Platform Engineering Tools Can HURT More Than HELP

Are power tools like Kubernetes, Kafka & Istio a bad choice in the context of Platform Engineering? If that really is the case... what platform engineering tools should you use instead? In this episode on the Modern Software Engineering channel, Steve Smith breaks down the truth about these tools and offers his advice on how to make the best choice for your platform engineering system. - Steve on X ➡️ https://x.com/SteveSmith_Tech Steve on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesmithtech/ Steve on bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/stevesmithtech.bsky.social Modern Software Engineering on X ➡️ https://x.com/ModernSoftwareX Modern Software Engineering on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-software-engineering Modern Software Engineering on bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/modernswe.bsky.social - ⭐ PATREON: Join the Continuous Delivery community and access extra perks & content! ➡️ https://bit.ly/ContinuousDeliveryPatreon 🎥 Join Us On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@modern.s.engineering - CHANNEL SPONSORS: Tuple is a remote ensemble and pair programming app for macOS and Windows, designed to make you feel like you're collaborating in person. It’s got loads of developer-specific touches you just don’t see with generic screen-sharing tools. Check out Tuple HERE ➡️ https://tuple.app/cd Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 TransFICC provides low-latency connectivity, automated trading workflows and e-trading systems for Fixed Income and Derivatives. TransFICC resolves the issue of market fragmentation by providing banks and asset managers with a unified low-latency, robust and scalable API, which provides connectivity to multiple trading venues while supporting numerous complex workflows across asset classes such as Rates and Credit Bonds, Repos, Mortgage-Backed Securities and Interest Rate Swaps ➡️ https://transficc.com Honeycomb is the observability platform that enables engineering teams to find and solve problems they couldn’t before. Query everything at once, fast enough to keep your train of thought, and connect your whole system and your teams ➡️ https://bit.ly/CDHC - 🔗 LINKS: Steve's Blog ➡️ www.stevesmith.tech/blog Steve's Books ➡️ https://leanpub.com/u/stevesmith - #platformengineering #softwareengineering #programming #softwaredevelopment #coding