1/13 Here are 10 platform engineering best practices that guarantee you get the ROI you are looking for, and prove once and for all that DevOps just can’t keep up👇
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2/13 These best practices are from my Platform as a Product whitepaper recently published on our website. There I break down everything you need to know about Platform as a Product, it’s challenges, and it’s best practices for delivering value.
Take a look: humanitec.com/whitepapers/pl…
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3/13: Build vs. buy vs. blend. Don’t build everything from scratch. Make an early business case and calculate ROI. Top teams blend OSS with commercial tools. Check out the platform tooling landscape.
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4/13: Apply well-established architecture patterns. that means starting with a solid backend before adding presentation layers. A three-tier architecture will ensure scalability and stability.
You need to build the foundation first - not the UI...
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6/13: Build golden paths, not cages. Provide best practice guidance and flexibility. Give developers the choice to follow golden paths or customize configurations based on security policies.
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7/13: Take an 80/20 attitude. You can’t please every developer. Aim to cover 80% of use cases and be flexible. Trying to satisfy 100% will spread your platform too thin and you'll end up delivering barely any value.
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8/13: You need to let developers choose their interface. If no one adopts your platform, it's a useless platform.
So you need to give them choices that fit with developer preferences and workflows, whether it's code based like Score, a Portal, a CLI, API, or a GUI.
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9/13: Security from the start. Build security and compliance into the platform from day one. If it’s not secure, you won’t get buy-in from security teams, and your initiative will go nowhere.
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10/13: Measure from the beginning. Use need to use both leading (e.g., automation scores) and lagging (e.g., DORA metrics) indicators. If you want to succeed, you need to have a strong to be focusing on developer satisfaction (NPS), SLOs, and SLAs.
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11/13: Gain stakeholder buy-in. Involve security, compliance, legal, architects, I&O, and executives. If your platform goals aren't aligned with the goals of all stakeholders - you won't just fail at adoption, you might not get anywhere at all.
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12/13: Think about adoption from day one. Internal marketing is crucial. You need to onboard the right first team and make them platform advocates ASAP. It's early success that builds momentum and drives long-term adoption.
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13/13 Want to go deeper? Go read the full whitepaper. There is way more in there👇
humanitec.com/whitepapers/pl…
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