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Effective Platform Engineering
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Effective Platform Engineering

by Bryan Oliver, Nic Cheneweth, Ajay Chankramath, Sean Alvarez
October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 56m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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3 Measuring your way to platform engineering success

This chapter covers

  • Using data and measurements to determine success
  • Assessing engineering practice and quality over the entire end-to-end delivery lifecycle
  • Acting on platform product key performance indicators and developer experience effects
  • Planning for maturing capabilities

So far in our journey at Epetech, we have established a vision and strategy based on the business need for building an engineering platform, and we have put together the foundational engineering practices to create it. We have also looked at software-­defined platforms and the cloud-native approach, which simplifies the process. Now it’s time for the last critical element of our planning process: measuring what ...

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