Peer talk with AWS Container Hero Philipp Garbe #AWSreInvent

I believe experienced people, tech veterans, and leaders always think alike but the way they think is always different and that's the real value behind taking different perceptions about the same thing.

In this blog I had an amazing peer talk at Reinvent with Philipp Garbe on Platform Engineering as this was very crucial.

Background of tech team

In our teams, we use aws as much as we can that solved and brought its own challenges.

What is Platform Engineering and how do you see DevOps conversion to PE?

• Devops is a mindset, Its about where is running and how is it running.
• For our team, we always established that devops should do the both (dev+ ops) , the idea that responsibility should be shared.

• Before this we had seperate teaams whete ops use to complaint, devs blamed ops.

• The line between infrastructure and application is blowing and move together, app team should be fully responsible for applications without worrying about the infrastructure.

• The best platform is the one which understands customer, understand their problem.

Do you think platform engineer could be a role or mindset?

• It's very eary to say whether it would be come as a seperate role but definitely it is a mindset to allow application team to self provision infrastructure without depending on the ops team. As platform grows and become complex then maybe there will be a need to have seperate platform team for the platform.

How to integrate AI with devops

I was expecting these answers because at this moment even i face the same problem in my day to day tasks when it comes to AI integration

• So far AI is very dificult to be used and integrate
• Legal and compliance factor. should be first checked how data will be stored and shared. I will have more confidence with AI integration when data is not leaving AWS.
• AI at this point is not possible to add to devops solutions.

Q how do you see left approach in infrastructure

• securtity team should be there but team should be able to do security left first, there is no point of security team if security is added in the end. Security should added in the first in the app development cycle.

However, it requires lot of tooling, examples documentation for the security blueprints that is why kubernetes left shift is not possible.