This paper intends to support enterprise leaders, enterprise architects and platform team leaders to advocate for, investigate and plan internal platforms for cloud computing. We believe platforms significantly impact enterprises' actual value streams, but only indirectly, so leadership consensus and support is vital to the long-term sustainability and success of platform teams. In this paper we'll enable that support by discussing what the value of platforms is, how to measure it, and how to implement platform teams that maximize it.
CNCF Platform Working Group Launched Platform Engineering Maturity Model
In April 2023, in time for Kubecon Amsterdam, CNCF Platforms WG (working group) released a Platforms Definition white paper, defining…
Adopt and scale Team Topologies: platform-as-a-product, templates, more. — Team Topologies - Organizing for fast flow of value
Accelerate value with Team Topologies: measure cognitive load, define team boundaries, apply inverse Conway, readiness assessments, and more for fast delivery.
A guide to platform engineering | Google Cloud Blog
At PlatformCon 2025, we talked about “shift down” — one of the guiding principles behind Google’s approach to platform engineering.
Introducing Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform | Google Cloud Blog
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is our new platform to build, scale, govern, and optimize agents. It integrates the model selection, model building, and agent building capabilities of Vertex AI, with new features for agent integration, DevOps, and orchestration, and security.
The next 10 years for cloud computing
The landscape of cloud computing is changing significantly as enterprises question the value of public cloud solutions. This shift marks a departure from previous years when the public cloud was widely regarded as the panacea for all technology and infrastructure needs. Companies are now reconsidering the efficacy, cost efficiency, and strategic alignment of public cloud computing in their IT frameworks. We’ve also been discussing this topic here in recent years.
Platform Studies
The Platform Studies book series has been established to promote the investigation of underlying computing systems and how they enable, constrain, shape and support the creative work that is done on them. The series investigates the foundations of digital media — the computing systems, both hardware and software, that developers and users depend upon for artistic, literary, and gaming development. Books in the series will certainly vary in their approaches, but they will all also share certain features: A focus on a single platform or a closely related family of platforms; Technical rigor and in-depth investigation of how computing technologies work; An awareness of and discussion of how computing platforms exist in a context of culture and society, being developed based on cultural concepts and then contributing to culture in a variety of ways — for instance, by affecting how people perceive computing.
Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform
The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
CNCF is the vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, dedicated to making cloud native ubiquitous.
Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix
After spending over a decade in engineering leadership roles at some of the world’s most chaotic innovation factories—Google, Facebook, and Netflix—I’ve learned one universal truth: scaling e…
OC Inc. Strategy 2023-2024: Mature Platform + Connected Teams = Strong Foundations
The next two years are about maturing the OC Inc. platform and connecting our teams so that we can scale our impact in the years to come.
Why cloud native belongs at the heart of agentic AI: Lessons from building a multi-agent security platform on Kubernetes
In March, I gave a talk at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam. After the session, the same questions kept coming up on the CNCF Slack and in person: why build agentic AI on cloud native…
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform lets you build, deploy, and scale applications, websites, and services on the same infrastructure as Google.
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform lets you build, deploy, and scale applications, websites, and services on the same infrastructure as Google.
Commons Computer
A modern team knowledge base for your internal documentation, product specs, support answers, meeting notes, onboarding, & more…