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Navigating the Maze: Challenges in Seeking Support in Big Tech Companies

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Andreas Ttofi

In an era where technology is the backbone of business operations, the role of support teams within big tech companies is more critical than ever.

Interfaces for Internal Developer Platforms

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Ilia Chernov

A few of the reasons Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are built are to enable self-service for developers and to enable efficient collaboration between developers and other departments.

Crossplane: the good, the bad and the ugly

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Simon Aquino

Crossplane is an infrastructure provisioning tool engineered to bridge the gap between infrastructure automation, Kubernetes and reconciliation on steroids. Its main ethos is to provide a unified declarative API to abstract different cloud implementations and leverage Kubernetes to run the provisioning workload.

Case Study: Seamless Cross-cloud Application Deployments

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Dr Derek Mortimer

Where We Were Driven by a long-term engagement with CECG, one of our longest-standing clients had a well-established Kubernetes-based Internal Developer Platform (IDP) known as the Core Platform running on AWS.

Here’s how the 1000 users of the developer platform got introduced to autoscaling

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Phivos Phivou

As a consultancy, we regularly take part in the development and maintenance of platforms used by a large number of people, sometimes hundreds of development teams.

AWS Landing Zone: The Art of Taking Off with a Low Code Solution

Posted on February 1, 2024 by Senna Semakula-Buuza

Discover streamlining landing zone creation from the ground up using a low-code approach, optimising efficiency and reducing development complexities.

Embracing Innovation in CI/CD Pipelines: A Shift From Traditional Practices

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Neofytos Zacharia

Embracing Innovation in CI/CD Pipelines: A Shift From Traditional Practices The software development industry has long-established practices and tools for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

Case Study: Security for a large multinational media provider’s Internal Developer Platform

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Tiago Alves

The client is a large multinational that operates in different parts of the world. In each of these geolocations, there are different products, which means different developer platforms with different security requirements.

Platform Lifecycle Management with Flux & Concourse

Posted on January 3, 2024 by Thoiba Thoudam

Platform Lifecycle Management is a crucial element in the realm of software development, shaping and executing the procedural flow for deploying and promoting changes across multiple environments - from CI and Test to Dev, PreProd, and ultimately, Production.

Unravelling Kubernetes Networking: A Comparative Guide to Choosing the Best CNI

Posted on December 29, 2023 by Andreas Ttofi

What is CNI (Container Network Interface)? The Container Network Interface (CNI) is a specification and a set of libraries for designing plugins used to configure network interfaces in Linux containers.