Platform Strategies & Platform Engineering | Gregor Hohpe In The Engineering Room Ep. 24

Gregor Hohpe. is a world-class expert on software architecture and the role of the architect, he is a technologist and expert on the topics of large-scale systems and the public Cloud as well as lots of other stuff. Gregor is currently part of the Serverless team working as an Enterprise Strategist for Amazon at AWS, 
Previously he was Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Google, and before that was Chief SW Architect at Allianz the German Insurance giant.
Gregor is an international speaker, author of Several great books, as well as writing on his always thought-provoking blog, “The Architect Elevator”. and he’s just published a new book called “Platform Strategy”

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🖇 LINKS
🔗 "Architect Elevator Blog" https://architectelevator.com/blog/
🔗 "Architecture as Code" https://architectelevator.com/cloud/i...

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:24 Start
00:01:38 What is a Platform?
00:03:21 "Platforms are Abstractions that Work!"
00:05:20 Why we Only Find Good Platforms Every 20 or 30 Years?
00:06:11 Good Platforms Remove Work
00:08:07 Should we Leave Building "Platforms" to Others?
00:12:04 Where Platforms Go Wrong
00:14:04 Good Platforms Change the Vocabulary
00:15:14 Common Mistakes in Platform Engineering
00:21:45 You Need VERY Skilled Devs to Build Effective Platforms
00:22:33 Focus on the Problem Not the Tech.
00:23:19 Sinking vs Floating
00:26:34 Keeping Options Open through Architecture
00:27:50 Platforms - the Pinacle of Good Design
00:29:01 What Strategies Work?
00:32:43 Using Platforms to Join the Dots
00:35:27 Reducing Cognitive Load
00:40:10 New Programming Models for the Cloud

📚 BOOKS:

📖 "Cloud Strategy", Gregor Hohpe ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cloudstrategy
LINKS:

📖 "Enterprise Integration Patterns", ➡️ Gregor Hohpe https://amzn.to/47r2j56

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3
and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible.

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley
Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA
ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

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