Platform Engineering refers to Technical Software Delivery Capability Platforms. This does not include your domain specific business or experience platforms. This workshop helps with clarity on the idea of Platform Engineering, why that is needed, how it can be implemented and how to measure the success around this. It provides a value measurement driven way of looking at a set of capabilities and prioritizing what capabilities should be built and why some of the other capabilities should not. It also looks at key criteria one has to consider across different platform engineering domains as you consider your PE journey. We'll help you explore how AWS products and services such as ELB, CloudFront, Security Groups, RDS/S3, EBS, Autoscaling, Terraform, CircleCI can evolve your engineering platform towards becoming more cloud native

Activities

• Day 1 - Introduction to Platform Engineering. Personas and the strategy and culture of adopting in an organization. Talks about the Devops culture and how to bring PE into a DevOps world
• Day 2 – Components of Platform Engineering. Why are they needed and how to choose them. Determining value. Explores the horizontal and vertical models. Talks about how Platform Engineering coexists with SRE and fully empowered development teams
• Day 3/ Day 4 – Case Study of an organization going through Platform Adoption (Tailored to the size of the participant organization with some preliminary information obtained prior to the workshop)
• Day 5 – Driving platform adoption and building an organizational and delivery roadmap

Deliverables

• Best practices of building a Platform Engineering function in your organization
• Specific blueprint of the next steps in building a team, building capabilities, adopting them and changing the culture
• Roadmap for your PE journey
• Identified Potential use cases