Hey there! Welcome to Platform Weekly, your weekly swim in the platform engineering fountain.

final chance for platform engineering course

We’re barely 4 days away from lesson 1 of the first-ever official platform engineering fundamentals course. And just a few spots away from needing to close registrations. I am so proud of how this course is coming together. It’s going to be awesome.

What’s in it?

Taking place over 8 weeks and starting August 6th at 7 pm CEST, the course includes 8 core modules + 2 guest lectures (from Manuel Pais, co-author of Platform as a Product, and Ajay Chankramath, former head of platform engineering at Thoughtworks) plus an optional additional hour a week of homework + extra learning, and a private Slack channel for discussions and Q&A.

Contentwise we’ll dive into its relationship to DevOps, Platform as a Product, ensuring adoption, internal selling, and best practices, and how to actually build the perfect Internal Developer Platform.

And not just that - we’ll also be going into the deep technical details of platform engineering (the art of building golden paths, abstraction layers, frontend, and backend designs, everything as code, building Minimum Viable Platforms, and more).

If you want to become a platform engineer, or are one already but want to be a master - or just show off to your boss then…

Come join me next week in the first platform engineering fundamentals course!

Quick bites

‍Article of the week:

• Why your Internal Developer Platform needs a backend

From the community:

• 4000 microservices, 8 million customers, 1 Internal Developer Platform - I am so excited for this webinar!