December 2026
Intermediate
350 pages
1h 20m
English
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Brief Table of Contents (Not Yet Final)
Chapter 1. What Is Platform Engineering? (unavailable)
Chapter 2. Platform Engineering Inside Google (unavailable)
Chapter 3. Platform Engineering on Google Cloud (unavailable)
Chapter 4. A History of Platforms at Google (unavailable)
Chapter 5. The Monolithic Ideal: Inside Google3 (unavailable)
Chapter 6. The Composable Ecosystem: Google Cloud’s IDP (unavailable)
Chapter 7. Just Enough Platform Engineering (unavailable)
Chapter 8. Modular Abstractions (unavailable)
Chapter 9. Coupling (unavailable)
Chapter 10. Layers (unavailable)
Chapter 11. Quality Attributes (unavailable)
Chapter 12. Deep Dive: Efficiency
Chapter 13. Deep Dive: Security (unavailable)
Chapter 14. Deep Dive: Reliability (unavailable)
Chapter 15. Ecosystem Types (unavailable)
Chapter 16. Shared Fate and Responsibility
Chapter 17. AI with Platform Engineering (unavailable)
Chapter 18. Socio-Technical Platforms (unavailable)
Chapter 19. Education and Platform Engineering
Chapter 20. Shifting Down (unavailable)
Chapter 21. Why Developer Experience Matters (unavailable)
Chapter 22. Platform as a Product (unavailable)
Chapter 23. Platform ROI (unavailable)
Chapter 24. Golden Paths (unavailable)
Chapter 25. Techniques for Building on Cloud Platforms (unavailable)
Chapter 26. Antipatterns for Cloud Platforms (unavailable)
Chapter 27. Measuring Platform Success (unavailable)
Chapter 28. Platform Evolution (unavailable)
Chapter 29. Cloud Platform Migrations (unavailable)
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