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Platform Engineering: The Big Picture

This course will help you explore platform engineering and discover how it can elevate cloud-native development, making developers' lives easier while achieving new heights in software delivery.

Steve Buchanan - Pluralsight course - Platform Engineering: The Big Picture
by Steve Buchanan

What you'll learn

Many organizations have embraced DevOps and adopted technologies like Kubernetes, cloud computing, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Pulumi. Despite these efforts, they often face challenges in delivering on the promises of DevOps and cloud native. Platform engineering emerges as the next step in the evolution, breaking down barriers and empowering developers to bring software to the market faster and more efficiently. In this course, Platform Engineering: The Big Picture, you'll explore platform engineering and discover how it can elevate cloud-native development, making developers' lives easier while achieving new heights in software delivery. First, you’ll explore what platform engineering is and its benefits. Next, you’ll discover platform engineering tooling and architecture. Finally, you'll understand internal developer platforms, how to manage a platform as a product, and how to adopt platform engineering. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of platform engineering needed to take the next steps with it.

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About the author

Steve Buchanan - Pluralsight course - Platform Engineering: The Big Picture
Steve Buchanan

Steve Buchanan is a Director with a large consulting firm serving as the Azure Platform Offering Lead, & Containers Services Lead. He is a 10-time Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, and the author of eight technical books. He has presented at tech events, including, DevOps Days, Open Source North, Midwest Management Summit (MMS), Microsoft Ignite, BITCon, Experts Live Europe, OSCON, Inside Azure management, and user groups. He stays active in the technical community and enjoys blogging about his adventures in the world of IT at www.buchatech.com

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