Weekly Digest #73

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Learning By Lurking

Learn hidden details of projects by lurking, join channels or mailing lists liberally, and improve documentation.

How to run a Digital Platform at Scale

for a platform to be able to be manageable at scale, it needs to be opinionated

• Reduce boilerplate (not every service should be implementing their own logging or metric code)
• Provide tools to do it yourself — if every service team needs to raise a ticket to request a new build pipeline, the platform team will soon drown in support work. You Build it, You Run it is essential for a platform team to be able to deliver value without regressing into a traditional Ops role.
• Realise a platform is not a purely technical thing, but a collection of lots of people that are working together to create value. As such, facilitating easy communication should be high on the priority list of a digital platform. Personally, I find Slack a good tool, but at scale can often create a big channel sprawl, so it is crucial to provide help to find the right teams in the right channels.

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