December 4, 2023

Systems Design in Platform Engineering

↯ One idea to spark your curiosity

Since platform engineering teams need systems design expertise that is likely outside of the scope of the typical DevOps role, we need the software development function to intervene with distributed systems programmers and many years of investment. The majority of organizations trying to build in-house platforms don’t have or don’t want to make this type of investment, as it may not be their core business. Megascale tech companies like Facebook, Uber, Netflix, etc. will likely build an in-house solution, as they have the talent and scale, but for the masses, it is likely that the solution will be an off-the-shelf product from an ISV.

Infrastructure-as-code Pitfalls in Platform Engineering, DuploCloud

Funding

↯ Developer-friendly companies that announced new funding rounds

Expanso, a unified platform for running jobs across different regions, clouds, and edge devices, raised $7.5m in Seed funding.

Coinchange, an API for integrating access to high yield DeFi products into applications, raised $10m in funding.

Cloudsmith, a cloud-native universal artifact management platform for securely developing and distributing software, raised $11m in Series A2 funding.

DuploCloud, a DevOps automation platform for translating high-level application specifications into fully managed cloud configurations, raised $32m in Series B funding.

Second Front Systems, a software delivery platform for companies who want to deploy commercial SaaS applications on Department of Defense (DoD) networks, raised $40m in Series B funding.

Together AI, a cloud platform for building and running generative AI models, raised $102.5m in Series A funding.

Wormhole, a cross-chain development platform that enables communication between blockchains, raised $225m in funding.