7 platform engineering blueprints that can save the day for developer teams

While cloud providers have individuated designs to create landing zones within their respective environments, there is little available guidance on creating modern enterprise hybrid multicloud landing zones. This lack of informed guidance with clear design goals and architectural reasoning results in duplication and reinvention as opposed to increasing learning and enhancing rigor.

When most people think about creating golden paths, they think about the simple scaffolding use case of a new service or resource. However, this leaves out the remaining 99% of golden paths you can and should design for your developers. Here’s how to design sustainable golden paths that help both developers and platform engineers.

The tech we have today is amazing, but it can also be complex. This talk reflects on two decades of building complex distributed systems, highlighting where abstractions helped and where illusions led to major disappointments.