Comments by "George Helyar" (@georgehelyar) on "Platform Engineering Is The New Kid On The Block" video.

  1. I think you can abstract a lot of it away with things like serverless functions, dapr, opentelemetry etc. Even docker works as an abstraction layer and isn't difficult at all, you can generally generate a dockerfile from your IDE. K8s can get a bit more complicated but there are managed k8s offerings in cloud that are usually good enough. The reputation of RDBMS to not scale well is over exaggerated too. You can get a lot of performance out of a good schema, and you can eventually scale horizontally with sharding.
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