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Rob Hirschfeld) (@zehicle) Founder & CEO @rackngo) talks about how Platform Engineering has evolved from DevOps and SRE and how it aligns to Cloud Platforms. ****
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**Topic 1 - **Welcome back to the show, it was great to see you in person at events recently. What have you been focusing on the last couple of years?
**Topic 2 - **There’s been a lot of discussion about Platform Engineering over the last 6+ months. You’ve been around this space for a while. We’re trying to understand if PE is different from DevOps or SRE or Cloud Platform in the past, or an evolution. Is PE just a common platform maintained with reusable tools, regardless of the infrastructure?
**Topic 3 - **I’ve heard people say that Cloud Platform and Platform Engineering are colleagues. where one owns/operates the platform, and the other is the “product manager” to the application teams. Is this realistic?
**Topic 4 - What does “good” look like for Platform Engineering? Is the goal a frictionless developer experience? Are developer consistency and efficiency valid goals? Are there KPIs or Metrics that “good” teams are striving towards? **
**Topic 5 - **Any interesting technologies that you’re seeing that make Platform Engineering easier, or more manageable?
**Topic 6 - **Any team dynamics that you’re seeing that make Platform Engineering easier, or more manageable?
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