The document discusses the signs indicating a need for platform engineering, highlighting its role in enhancing developer productivity and operational efficiency. It outlines critical factors such as growing development teams, complex application infrastructure, and the demand for developer self-service, which can signal the necessity for internal developer platforms (IDP). Additionally, it introduces the concept of weaving GitOps into the platform engineering strategy to bolster automation and governance.

1. The 6 Signs
That You Need
Platform Engineering

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Joe Dahlquist
VP of Product Marketing,
Weaveworks
Joe Dahlquist leads product marketing at Weaveworks.
An accomplished product leader with over 20 years of
experience in PM and PMM roles, Joe has worked on
software, hardware, and services products that have
delighted millions of users and partners in cybersecurity,
consumer electronics, financial services, access control,
and more.
Speaker introductions
Mohamed Ahmed
VP of Developer Platforms,
Weaveworks
Mo is a seasoned engineering leader. He is currently the
VP of developer platform at weaveworks. Mo ran Magalix,
the policy-as-code company, which Weaveworks acquired
early 2022. Mo shipped various IaaS and PaaS developer
products at tech giants Microsoft and Amazon, focusing
on democratizing robust cloud solutions.

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6. ● A 🔥hot🔥 topic with lots of
confusion and complexity
● Not interchangeable, terms mean
different things
● Companies play buzzword bingo
● New tools, but not a new concept
IDP vs. IDP vs. Platform Engineering

7. ● The evolved state of DevOps
● It’s an approach, a methodology
● Standardizes tech used by
developers and DevOps engineers
● Abstract away complexity and
manual steps
● Reduce Dev dependency on Ops
● Increase developer velocity and
app reliability
What is Platform Engineering
Waterfall > Agile > DevOps > Platform Engineering
Continuous Ops, GitOps,
DevSecOps, FinOps, GreenOps

8. ● Platform Engineering is a
methodology
● IDP(latform) is a thing people use
to do Platform Engineering
● Built by Platform Teams (evolved
Ops teams)
● Configured to define and enforce
golden paths and governance
● External developer platforms also
exist
Internal Developer Platform

9. ● A component of an Internal
Developer Platform
● Built by Platform Teams to improve
Developer Experience (DX)
● A developers (graphical) interface
to the Platform
● Simplify the mess of complex tools
● Push-button, get infrastructure
● Visibility for pipelines, app state
Internal Developer Portal

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✓ Everyone on a cloud-native journey
✓ Tools and tech make it accessible
✓ Extreme focus on developer
productivity and ops efficiency
✓ High demand for apps and features
✓ Security and compliance
✓ Quality of life
Why So Trendy?

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Pre-configured envs, automated routine tasks
(configs, monitoring, etc.)
1
INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY
2 Increase devs autonomy w/ self-provisioning
of resources
SELF-SERVICE OPERATIONS
3 Streamline CI/CD, zero-touch deployments, auto
health checks
FASTER TESTING & DEPLOYMENTS
4 Consistently enforce security best practices
ENHANCED & CONSISTENT SECURITY
WHAT'S IN IT
FOR
APPLICATION
DEVELOPERS

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Automated routine tasks to focus on
engineering rather than ops
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REDUCED TOIL
2 No manual provisioning; easy to enforce
automated efficiency.
EFFICIENT RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
3 Auto scan & remediation of non-compliant changes.
IMPROVED COMPLIANCE AND GOVERNANCE
4 Support more teams w/o additional operational
work
SCALABILITY
WHAT'S IN IT
FOR
PLATFORM
ENGINEERS

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DEVOPS &
COLLABORATIVE
CULTURE
BASIC
AUTOMATION
DATA
DRIVEN
DECISION
MAKING
DEVOPS & COLLABORATIVE CULTURE
The more connected, the more data sharing
and exchange is critical to team's success
BASIC AUTOMATION
IDP is about automatic information sharing as
they events and updates take place.
DATA DRIVEN DECISION MAKING
IDPs without a north star and metrics to improve will
stall very quickly and become limited in impact
WHAT'S THE COMMON THREAD?
We interviewed and talked to dozens of teams and
companies implemented developer platforms. We
found some commonalities among the successful
IDP implementations

14. 6 SIGNS THAT YOU NEED AN IDP
IF YOU HAVE 2 OF THEM...
You should be worried about not having an IDP :)

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#6
GROWING DEVELOPMENT TEAMS
On-boarding time,
repeated questions,
time to answer
Scaling
challenges
time needed to
coordinate routine
tasks
Inefficient
collaboration
Number of ops
requests/tickets,
time to resolve them
Overburdened
Ops Team
Deployment failure
rates
Increased
downtime

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COMPLEX APPS
& INFRA
Multi &
Hybrid cloud
Time replicating and
maintaining across
different environments
Complex
Deployment
Pipeline
Time to deploy
new updates
Microservices
architecture
Rate of growth
Number of
microservices
Increased
IaC
Complexity
Divergence from one
environment to another
COMPLEX APPS & INFRA
#5

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PLATFORM
ENGINEERING
CULTURE
ADOPTION
DevOps Adoption
Automation is
prevailing IaC,
automated test,
monitoring, etc.
Continuous Learning
& Improvement
How frequently teams review and
improve processes (CoE exists?)
PLATFORM ENGINEERING CULTURE
ADOPTION
#4
PLATFORM ENGINEERING CULTURE
Are there frequent
cross teams decisions
Frequent Cross-Team
Collaboration

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1
Features release
frequency
(& competition)
MARKET
PRESSURE
2
How frequent teams iterate
on the product features
FREQUENT PRODUCT
ITERATION 3
Pressure from sales and
customer success
NEED FOR FASTER
RESPONSES
ACCELERATING BUSINESS VELOCITY
#3

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COMPLIANCE AND SECURITY REQUIREMENTS
#2
The number &
complexity of new
regulatory
requirements
REGULATORY
CHANGES
The number and severity of security
incident over time
SECURITY
INCIDENTS
Volume and
sensitivity of data
your company
handles
DATA
PRIVACY

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#1
DEMAND FOR DEVELOPER SELF-SERVICE
LONG LEAD TIME
TO PROVISION RESOURCES
The time it takes a Developer
to provision an environment
FREQUENT REQUEST
FOR RESOURCES
How frequently and how fast
Developers ask for their own
environments.
DEVELOPER
TURNOVER
Ask why Developers are leaving?!

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LET'S BRING THEM
ALL TOGETHER! COMPLIANCE & SECURITY
ACCELERATING BUSINESS
VELOCITY
PLATFORM ENGINEERING
CULTURE
COMPLEX APPS & INFRA
GROWING DEVELOPMENT
TEAMS
DEVELOPER SELF-SERVICE

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PLATFORM ENGINEERING
STRATEGY
02
MAKE IT A SHARED
RESPONSIBILITY
04
MEASURE THE
SUCCESS OF
YOUR IDP
03
ADDRESS BOTH THE
TOPLINE AND
BOTTOMLINE
SUCCESSFUL
IDP
01
ONE STEP
AT A TIME

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Reduce human intervention to reduce errors and risk
Add trust, security and compliance to any platform, any maturity level
Weave GitOps at the Center

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Weave GitOps

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Platform Engineering
- The Art of Modern Ops
- Blog Post
- Whitepaper
Recent Podcast with Alexis
Richardson Link
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