The last "platform" diagram you'll ever need - Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #66
The last “platform” diagram you’ll ever need, chop the first paragraph. Scroll all the way down for two secret videos about kubernetes.
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A Good "Platform" Diagram
I’m always looking for good diagrams of a “developer platform,” an “internal platform,” whatever you want to call that stuff you run on-top of kubernetes. Here’s a good one from Forrester, from a webinar I did with them earlier this year:
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Axe the intro paragraph analogy if you don't refer back to it
Often, when you’re writing about tech stuff, you’ll make a reference to some mainstream culture thing. Well, or, like, science fiction, you know, I, Robot and stuff. You might also make an analogy to cars, road systems, whatever.
Here’s one making an analogy between traffic laws and enterprise governance:
In tech writing, using analogies to real life stuff is great. Software and governance concepts are so conceptual that it’s a good start. However, in writing, if you don’t come back to that analogy, you should cut it. For example, if the text after this opening paragraph comes back to “you know, like speed laws that are adapted to the regional context they’re in,” leave the text in. But, if you never return to that analogy, just cut it and start with the tech stuff.
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“I would argue in retrospect that the answer was not to hire more (neurotypical) executives, the answer was to keep looking for executives who were going to work well with me. I didn’t feel as entitled to keep looking for those people. And so, I was struggling against (the reality) these are very normal people who in a normal situation would probably do fine. But I was having to work three times, four times harder to get them to succeed under me, because I’m different, I’m weird,” he said.
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From back in Nov. 2021.
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More from the State of Kubernetes 2022 survey
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I’m still putting together some videos highlighting as few points on of our upcoming survey. Here’s some WIP videos just for you, dear newsletter subscribers: how many clusters people run, multi-cloud findings, and the security one.