Paved Paths Series - Part 5 - The Spectrum of Platform Engineering and Paved Paths
In this post, we explore the extremes between a centralised model and a completely democratised model, and we suggest a possible nirvana between the two.
Platform Engineering is a hot topic right now - QCon London
had an entire track devoted to it in 2023, PlatformCon 2023
saw a massive increase in attendees. It’s seen some huge success in places like Monzo
, where the shape of a microservice is strongly defined by a platform team, and engineers use a single CLI command to generate their instance on said platform. This model is great… when it suits your organisation.