DevOps

The Platform Engineering Pitfall You Aren’t Looking For (Yet)

Submitted by jdafnis on August 3, 2023
A 1200 x 630 px graphic promoting an episode of Pulling the Strings, the Puppet podcast, about developer productivity engineering and platform engineering. Inset is the face of Justin Reock, Field CTO at Gradle, in grayscale. Text reads: "The Platform Engineering Pitfall You Aren't Looking For (Yet) - David Sandilands - Justin Reock"
With David Sandilands, Gradle Field CTO Justin Reock shares his perspective on developer productivity engineering – the point where right-brain creativity, left-brain productivity, and ‘joyful activity’ intersect to create what's broadly called the ‘developer experience – and where platform engineering is headed with and without it.

“Write a Book About Puppet 8,” They Said. “It’ll Be Fun,” They Said.

Submitted by jdafnis on July 28, 2023
A banner image promoting an episode of Pulling the Strings, the Puppet podcast, where a guest describes writing the Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers book. Text reads: "'Write a Book About Puppet 8,' They Said. 'It'll Be Fun,' They Said. Ben Ford | David Sandilands"
The opportunity to write a Puppet 8 book landed in David Sandilands’s lap when he had just started at Puppet and with a child on the way. About a year and a half later in mid-2023, “Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers” launched via Packt. This is the story of everything that happened in the middle.