Episode 8: Platform Engineering with Martin Van Son

Episode 8 of the The Unplanned Show podcast, hosted by PagerDuty, titled "Episode 8: Platform Engineering with Martin Van Son" was published on November 28, 2023 and runs 38 minutes.

November 28, 2023 ·38m · The Unplanned Show

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Summary

In this episode, Martin Van Son provides a simplified definition of platforms in this context: a way for internal users to request anything from environments to deployments. The platform engineering comes in because someone needs to own stitching together and automating away all the complexity involved to complete that action. In the end, both the consumers and the creators save time. Furthermore, platform engineers have an opportunity to encode best practices and cost saving measures that are often forgotten when users are left to their own devices. https://youtu.be/90AEMOQSEC4 Find full show notes: https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/podcast/

Episode Description

In this episode, Martin Van Son provides a simplified definition of platforms in this context: a way for internal users to request anything from environments to deployments. The platform engineering comes in because someone needs to own stitching together and automating away all the complexity involved to complete that action. In the end, both the consumers and the creators save time. Furthermore, platform engineers have an opportunity to encode best practices and cost saving measures that are often forgotten when users are left to their own devices.

https://youtu.be/90AEMOQSEC4

Find full show notes: https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/podcast/

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