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justify-center items-center"><h1 class="leading-16">Star History Open Source Best of 2022 | Platform Engineering</h1></div><div class="w-full mt-8 mb-2 max-w-6xl px-2 flex flex-row items-center justify-center text-sm text-gray-900 font-semibold trackingwide uppercase"><div class="flex space-x-1 text-gray-500"><span class="text-gray-900">Mila</span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><time dateTime="2023-01-19T09:50:06.000Z">Jan 19, 2023</time><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><span> 8 min read </span></div></div><div class="mt-8 w-full max-w-5xl prose prose-indigo prose-xl md:prose-2xl"><p>From <a href="https://platformengineering.org/blog/what-is-platform-engineering">What is platform engineering</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era</p> </blockquote> <p>Platform Engineering continues to rise in popularity in 2022 and is also featured in the <a href="https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/what-s-new-in-the-2022-gartner-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies">Gartner Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022</a> report.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/gartner-report.webp" alt="gartner-report"></p> <p>In this post, Star History picks out 10 open-source projects that served as the building blocks for Platform Engineering.</p> <h2>Backstage</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/backstage.webp" alt="backstage"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/backstage/backstage">Backstage</a>, a Software Catalog and Developer Platform created by Spotify, is a developer portal that unifies an organization's tools, services, applications, data and documentation into a single, consistent user interface, enabling developers to easily create, manage and explore software so that developers can focus on building applications rather than reinventing the button over and over again.</p> <p>Spotify developed Backstage to help engineering organizations to manage the complexity of growing systems, and it was open sourced in 2020 and became a CNCF incubation project in early 2022.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/backstage-dashboard.webp" alt="backstage-dashboard"></p> <p>In 2020, 280+ Spotify engineering teams were <a href="https://backstage.io/blog/2020/03/16/announcing-backstage">already using Backstage</a> to manage 2000+ backend services, 300+ websites, and 200+ mobile features.</p> <p><a href="https://backstage.io/blog/2022/12/19/backstage-wrapped-2022">Backstage Wrapped 2022</a> (is the title a homage to Spotify's annual Wrapped tho) mentioned that they gained 75 public users in the past year and now have 600+ users, proving that there really is a strong need for Backstage.</p> <h2>Elasticsearch</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/elastic.webp" alt="elastic"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch">Elasticsearch</a> is a real-time distributed storage, search, and analytics engine, the first version was released in 2010 and based on <a href="https://github.com/apache/lucene">Apache Lucene</a>. In 2022, Elastic announced <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-8-0-0">Elastic 8.0</a>, and it has gotten faster, simpler, and more scalable. They are also not slow in expanding the product: they are gradually enhancing the performance of <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/looking-back-at-2022-elastic-year-in-review">Elastic Cloud</a> and adding the hottest keyword in their Roadmap: <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/stateless-your-new-state-of-find-with-elasticsearch">Stateless Elasticsearch</a>, which makes the service stateless and enables the elastic cloud platform.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/elastic-architecture.webp" alt="elastic-architecture"></p> <p>But of course, we can't forget the <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-aws">controversy</a> between Elastic and AWS: AWS forked and commercialized (someone else's) OS project, while Elastic changed their open-source protocol to restrict users from using the client. Although they eventually <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-and-amazon-reach-agreement-on-trademark-infringement-lawsuit">reached a settlement</a>, it begs the question: in the world of open-source, are the users the ones paying the price (literally AND figuratively)?</p> <h2>GitLab</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/gitlab.webp" alt="gitlab"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq">GitLab</a> was born as a code hosting project to facilitate team development and collaboration, but has now expanded into a DevSecOps Platform. DevSecOps is DevOps with Security on top: normally, security awaits at the end of the development lifecycle, but when code is returned to developers for fixing, it adds extra cost. DevSecOps uses the shift-left approach to embrace security early in the DevOps lifecycle, by using tools to protect and monitor live applications, infusing security practices into every phase of software development till deployment.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/gitlab-devsecops.webp" alt="gitlab-devsecops"></p> <p>In addition, GitLab is well known for their public <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/">Handbook</a> (think of it as their employee handbook). This 2,000+ page-properly-categorized document gives a pretty specific and informative glimpse into the processes/collaboration/use of tools and even the culture of GitLab - this is extra handy for a startup that is just starting out and looking to establish SOPs and processes.</p> <h2>Grafana</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/grafana.webp" alt="grafana"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/grafana/grafana">Grafana</a> is an observability and data visualization platform. It simplifies the complexity of monitoring: provide the data and Grafana will take care of the visualization. It was first released in 2014 by Torkel Ödegaard (Grafana Labs Co-Founder) as an offshoot project by Orbitz. We all know the story later: Grafana Labs went on a roll in 2019 after raising a $24M Series A round, most recently a $240M Series D in April, 2022.</p> <p>At ObservabilityCON 2022, Grafana Labs announced two new projects: <a href="https://grafana.com/blog/2022/11/02/announcing-grafana-phlare-oss-continuous-profiling-database/">Phlare</a>, a database for continuous profiling, and <a href="https://grafana.com/blog/2022/11/02/introducing-grafana-faro-oss-application-observability/">Faro</a>, a front-end application observability service. It is worth noting that Phlare was inspired by a Hackathon project that demonstrated the value of continuous analytics when connected to metrics, logs, and traces, and they decided to create a database for continuous analytics telemetry.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/grafana-workflow.webp" alt="grafana-workflow"></p> <h2>Kong</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/kong.webp" alt="kong"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/Kong/kong">Kong</a> is a cloud-native API gateway that allows users to analyze traffic and manage developers, consumers, partners, customers, etc. associated with different APIs. Since 2010, Kong has raised $169.1M in 6 rounds of funding. In 2022, they released <a href="https://konghq.com/blog/kong-gateway-3-0">Kong Gateway 3.0</a> and launched a SaaS API platform in the AWS Marketplace: <a href="https://konghq.com/products/cloud-api-platform">Kong Konnect</a>.</p> <p>Kong started out as an API aggregation platform/marketplace, the company and product name back then was Mashape. Kong's API gateway project was incubated later and soon took over to become the core business, while Mashape’s original aggregation platform/marketplace businesses were sold to <a href="https://rapidapi.com/">RapidAPI</a>. It is a classic open-source pivoting in recent years.</p> <h2>Kubernetes</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/kubernetes.webp" alt="kubernetes"></p> <p>We know, we know, but we can’t leave <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes">Kubernetes</a> out in this category. It is one of the most popular container orchestration systems for automating software deployment, scaling and management. Originally designed by Google, it is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). In fact, CNCF started with Kubernetes.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/kubernetes-terraform.webp" alt="kubernetes-terraform"></p> <p>Kubernetes has a widespread ecosystem and is the platform within platform engineering. Kubernetes is the primary runtime platform for all of the projects listed in this post except Terraform. Terraform also supports interaction with Kubernetes through the <a href="https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/kubernetes/latest/docs">Terraform Kubernetes Provider</a>, which is maintained by HashiCorp, and listed together with the three major cloud vendors.</p> <p>Trivia #1: Kubernetes’ name comes from the ancient Greek word for "helmsman", which explains its logo☸️. It also has a connection with the concept of container, and of course may be more or less aimed at the competitor Docker Swarm back then.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/kubernetes-container.webp" alt="kubernetes-container"></p> <p>Trivia #2: K8s is the middle 8 letters of Kubernetes "ubernete" replaced by the number "8", the same can be internationalizaiton into i18n.</p> <p>To learn more about Kubernetes’ story, check out <a href="https://youtu.be/BE77h7dmoQU">this documentary</a> by Honeypot!</p> <h2>Prometheus</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/prometheus.webp" alt="prometheus"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus">Prometheus</a> is a time-series database based system monitoring and alerting system. 2022 was its 10th birthday and it’s also a member of CNCF. It was open-sourced by SoundCloud back in 2012, but after watching <a href="https://promcon.io/2016-berlin/talks/the-history-of-prometheus-at-soundcloud/">The History of Prometheus at SoundCloud</a>, it seems one of their engineers wrote a monitoring tool that was used at SoundCloud, which was deemed quite handy. It was then open-sourced by the company, and the community grew along the way.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/prometheus-soundcloud.webp" alt="prometheus-soundcloud"></p> <p>“Prometheus” is one of the gods of the Titans in ancient Greek mythology, and the name means "foresight", which is probably the source of the project name. Prometheus is also the second CNCF project after Kubernetes, which seems to be quite foresighted. There is also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT4fJNbfe14">a documentary</a> by Honeypot about Prometheus.</p> <h2>Sourcegraph</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/sourcegraph.webp" alt="sourcegraph"></p> <p><a href="https://sourcegraph.com/search">Sourcegraph’s home page</a> is a code search page, not the usual product introduction page, which is probably the smartest product demo, no?</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/sourcegraph-search.webp" alt="sourcegraph-search"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph">Sourcegraph</a> is a code search platform. Imagine a developer fixing a bug, but needs to jump to another part of the code, so he has to open another file in his IDE, which breaks his current working state. Sourcegraph's web-based code search interface allows developers to keep their current state while exploring other parts of the code, which greatly reduces the cost of switching. Advanced features such as code navigation, code insight help developers onboard new projects faster, understand their projects better (how code changes over time and its current state), as well as the ability to apply code changes in different repositories like Batch Changes.</p> <p>In addition, the <a href="https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast">Sourcegraph Podcast</a>, featuring co-founder/CTO Beyang and authors/engineers/DevRel folks of other startups, is an insightful podcast about projects' origin stories, these folks' worldviews, experiences, favourite tools and techs, and more.</p> <h2>Temporal</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/temporal.webp" alt="temporal"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/temporalio/temporal">Temporal</a> is another rising star and serves as a core piece in platform engineering. It is a microservice task scheduling execution platform that executes application logic units, workflows in a resilient way, automatically handles intermittent failures, and retries failed operations. Although the first release only came in 2020.2, the founders built Cadence workflow (uber/cadence) back in Uber to solve Uber's workflow/orchestration problems, and Temporal is a commercialized fork version of Cadence.</p> <p>Sidenote: Temporal annual conference Relay merch looks so damn good 😍.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/temporal-swag.webp" alt="temporal-swag"></p> <h2>Terraform</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/terraform.webp" alt="terraform"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform">Terraform</a> is a tool for managing infrastructure (infrastructure-as-code) under HashiCorp. Terraform v0.1 was released back in 2014, but only became the industry leader 8 years later, revolutionizing the entire workflow, and was almost shut down in the early days because of the slow adoption.</p> <p>Terraform Provider started out as a way to smooth out the differences in managing the services of several large public cloud vendors, and has now become the de facto standard for managing all cloud/SaaS resources.</p> <h2>Platform Engineering is the Future</h2> <p>Well, this is it for platform engineering projects, from big names to the starlets, let's review them again:</p> <ul> <li><strong>The underlying runtime platform</strong> - Kubernetes</li> <li><strong>The service catalog and developer portal</strong> - Backstage</li> <li><strong>API gateway</strong> - Kong</li> <li><strong>Universal Search</strong> - Elasticsearch</li> <li><strong>Code hosting, CI/CD, and DevSecOps</strong> - GitLab</li> <li><strong>Code Search</strong> - Sourcegraph</li> <li><strong>Monitoring/Alerting</strong> - Prometheus</li> <li><strong>Dashboard</strong> - Grafana</li> <li><strong>Task Scheduling and Execution</strong> - Temporal</li> <li><strong>Codify Infrastructure and Cloud Resources</strong> - Terraform</li> </ul> <p>The above projects will constitute a pretty solid platform engineering backbone, while there are a couple of other core components worth mentioning:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Security and Access Control</strong> (network access, software supply chain, intrusion detection, Audit Log) - <a href="https://snyk.io/">Snyk</a>, <a href="https://tailscale.com/">tailscale</a>, <a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/products/vault">Vault</a>, <a href="https://www.boundaryproject.io/">Boundary</a>.</li> <li><strong>Resource Allocation</strong> (auto-scaling, scheduling, FinOps) - <a href="http://opencost.io/">OpenCost</a>.</li> <li><strong>Configuration</strong> (application configurations, feature flags) - <a 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In this post, Star History picks out 10 open-source projects in the category Platform Engineering.","readingTime":8},"parsedBlogHTML":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ca href=\"https://platformengineering.org/blog/what-is-platform-engineering\"\u003eWhat is platform engineering\u003c/a\u003e:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlatform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlatform Engineering continues to rise in popularity in 2022 and is also featured in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/what-s-new-in-the-2022-gartner-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies\"\u003eGartner Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022\u003c/a\u003e report.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/gartner-report.webp\" alt=\"gartner-report\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this post, Star History picks out 10 open-source projects that served as the building blocks for Platform Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBackstage\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/backstage.webp\" alt=\"backstage\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/backstage/backstage\"\u003eBackstage\u003c/a\u003e, a Software Catalog and Developer Platform created by Spotify, is a developer portal that unifies an organization\u0026#39;s tools, services, applications, data and documentation into a single, consistent user interface, enabling developers to easily create, manage and explore software so that developers can focus on building applications rather than reinventing the button over and over again.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpotify developed Backstage to help engineering organizations to manage the complexity of growing systems, and it was open sourced in 2020 and became a CNCF incubation project in early 2022.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/backstage-dashboard.webp\" alt=\"backstage-dashboard\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2020, 280+ Spotify engineering teams were \u003ca href=\"https://backstage.io/blog/2020/03/16/announcing-backstage\"\u003ealready using Backstage\u003c/a\u003e to manage 2000+ backend services, 300+ websites, and 200+ mobile features.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://backstage.io/blog/2022/12/19/backstage-wrapped-2022\"\u003eBackstage Wrapped 2022\u003c/a\u003e (is the title a homage to Spotify\u0026#39;s annual Wrapped tho) mentioned that they gained 75 public users in the past year and now have 600+ users, proving that there really is a strong need for Backstage.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eElasticsearch\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/elastic.webp\" alt=\"elastic\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch\"\u003eElasticsearch\u003c/a\u003e is a real-time distributed storage, search, and analytics engine, the first version was released in 2010 and based on \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/apache/lucene\"\u003eApache Lucene\u003c/a\u003e. In 2022, Elastic announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-8-0-0\"\u003eElastic 8.0\u003c/a\u003e, and it has gotten faster, simpler, and more scalable. They are also not slow in expanding the product: they are gradually enhancing the performance of \u003ca href=\"https://www.elastic.co/blog/looking-back-at-2022-elastic-year-in-review\"\u003eElastic Cloud\u003c/a\u003e and adding the hottest keyword in their Roadmap: \u003ca href=\"https://www.elastic.co/blog/stateless-your-new-state-of-find-with-elasticsearch\"\u003eStateless Elasticsearch\u003c/a\u003e, which makes the service stateless and enables the elastic cloud platform.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/elastic-architecture.webp\" alt=\"elastic-architecture\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut of course, we can\u0026#39;t forget the \u003ca href=\"https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-aws\"\u003econtroversy\u003c/a\u003e between Elastic and AWS: AWS forked and commercialized (someone else\u0026#39;s) OS project, while Elastic changed their open-source protocol to restrict users from using the client. Although they eventually \u003ca href=\"https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-and-amazon-reach-agreement-on-trademark-infringement-lawsuit\"\u003ereached a settlement\u003c/a\u003e, it begs the question: in the world of open-source, are the users the ones paying the price (literally AND figuratively)?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eGitLab\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/gitlab.webp\" alt=\"gitlab\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq\"\u003eGitLab\u003c/a\u003e was born as a code hosting project to facilitate team development and collaboration, but has now expanded into a DevSecOps Platform. DevSecOps is DevOps with Security on top: normally, security awaits at the end of the development lifecycle, but when code is returned to developers for fixing, it adds extra cost. DevSecOps uses the shift-left approach to embrace security early in the DevOps lifecycle, by using tools to protect and monitor live applications, infusing security practices into every phase of software development till deployment.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/gitlab-devsecops.webp\" alt=\"gitlab-devsecops\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition, GitLab is well known for their public \u003ca href=\"https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/\"\u003eHandbook\u003c/a\u003e (think of it as their employee handbook). This 2,000+ page-properly-categorized document gives a pretty specific and informative glimpse into the processes/collaboration/use of tools and even the culture of GitLab - this is extra handy for a startup that is just starting out and looking to establish SOPs and processes.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eGrafana\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/grafana.webp\" alt=\"grafana\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/grafana/grafana\"\u003eGrafana\u003c/a\u003e is an observability and data visualization platform. It simplifies the complexity of monitoring: provide the data and Grafana will take care of the visualization. It was first released in 2014 by Torkel Ödegaard (Grafana Labs Co-Founder) as an offshoot project by Orbitz. We all know the story later: Grafana Labs went on a roll in 2019 after raising a $24M Series A round, most recently a $240M Series D in April, 2022.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt ObservabilityCON 2022, Grafana Labs announced two new projects: \u003ca href=\"https://grafana.com/blog/2022/11/02/announcing-grafana-phlare-oss-continuous-profiling-database/\"\u003ePhlare\u003c/a\u003e, a database for continuous profiling, and \u003ca href=\"https://grafana.com/blog/2022/11/02/introducing-grafana-faro-oss-application-observability/\"\u003eFaro\u003c/a\u003e, a front-end application observability service. It is worth noting that Phlare was inspired by a Hackathon project that demonstrated the value of continuous analytics when connected to metrics, logs, and traces, and they decided to create a database for continuous analytics telemetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/grafana-workflow.webp\" alt=\"grafana-workflow\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eKong\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/kong.webp\" alt=\"kong\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/Kong/kong\"\u003eKong\u003c/a\u003e is a cloud-native API gateway that allows users to analyze traffic and manage developers, consumers, partners, customers, etc. associated with different APIs. Since 2010, Kong has raised $169.1M in 6 rounds of funding. In 2022, they released \u003ca href=\"https://konghq.com/blog/kong-gateway-3-0\"\u003eKong Gateway 3.0\u003c/a\u003e and launched a SaaS API platform in the AWS Marketplace: \u003ca href=\"https://konghq.com/products/cloud-api-platform\"\u003eKong Konnect\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKong started out as an API aggregation platform/marketplace, the company and product name back then was Mashape. Kong\u0026#39;s API gateway project was incubated later and soon took over to become the core business, while Mashape’s original aggregation platform/marketplace businesses were sold to \u003ca href=\"https://rapidapi.com/\"\u003eRapidAPI\u003c/a\u003e. It is a classic open-source pivoting in recent years.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eKubernetes\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/kubernetes.webp\" alt=\"kubernetes\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe know, we know, but we can’t leave \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes\"\u003eKubernetes\u003c/a\u003e out in this category. It is one of the most popular container orchestration systems for automating software deployment, scaling and management. Originally designed by Google, it is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). In fact, CNCF started with Kubernetes.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/kubernetes-terraform.webp\" alt=\"kubernetes-terraform\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKubernetes has a widespread ecosystem and is the platform within platform engineering. Kubernetes is the primary runtime platform for all of the projects listed in this post except Terraform. Terraform also supports interaction with Kubernetes through the \u003ca href=\"https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/kubernetes/latest/docs\"\u003eTerraform Kubernetes Provider\u003c/a\u003e, which is maintained by HashiCorp, and listed together with the three major cloud vendors.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrivia #1: Kubernetes’ name comes from the ancient Greek word for \u0026quot;helmsman\u0026quot;, which explains its logo☸️. It also has a connection with the concept of container, and of course may be more or less aimed at the competitor Docker Swarm back then.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/kubernetes-container.webp\" alt=\"kubernetes-container\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrivia #2: K8s is the middle 8 letters of Kubernetes \u0026quot;ubernete\u0026quot; replaced by the number \u0026quot;8\u0026quot;, the same can be internationalizaiton into i18n.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo learn more about Kubernetes’ story, check out \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/BE77h7dmoQU\"\u003ethis documentary\u003c/a\u003e by Honeypot!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePrometheus\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/prometheus.webp\" alt=\"prometheus\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus\"\u003ePrometheus\u003c/a\u003e is a time-series database based system monitoring and alerting system. 2022 was its 10th birthday and it’s also a member of CNCF. It was open-sourced by SoundCloud back in 2012, but after watching \u003ca href=\"https://promcon.io/2016-berlin/talks/the-history-of-prometheus-at-soundcloud/\"\u003eThe History of Prometheus at SoundCloud\u003c/a\u003e, it seems one of their engineers wrote a monitoring tool that was used at SoundCloud, which was deemed quite handy. It was then open-sourced by the company, and the community grew along the way.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/prometheus-soundcloud.webp\" alt=\"prometheus-soundcloud\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Prometheus” is one of the gods of the Titans in ancient Greek mythology, and the name means \u0026quot;foresight\u0026quot;, which is probably the source of the project name. Prometheus is also the second CNCF project after Kubernetes, which seems to be quite foresighted. There is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT4fJNbfe14\"\u003ea documentary\u003c/a\u003e by Honeypot about Prometheus.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSourcegraph\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/sourcegraph.webp\" alt=\"sourcegraph\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://sourcegraph.com/search\"\u003eSourcegraph’s home page\u003c/a\u003e is a code search page, not the usual product introduction page, which is probably the smartest product demo, no?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/sourcegraph-search.webp\" alt=\"sourcegraph-search\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph\"\u003eSourcegraph\u003c/a\u003e is a code search platform. Imagine a developer fixing a bug, but needs to jump to another part of the code, so he has to open another file in his IDE, which breaks his current working state. Sourcegraph\u0026#39;s web-based code search interface allows developers to keep their current state while exploring other parts of the code, which greatly reduces the cost of switching. Advanced features such as code navigation, code insight help developers onboard new projects faster, understand their projects better (how code changes over time and its current state), as well as the ability to apply code changes in different repositories like Batch Changes.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition, the \u003ca href=\"https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast\"\u003eSourcegraph Podcast\u003c/a\u003e, featuring co-founder/CTO Beyang and authors/engineers/DevRel folks of other startups, is an insightful podcast about projects\u0026#39; origin stories, these folks\u0026#39; worldviews, experiences, favourite tools and techs, and more.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTemporal\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/temporal.webp\" alt=\"temporal\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal\"\u003eTemporal\u003c/a\u003e is another rising star and serves as a core piece in platform engineering. It is a microservice task scheduling execution platform that executes application logic units, workflows in a resilient way, automatically handles intermittent failures, and retries failed operations. Although the first release only came in 2020.2, the founders built Cadence workflow (uber/cadence) back in Uber to solve Uber\u0026#39;s workflow/orchestration problems, and Temporal is a commercialized fork version of Cadence.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSidenote: Temporal annual conference Relay merch looks so damn good 😍.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/temporal-swag.webp\" alt=\"temporal-swag\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTerraform\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/yearly-pick-platform-engineering-2022/terraform.webp\" alt=\"terraform\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform\"\u003eTerraform\u003c/a\u003e is a tool for managing infrastructure (infrastructure-as-code) under HashiCorp. Terraform v0.1 was released back in 2014, but only became the industry leader 8 years later, revolutionizing the entire workflow, and was almost shut down in the early days because of the slow adoption.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTerraform Provider started out as a way to smooth out the differences in managing the services of several large public cloud vendors, and has now become the de facto standard for managing all cloud/SaaS resources.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePlatform Engineering is the Future\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWell, this is it for platform engineering projects, from big names to the starlets, let\u0026#39;s review them again:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe underlying runtime platform\u003c/strong\u003e - Kubernetes\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe service catalog and developer portal\u003c/strong\u003e - Backstage\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAPI gateway\u003c/strong\u003e - Kong\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUniversal Search\u003c/strong\u003e - Elasticsearch\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode hosting, CI/CD, and DevSecOps\u003c/strong\u003e - GitLab\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode Search\u003c/strong\u003e - Sourcegraph\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMonitoring/Alerting\u003c/strong\u003e - Prometheus\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDashboard\u003c/strong\u003e - Grafana\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTask Scheduling and Execution\u003c/strong\u003e - Temporal\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCodify Infrastructure and Cloud Resources\u003c/strong\u003e - Terraform\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe above projects will constitute a pretty solid platform engineering backbone, while there are a couple of other core components worth mentioning:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecurity and Access Control\u003c/strong\u003e (network access, software supply chain, intrusion detection, Audit Log) - \u003ca href=\"https://snyk.io/\"\u003eSnyk\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://tailscale.com/\"\u003etailscale\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hashicorp.com/products/vault\"\u003eVault\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://www.boundaryproject.io/\"\u003eBoundary\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eResource Allocation\u003c/strong\u003e (auto-scaling, scheduling, FinOps) - \u003ca href=\"http://opencost.io/\"\u003eOpenCost\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConfiguration\u003c/strong\u003e (application configurations, feature flags) - \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/apolloconfig/apollo\"\u003eApollo\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://flagsmith.com/\"\u003eFlagsmith\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDatabase Development\u003c/strong\u003e (database change, query, admin, security) - \u003ca href=\"https://bytebase.com\"\u003eBytebase\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is part of Star History Open Source 2022 series, you can continue with:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is part of Star History Open Source 2022 series, you can continue with:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/blog/star-history-yearly-pick-2022-frontend\"\u003eOpen Source Best of 2022 - Front-end\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/blog/star-history-yearly-pick-2022-data-infra-devtools\"\u003eOpen Source Best of 2022 - Data, Infra \u0026amp; DevTools\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/blog/star-history-open-source-2022-open-source-alternatives\"\u003eOpen Source Best of 2022 - Open-Source Alternatives\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n"},"__N_SSG":true},"page":"/blog/[slug]","query":{"slug":"star-history-open-source-2022-platform-engineering"},"buildId":"xKX4ZiOi_N7h3OBOEsSZu","isFallback":false,"gsp":true,"scriptLoader":[]}</script></body></html>