Hey there! Welcome to Platform Weekly, your beat of the platform engineering drum. This week we’re talking about the other tech hype train. AI.

Is AI platform engineering the future?

A lot came from PlatformCon 2024 this year. We launched the first official platform engineering course (with some pretty cool surprises coming soon). We also had the first-ever PlatormCon live day. But one thing that we haven’t discussed enough yet… AI!

Now to say that we haven’t discussed AI enough might sound ridiculous to you, but there is one key detail I think is important. This year proved without a doubt that the topics discussed at PlatformCon - set the tone for the next year of Platform Engineering.

• The best practices in Platform as a Product theorized in 2022, became the standard in talks in 2023
• The platform engineering reference architectures shared in 2023 influenced almost 20% of all talks in 2024

There is no reason the ideas discussed this year should be any different in setting the stage for the future.

So, what was shared about AI?

1. How platform engineering teams can augment DevOps with AI by Manjunath Bhat, Research VP, Software Engineering Practice, Gartner broke down how AI tools, technologies, and techniques can boost DevOps to deliver better results
2. Platform engineering and AI - how they impact each other brought together three AI experts to explore how AI and Platform Engineering intersect and complement each other
3. Engineering Cloud Native AI Platform by Yuan Tang, Principal Engineer, Red Hat, cut straight to the core and explores best practices and challenges in building large, efficient, scalable, and reliable AI/ML platforms using cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes
   

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Quick bites

ArticleEvent of the week:

• Balancing Simplicity and Flexibility: The Platform Engineer’s Dilemma

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