Yuki Tanabe
Staff Platform Engineer
Yuki maintains internal developer platforms used by four thousand engineers. Her work focuses on the narrow path between too much abstraction and none at all.
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Platform Engineering in Practice
Building the Internal Platform Your Engineers Will Actually Use
By Yuki Tanabe and Aaron Whitfield
Pre-orderMulti-cloudAdvancedPlatform EngineeringCost
Internal platforms fail in two directions. Abstract too little and you have published a wiki page. Abstract too much and you have built a second cloud that only three people understand.
Yuki Tanabe and Aaron Whitfield describe the middle path: golden paths that remain escapable, interfaces that degrade gracefully to the underlying provider, funding and staffing models that survive reorgs, and adoption measured by something other than a mandate.
What you'll learn
- Design golden paths that engineers can escape when they must
- Build interfaces that degrade gracefully to the raw provider
- Fund and staff a platform team so it survives reorganization
- Measure adoption with signals other than a mandate
Table of contents
- 01Two Ways to Fail26 pp
- 02Escapable Golden Paths40 pp
- 03Interfaces That Degrade Gracefully38 pp
- 04Funding and Staffing32 pp
- 05Measuring Adoption34 pp
- 06The Platform as a Product36 pp
6 chapters · 340 pages total
Details
- ISBN
- 978-1-959321-17-5
- Edition
- 1st
- Pages
- 340
- Published
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB
- Platform
- Multi-cloud
About the authors
Aaron Whitfield
FinOps Practitioner
Aaron has cut eight-figure cloud bills without cutting a single feature. He argues that cost is a design constraint, not an accounting problem.