January 2023 Summaries

Multicloud is the strategic use of various public and private cloud providers to help optimize costs, performance, and usability, while increasing the scope of features and regions available. It involves picking IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS offerings that can be integrated seamlessly and avoiding single points of failure. Multicloud is not about redundancy or security; rather, it's about strategic utilization of multiple cloud providers to achieve specific goals such as cost optimization, compatibility, functionality, and usability. It's also a means to address compliance and geolocation requirements, and to provide flexibility for engineering teams. A well-planned multicloud strategy can help organizations reduce costs, improve performance, and increase agility, but it requires careful planning, research, and implementation to avoid complexity and single points of failure.

This summary provides an overview of how to create a simple Workload specification with Score and deploy it to multiple environments using the Humanitec Platform Orchestrator. The tutorial demonstrates the benefits of workload-centric development, where developers only need to write a simple Workload Specification file to define the configuration schema of the workload, including dependent resources and other properties. Humanitec uses this schema to contextually inject values depending on the environment, allowing for dynamic configuration management. The tutorial covers the steps to create a Humanitec App, populate config values, create a value for the workload, create a Workload Specification file, deploy the workload, verify the deployment, and clean up. By using Score and Humanitec, developers can easily deploy workloads across different environments with minimal configuration changes.

PlatformCon is a virtual conference organized by Humanitec that aims to bring together the platform engineering community. The event will take place on June 8th and 9th, 2023, and promises to be bigger and better than last year's success. Platform engineering is seen as a key trend in cloud-native software development, aiming to reduce cognitive load and improve developer productivity. The conference features a wide range of topics, including building platforms for enterprise use cases, technical solutions for platform teams, and cultural considerations for platform engineering. Experts, leaders, and practitioners are encouraged to submit their talk proposals by February 28th to share their insights with the community.

2023 is expected to be a transformative year for platform engineering, building on the growth and popularity seen in 2022. The platform engineering community is growing, and comprehensive case studies of successful initiatives will become more prevalent, providing valuable insights for organizations looking to adopt platform engineering strategies. As the field continues to evolve, tooling and blueprint standards will emerge, helping developers navigate the complex landscape of cloud-native tools. DevOps Engineering skills will shift towards a focus on improving the developer experience through Internal Developer platforms, while infrastructure abstraction techniques like dynamic configuration management will become more prominent. The development of user-friendly service portals is also anticipated, addressing the complexity of existing solutions like Backstage. Overall, 2023 promises to be an exciting year for platform engineering, with a growing community and increasing demand for resources and expertise.