Don't Feed the Pigeons

Building an Intentional Developer Platform

You have a developer platform already. You've just stumbled on it accidentally. To stop it being the reason you have to say no more than yes as you start to scale your business up, you need to get intentional about your platform as a product. This book will show you how.

Russ Miles

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A-la-carte DevOps works when you are small and everyone needs to pitch in, but when you make the jump to scale-up everything becomes ... difficult. Your cottage industry of diverse tools and special knowledge across your application development teams, your accidental emergent developer platform, can become the reason you have to say no to the business, with the cost of this diverse platform of infrastructure and tools hitting your CFO where it hurts: in the wasteful cost section of their corporate wallet.

Platform Engineering is the salve to these scale-up woes. In this book you'll explore a journey towards establishing a platform that delivers on the Platform Ratio, i.e. growing business revenue without growing platform cost in a shadowed, straight line. You'll learn about the many principles and gotchas that you can then apply to your own unique context to build the right, intentional, platform for your organisation.

And you'll learn how a developer platform experience can be built as a product that has a positive socio-technical impact across, and even outside, your organisation by ensuring, at the heart of things, that you're not "feeding the pigeons".

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Russ Miles

Russ Miles is on a mission, as an Author, Listener, Speaker and Developer to help people thrive in one of the harshest, and potentially impactful, working environments: software system engineering with AI. He's doing this through Habitat Thinking, Theory and Engineering.

As an expert in Platform, Agentic, Chaos & Resilience, and Software Engineering, Russ helps people navigate the complicated and complex to succeed in software through his talks, workshops, consultancy, books, mentorship, open source contributions, his Software Enchiridion blog and his daily work.

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