Oreilly – Effective Platform Engineering, Video Edition 2025-10

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Effective Platform Engineering, Video Edition. This course is a comprehensive guide to the principles and practices of building effective software platforms that aims to increase developer productivity and accelerate delivery through infrastructure automation. The course introduces platform engineering as a distinct discipline and teaches the characteristics of a great developer platform and its design path. The primary goal is to empower teams to build internal developer platforms (IDPs) that simplify and automate the software lifecycle by providing self-service interfaces to infrastructure tools, deployment, security, monitoring, and data governance. This reduces the need for developers to master complex technologies like Kubernetes and allows them to focus on coding and creating value. The course is organized into three sections: Foundations, Build, and Scalability, and provides a mix of mental models, design patterns, and practical coding examples to illustrate the path from prototype to production-level platform. The main emphasis is on treating the platform as a “product” that requires understanding the needs of stakeholders and proving its economic value to management. The practical insights of this course make it possible to build a platform that reduces the workload of technical teams, increases system stability, and dramatically improves the speed of software delivery.

What you will learn

Improve business outcomes: Learn how to align the platform with the organization’s strategic goals.
Product management strategies: Learning to treat the platform as a commercial product and attract user satisfaction.
Building Kubernetes-based platforms: Designing secure and scalable engineering platforms based on Kubernetes.
Define effective SLOs: Create Service Level Objectives to increase user trust and further platform adoption within the organization.
Modern Control Plane Patterns: Using new patterns to simplify and streamline developer workflows.
Automate Workflows: Create automated flows for applications to eliminate manual intervention.
Designing custom APIs: Developing custom programming interfaces to better interact with the infrastructure.
The difference between platform engineering and DevOps: A deep understanding of the distinctions between these two fields and how platforms evolve as project requirements change.

This course is suitable for people who:

Software Engineers: People who want to improve their development process and become familiar with modern platforms.
SRE Engineers: Professionals who seek to increase system stability and reduce manual operations.
DevOps Engineers: Those who plan to move from manual infrastructure management to building automated platforms.
System architects: People who are responsible for designing large, scalable infrastructures in large organizations.
Technical managers: Those who want to continuously measure and enhance the productivity of their engineering teams.