Resources
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A list of books, writings and papers about the Internal Platforms team and products.
Books
- Building Software Platforms: A Guide to SaaS Transition with AWS
- Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
Articles, papers and writings
- 2023 What Is Platform Engineering? Role, Principles & Benefits
- 2022 Platform Engineering Needs a Prescriptive Roadmap: a Conversation with Nigel Kersten
- 2022 What is Platform Engineering
- 2021 mind the platform execution gap
- 2021 The pursuit of software teams autonomy: how we created an Internal Platform at Packlink
- 2021 How we rolled out our Kubernetes platform in Adevinta Spain by Pau Gay
- 2021 Preventing “go-around” with Platform Thinking by Kislay Verma
- 2021 How LinkedIn turned to real-time feedback for developer tooling by Michael Berlowitz
- 2020 Camille Fournier on Effectively Managing Internal Platform Teams
- 2020 KubeCon NA 2020 Key Takeaways: Platforms, Safety, and End Users by Daniel Bryant
- 2020 Effective storytelling for internal platform teams by Rebecca Murphey
- 2020 Why Sport1 built their Internal Developer Platform by Paolo Garri
- 2020 Why Everyone Builds Internal Kubernetes Platforms by Daniel Thiry
- 2020 Why Zalando built their Internal Developer Platform by Jan Löffler
- 2020 Why managing dev environments is a full time job at Eventbrite by Ethan J. Jackson
- 2020 Building an Internal Kubernetes Platform by Daniel Thiry
- 2020 Platform Engineering by Luis Alonzo Herrera
- 2020 How We Improved Developer Productivity for Our DevOps Teams by Maria Jernström and Jason palmer
- 2020 Advocating for a Product Mindset within Platform Teams and How We Do It at HelloTech (Part 1) by Samantha Coffman
- 2020 How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers by Galo Navarro
- 2020 For DevOps, internal platforms and self-service options are in by Joe McKendrick
- 2020 Why GitHub built their own Internal Developer Platform by Jason Warner
- 2020 A case against “Platform Teams” by Kislay Verma
- 2020 Building a Platform Team — Laying the Foundations by Vasa
- 2020 Product for Internal Platforms by Camille Fournier
- 2020 The Rise of Platform Engineering by Nick Daigler
- 2019 Can An Internal Technology Platform Give Your Company A Competitive Advantage? by Maarten Wensveen
- 2019 Managing Platform Teams: How to Structure and Run a Great Platform Team – Interview with Karen Cohen From Wix.com
- 2018 How to build a platform team now! the secrets to successful engineering by Kenichi Shibata
- 2018 What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms by Evan Bottcher
- 2017 Why We Don’t Need a DevOps Team by Andrew Hatch
- 2017 Why Do Organizations Need a Platform Team? by David Jared (Adobe Tech)
- 2017 Platform engineering product teams in the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
- 2017 Internal Product Management: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- 2015 “Let a 1,000 Flowers Bloom. Then RIP 999 of them out by the roots” by Peter Seibel (Twitter)
Great reference websites, conferences and courses
- Platform Engineering
- PlatformCon
- Platform as a Product course
- Digital Platform Playbook by Equal Experts
- Internal Developer Platform by Humanitec
Talks
2021 How to make your developers self-serving with an Internal Developer Platform by Kaspar von Grünberg
2021 Challenges in building and scaling internal platform teams
2020 WTF is Platform as a Product with Matthew Skelton
2020 Why did you build an Internal Developer Platform at Github?
2020 The Cloud Native Journey @Apple - Alena Prokharchyk, Software Engineer, Apple
2020 Toolchains Behind Successful Kubernetes Development Workflows
2020 Spanish: Una aproximación a la infraestructura evolutiva by David Lluna and Paco Sanchez
2020 Kubernetes is Not Your Platform, It’s Just the Foundation
2020 Minimum Viable Product for Platforms by Martin Cagan
2019 How Stripe Invests in Technical Infrastructure
2020 Podcast: The challenges and opportunities of Platform engineering and DevOps
2019 Platform as a Product: How to Delight Your Developers and Deliver Value for Your Customers
2019 What is a Thinnest Viable Platform (TVP)? - Team Topologies
2019 What is Platform Product Management by Airbnb Product Manager
2018 Infrastructure as product: Building GitHub’s future - GitHub Universe 2018
2018 Platforms at Twilio: Unlocking Developer Effectiveness
2018 Nuts and bolts of building a platform team (Flatiron Health) by Stacy Goerik
2017 What I talk about when I talk about ‘Platforms’ - Evan Bottcher
2017 John Cutler - Product Thinking For Internal Teams - Øredev 2017
2017 Managing Your Platform as a Product with Scott Shaw
2016 “Scaling Infrastructure Engineering at Slack” by Julia Grace