Really fascinating. I think as more shops move to 'everything as code' and do more with less, we will see more efficiencies like the ones you mentioned being driven by a platform eng type of group. I'm curious though, what would the result be if you asked Platform Eng/DevX types how much of their effort/focus is in better security as well as I think there's a good overlap with everything else listed.
So security is definitely getting folded into the Platform Eng groups in some ways. Especially stuff like configurations and basic governance/policies that should be applied across all the dev tools for example. I don't forsee security teams/budget flowing into Platform Eng (you would have better insights here anyway), but I do see some base level of standard security being put in place by Platform teams given they're unifying the devex anyway of which policies & governance can be a part of.
From a conversation with a CIO at a hedge fund, it sounds like legacy firms are just learning about the power of "everything as code" like declarative devops (e.g. Terraform).
Remember that folks in this age group grew up when a) coding languages were convoluted and what "nerds" were into and b) WYSIWYG was the gold standard.
Now, as everything from data transformations to architectures have gotten more complex, and coding languages have gotten way simpler, it turns out that code is the easiest way to express that complexity.
People leading IT organizations are just starting to figure that out.
We can apply a lot of the insights here to the companies trying to disrupt CFO office workflows (Pigment, Runway Financial + many many others).
There are a lot of people/processes unique to each legacy company that, if moved to these new platforms, may be highly destabilizing. Excel is the COBOL of this space.
Crossing the chasm requires figuring out a solution to this.
Really fascinating. I think as more shops move to 'everything as code' and do more with less, we will see more efficiencies like the ones you mentioned being driven by a platform eng type of group. I'm curious though, what would the result be if you asked Platform Eng/DevX types how much of their effort/focus is in better security as well as I think there's a good overlap with everything else listed.
So security is definitely getting folded into the Platform Eng groups in some ways. Especially stuff like configurations and basic governance/policies that should be applied across all the dev tools for example. I don't forsee security teams/budget flowing into Platform Eng (you would have better insights here anyway), but I do see some base level of standard security being put in place by Platform teams given they're unifying the devex anyway of which policies & governance can be a part of.
From a conversation with a CIO at a hedge fund, it sounds like legacy firms are just learning about the power of "everything as code" like declarative devops (e.g. Terraform).
Remember that folks in this age group grew up when a) coding languages were convoluted and what "nerds" were into and b) WYSIWYG was the gold standard.
Now, as everything from data transformations to architectures have gotten more complex, and coding languages have gotten way simpler, it turns out that code is the easiest way to express that complexity.
People leading IT organizations are just starting to figure that out.
We can apply a lot of the insights here to the companies trying to disrupt CFO office workflows (Pigment, Runway Financial + many many others).
There are a lot of people/processes unique to each legacy company that, if moved to these new platforms, may be highly destabilizing. Excel is the COBOL of this space.
Crossing the chasm requires figuring out a solution to this.
Great writing!