Episode Six - The Hard Thing About Hard Things and the State of DevOps Report, 2021 - a podcast by Ian Smith & Ash Winter

Links

• The Mists Of Time clip from Episode 5


• Ian’s Other Podcast


• Ash’s Twitter Nemesis - @ashwinter


• Ben Horowitz, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz


• Ben's book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things


• Ian’s book highlights from The Hard Thing About Hard Things


• The Guardian: Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments, who took a $1m salary cut to pay his workers a minimum wave of $70k


• Manager Tools podcast


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  State of DevOps Report 2021 (requires a biznass email)


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  Martin Fowler* describes what he means by a platform, which has a very strong alignment with what the State of DevOps Report means by a platform
  


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  Excellent talk by Matthew Skelton and Jamie Dobson on treating your platform as a product.


• Team Topologies on what is a thinnest viable platform


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  Quote from Bill Gates about what is and isn't a platform (search within the page for "Neither of them are platforms")


• How to scale Brent from the Phoenix Project

* – Actually, although it's on Martin Fowler's blog, it was a post from Evan Bottcher. Ian's mistake - sorry Evan!

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