Effective Platform Engineering

Name: Effective Platform Engineering
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Author: Ajay Chankramath
ISBN: 9781633436497

Ajay Chankramath

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Language: English

Published by Manning Publications, US, 2025

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Master Azure without migraines. Cloud development can feel overwhelming, but this book shows you how to build real apps, control costs, and future-proof your career with confidence. Learn practical, hands-on strategies that take you from concepts to production-ready solutions. Hands-on projects: Cement concepts by building a working photo-resizing service and other real examples. End-to-end coverage: Move from storage and networking to DevOps pipelines, keeping every cloud layer connected. Lighthearted explanations: Tackle complex services with humor that keeps learning engaging, not exhausting. Command-line focus: Blend PowerShell and Azure CLI for fast, scriptable deployment and repeatable environments. Built-in security guidance: Apply Azure's native protections and safeguard data before attackers even try. Performance-tuning tips: Optimize virtual machines and App Services to slash bills while boosting speed. Microsoft Azure in Action, by veteran instructor and Microsoft MVP Lars Klint, delivers a practical 425-page roadmap for modern cloud development. The softcover's clear structure and project-driven approach make it a trusted desk reference. Starting with core concepts, the book walks you through storage, networking, compute, and serverless workloads. Each chapter includes concise theory with exercises that show exactly how Azure services fit together. Expect straightforward language, plentiful screenshots, and no fluff. Finish with the skills to migrate on-prem apps, automate deployments, secure resources, and keep costs predictable. You will finally understand not just which Azure service to choose but why it matters to your architecture. Ideal for developers comfortable with a scripting language who want actionable Azure expertise, fast.…

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Title: Effective Platform Engineering
Author: Ajay Chankramath
Publisher: Manning Publications, US
Publication year: 2025
Condition: New
Binding: Hardback
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1633436497
ISBN 13: 9781633436497
Item weight: 449 grams
Dimensions: 18.75 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm

Build the kind of software engineering platforms developers love to use!

An effective developer platform means one thing: productivity. Effective Platform Engineering introduces platform engineering as a discipline, teaching you what goes into a great developer platform and then showing you how to develop your own.

In Effective Platform Engineering, you’ll learn to deliver:

Improved business outcomes
Product management strategies
Secure, scalable Kubernetes-based engineering platforms
Effective Service Level Objectives to boost trust and adoption
Modern control plane patterns that streamline developer workflows

Effective Platform Engineering shows you how to establish and administer the kind of platforms that reduce a dev team’s workload, improve consistency, and accelerate software delivery. Organized in three parts—foundations, building, and scaling—it blends mental models, patterns, and runnable examples to help you go from MVP to production-grade platform. You’ll learn how to treat platforms as products and demonstrate their value by improving engineering outcomes and delivering measurable business impact. You’ll love the book’s informed guidance and practical insights on satisfying stakeholders and driving organizational success.

Foreword by Kief Morris.

About the technology

Platform engineering is the discipline of building internal developer platforms (IDPs) that automate and simplify the software development lifecycle. IDPs provide self-service interfaces to tools and services for infrastructure, deployment, security, observability, and governance, and reduce the need for developers to master complex technologies like Kubernetes. Because they match the specific needs of an organization, well-engineered IDPs can reduce development time by half while delivering better software.

About the book

With Effective Platform Engineering you’ll be able to design, build, deploy, and scale a custom IDP. You’ll discover how platform engineering differs from DevOps and learn to create a platform that evolves with changing requirements. Diagrams, code samples, and exercises help you visualize important concepts. Along the way, you’ll explore critical topics like gathering requirements and establishing realistic service level agreements (SLAs).

What's inside

Automated application workflows
Scalable Kubernetes-based platforms
A well-designed control plane
Custom APIs

About the reader

For software engineers, SREs, and DevOps engineers.

About the author

Ajay Chankramath is the Founder and CEO of Platformetrics. Nic Cheneweth and Bryan Oliver are Principal Consultants at Thoughtworks. Sean Alvarez is the CTO of Life Sciences at Brillio.

Table of Contents

Part 1
1 What is platform engineering?
2 Software-defined products and architectures
3 Measuring your way to platform engineering success
Part 2
4 Governance, compliance, and trust
5 Evolutionary observability
6 Building a software-defined engineering platform
7 Platform control plane foundations
8 Control plane services and extensions
Part 3
9 Architecture changes to support scale
10 Platform product evolution
A Solutions to the exercises

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