

The Struggles of DevOps

3min

The Future of Platform Engineering

5min

The Importance of Code Base Interfaces in Platforms

2min

How to Be a Successful Developer Using a Platform Like Score

2min

What Is a Workload?

2min

10.

The Benefits of Platform Engineering for Developers

3min

11.

The Importance of Consistent Practices in Software Engineering

2min

12.

The Importance of Golden Paths in Platform Engineering

5min

13.

How to Reduce Pain in Engineering Teams

2min

14.

The Importance of Understanding the Customer's Pain

3min

15.

The Importance of Soft Skills in Software Engineering

1min

16.

The 10 Fallacies of Platform Engineering

5min

17.

The Beauty of Treating Your Platform as a Product

4min

18.

The Importance of Technical Empathy in Software Development

4min

19.

Platform Con: The Number One Platform Engineering Conference

5min

Luca Galante, head of product at Humanitec, joins host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about platform engineering. They begin by defining platform engineering and its relationship to, and distinction from, DevOps. Tracing platform engineering's history, Luca describes how internal developer platforms are fundamental, and then explores the goals of addressing complexity and reducing the cognitive load on developers by creating golden paths.

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