The DevOps Infinity Loop doesn’t serve platform engineering well enough: IaC isn’t a firstclass citizen and it doesn’t aid reasoning about DevEx sufficiently. The Ferris Wheel offers ways to understand development in singleplayer and multiplayer modes, balances attention across application and infrastructure code, emphasizes the pace layers of the SDLC, and nuances Security and Observability.

Models provide cognitive leverage for assessing the state of the world and for making predictions and plans. The platform engineering Ferris Wheel improves upon previous models in ways that help focus platform product road mapping to maximize ROI.

The Wheel presents three singleplayer create/test loops (code/unit, integrate/integration, build/e2e) and three multiplayer run/monitor loops (deploy/process monitor, release/differential monitor, operate/performance), with corresponding supplychain security concerns. The varying balance of abstraction for application and infrastructure in each loop is emphasized.

IDPs support many Jobs To Be Done.
Developers switch between procode and nocode depending on context.
A “whole product” approach makes delivering value incrementally much easier.

Speaker: David Schweizer
Group Product Manager

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