Engineering Stable, Secure and Scalable Platforms: A Conversation with Matthew Liste

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of building and managing stable, secure, and scalable software platforms with insights from Matthew Liste.

In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Matthew Liste about building and managing software platforms. Platform services act as the basis for application development, and must always be stable, secure, and scalable. Scaling these systems is particularly difficult because unknown resource contention often causes them to break. Using customer journeys, one can pinpoint the places where the system is particularly at risk. Platform engineering also requires managing limited resources, and making difficult tradeoffs about which functionality should be implemented. The discussion also highlighted how artificial intelligence can increase the speed of development and thus increase risk, and how it interferes with the development of junior engineers who typically learn from basic tasks that now can be done by artificial intelligence. Nonetheless, platform engineering is still responsible for maintaining the stability, security, and scalability of the platform. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3PDl16i Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Stiefel

Guest: Matthew Liste

Topics covered

• platform engineering
• software development
• scalability
• security
• artificial intelligence
• resource management

Keywords

• platform services
• customer journeys
• resource contention
• AI in development
• junior engineers
• tradeoffs in functionality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: InfoQ

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