1.3 - Mr. Chung Quang Thang.pdf

1. Building Cloud-native
Application Platform
Thang Chung
December 2023

2. 1. Platform Engineering Trends
2. Platform Engineering: Goal and Benefits
3. Platform Engineering at NashTech
4. R&D: Cloud-native Application Platform with
Microsoft Radius
5. Q&A

3. § Creator of Vietnam Microservices Group on Facebook (>16k members).
− https://www.facebook.com/groups/645391349250568
§ Experience: >16 years in software consult, design, development, and
deployment software for outsourcing, product, and startup companies.
§ Expertise in cloud computing, cloud-native platform, serverless, and
WebAssembly/WASI.
§ Blog: https://dev.to/thangchung
§ GitHub: https://github.com/thangchung
§ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thang-chung-2b475614/
§ Twitter: @thangchung
Thang Chung
Technical Manager, NashTech VN
Microsoft Azure MVP

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5. Software Developer
DevOps & SRE

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9. § Platform Engineering is the practice of building useful
abstractions and self-service infrastructure within an
organization, to unify scattered tools and accelerate developer
productivity.
§ Golden Path: templated composition of well-integrated code
and capabilities for rapid project development (software
development lifecycle - SDL)
− For example:
§ A getting-started tutorial
§ Skeleton source code
§ Dependency management
§ CI/CD pipeline template
§ Cloud infrastructure-as-code template
§ Kubernetes YAML files
§ Policy guardrails
§ Logging and monitoring instrumentation
§ Reference documentation
§ Etc.

10. § Increase autonomy: dev team decides what infrastructure should be
created, based on project templates, guidance, and collaboration with the self-
service infrastructure team (Platform + DevOps team).
§ Decrease waiting times: dev team is not waiting time for the IT or
networking team to set up resources.
§ Increase productivity: increased autonomy and decreased waiting
times shall be able to reduce waste during work.
§ Leverage knowledge-sharing: by enabling teams with self-
service, the organization can share the software practices, best practices, and
standards widely for all projects (if they need).
§ Respond to shortage of infrastructure, network,
system, SRE, or DevOps engineers: IT talents are in
high demand on the market. If we can structure and organize a team of experts as
a platform team, then we can leverage and optimize the resources ad people in the
organization.
Organization level
§ Control and increase/decrease the costs of
infrastructure: e.g., TTL required for resources, be able to destroy
resources any time need.
§ Unify stacks and used technologies: through learning
paths, developer golden path, TechRadar…
§ Implement and control security throughout the
whole organization: abstract away the complex of security from
developers by integrated DevSecOps toolsets, IAM, or security network
concerns…
§ Control integrations via authentication services, SCM services,
project management tools…
Project team level
“Platform Engineering aims to mitigate the cognitive overload caused by a shared-responsibility model that's gone too far, by smoothing the day-to-day developer experience.” – Google Cloud

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12. https://accelerator.nashtechglobal.com/platform-engineering/self-service-portal

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https://radapp.io

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25. § https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2024
§ https://martinfowler.com/articles/talk-about-platforms.html
§ https://cncf.landscape2.io/
§ https://accelerator.nashtechglobal.com/platform-engineering/self-service-portal
§ https://blog.nashtechglobal.com/platform-engineering-at-nashtech/
§ https://blog.nashtechglobal.com/platform-engineering-introduce-a-new-nashtech-self-service-
portal-accelerator/
§ https://blog.nashtechglobal.com/platform-engineering-how-nashtech-self-service-portal-
accelerator-work/
§ https://blog.nashtechglobal.com/platform-engineering-exploring-nashtech-self-service-portal-
accelerator-practical-steps/
§ https://radapp.io
§ https://dapr.io
§ https://thenewstack.io/a-deep-dive-into-the-microsoft-radius-architecture/