Building Software Platforms
Building Software Platforms
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Abstract
In today's digital world, software organizations are increasingly turning to native cloud models to stay competitive and agile. Platform Engineering teams play a crucial role in this transition, curating and integrating technology innovations from cloud providers to enable business success through modern developer platforms.
But building these platforms is more than just a technical challenge. It requires a strategic approach that empowers developers to solve business problems and treats the platform itself as an internal product. With that goal, today's software engineering leaders like you seek architectural and strategic guidance for building successful systems in the modern cloud by leveraging serverless architectures and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the organization.
Whether you're a platform engineer, a software developer, or a manager looking to transform your organization's approach to the cloud, this book offers pragmatic insights and best practices for building modern software platforms that drive business success. Building Software Platforms is a nonsense-free, principles-based guide to help leaders like you roll out this new architectural style so that development teams can focus on building and delivering value for the end users. In this book, the author shares the secrets of internal software platforms and introduces adoption strategies using Wardley maps.
To assist in this transition, Building Software Platforms curates an assortment of AWS innovations that describe how to design and implement many of the recommendations using AWS cloud services, with a preference for serverless computing.
Have a look at the Table of Contents right below!
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
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Preface
- What’s in this book?
- Who should read this book?
- What will you learn?
- Acknowledgments
- Here we go!
- PART I: STRATEGY
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Chapter 1: Transitioning to SaaS
- Reinventing yourself
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Building and buying software
- Evolving toward a service economy
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Chapter 2: Internal Software Platforms
- Appreciating the mundane
- Serverless: the modern cloud
- Empowering developers
- Internal software platforms
- Build and Buy patterns for the business services
- The benefits of internal software platforms
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Chapter 3: Platform Services
- Designing for the people
- Core Infrastructure
- Lifecycle Automation Management
- Core Enablement Services
- Platform Design System
- Platform Configuration
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Chapter 4: Platform Teams
- Holding fast, staying true
- What is a platform team?
- How do platform teams fit within the organization?
- What value do these teams create?
- Interacting with platform teams
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Chapter 5: Platform Adoption
- Leapfrogging
- The Digital Platform economy
- A multi-competence strategy
- Building platform-based business services
- Platform buy-in
- PART II: PRINCIPLES
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Chapter 6: Technical Architecture Principles
- Favor serviceful platforms over monoliths
- Favor iterations over big up-front designs
- Favor asynchronous integrations over synchronous ones
- Favor elimination over re-engineering
- Favor re-engineering over multiplying
- Favor duplicity over hasty abstractions
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Chapter 7: Technology Principles
- Make your platform reachable
- Define everything as code
- Use the cloud platform as a programmable system
- Secure your platform access and data
- Observability and visibility
- Use open standards
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Chapter 8: Serverless-first Software Engineering
- Building portable software
- A serverless-first approach with AWS
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