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On September 2, 2023, the platform Engineering ⌋-2023 platform Engineering Technology Conference in the era of ⌈ AIGC, jointly organized by the platform Engineering Technology Community and Diche Software Seal, ended successfully in Beijing. A total of 11 keynote speeches were set up at this Congress. The conference attracted nearly 300 platform engineering enthusiasts to attend, and more than 3000 viewers watched the conference on the live platform online.

Site of platform Engineering Technical Conference

Technical leaders from more than ten well-known enterprises, such as Seal, WWWX Group, Thoughtworks, DiDi, bilibili, Anyi Technology, Xiaomi Group, Boyun Technology, Hengdao Travel, Ant Group, etc., attended the conference and brought wonderful sharing around platform engineering, R & D efficiency, DevOps, AIGC and other topics, bringing diversified technical perspectives for platform engineering enthusiasts.

Qin Xiaokang, co-founder and CEO of Seal, a software co-organizer of the conference, said: "We hope to convey the spirit and culture of continuous innovation through the platform engineering technology conference, bring global technological vision to participants and share the beauty of scientific and technological innovation."

Open source + AI contributes to the continuous evolution of DevOps

Liang Sheng, co-founder of Seal and CTO, based on the experience of this year's Google Cloud Computing Conference (Google Cloud Next 23), put forward this view: AI technology is developing rapidly in an irreversible trend and has a major impact on the field of research and development. Therefore, in the brand-new technical context, DevOps engineers must actively use AI technology to reduce their workload.

However, AI is not 100% reliable, so it is necessary to provide Guardrail for AI through platform engineering in the field of DevOps, so as to improve the reliability of AI and further improve the efficiency of development.

Liang Sheng, co-founder and CTO of Seal

"Open source can bring real opportunities for AI and cloud computing because it is independent of national boundaries," Liang said. "Open source can help Chinese companies promote cloud computing and AI technology globally and become global technology leaders."

As a result, Seal has launched a new generation of open source application management platform Walrus, which extends cloud native capabilities and best practices to non-containerized environments, supports unified orchestration and deployment of any application form, reduces the complexity of using infrastructure, and provides easy-to-use and consistent application management and deployment experience for R & D and operation and maintenance teams, thereby building a seamless collaborative software delivery process.

Jiang Peng, co-founder and COO of Qiche software Seal

In the Demo session, the co-founder of Seal and COO Jiang Peng demonstrated the rapid deployment of Meta open source large models Llama 2 and Stable Diffusion on Walrus with the help of its service template features, and introduced Seal AI assistant Appilot (expected to open source in the middle and second half of this month, please look forward to it) to achieve resource scheduling, service query, application deployment and other tasks by inputting natural language and relying on the reasoning capabilities of AI model. To a great extent, it reduces the difficulty and complexity of operation and maintenance, and helps to improve the efficiency of application development.

Landing Exploration of platform Engineering

At this Congress, the enterprise technology leaders from Thoughtworks, Wanwu Shengsheng, bilibili, DiDi and Hengdao respectively shared their exploration and thinking on the landing of the platform project.

Jia Shengjian, head of the Technical Engineering Department of Wanwusheng Group

Wanwusheng Group has love recycling, camera hall, pat, AHS Device, love classification and other business sectors, the stable operation of these businesses can not be separated from the support of the underlying technology. As early as 11 years ago, everything began to practice on the cloud, and embraced Kubernetes in 2018.

With the addition of more and more engineers, engineering efficiency is facing challenges. According to statistics, there are about 100000 deployment changes every year, and more than 3000 cloud resources need to be managed, which is a very big challenge for engineers.

Therefore, Wanwusheng Group has built a unified internal engineering platform, and has also carried out innovation in organizational construction. Assist the landing of the platform project through the establishment of a technical committee and a technical engineering department.

Zhong Jianxin, head of Thoughtworks EMPC Software Engineering Business

As a global software and consulting company, Thoughtworks has accumulated in the field of platform engineering. Zhong Jianxin, head of Thoughtworks's software engineering business, mentioned that the important mission of platform engineering is to reduce the cognitive complexity of the development team.

In addition, Zhong Jianxin also pays attention to the realizability and the principle behind the introduction of AIGC capabilities in platform engineering. "only when complex engineering processes are well decomposed into structured tasks, and these tasks can be solved by existing tools, can we fully release the capabilities of AI to help enterprises solve problems."

Yuan Shuai, senior engineer of bilibili Infrastructure Department

Bilibili has become the mainstream video platform in China, where hundreds of millions of users watch and publish videos every day, so they have high requirements for business stability. Yuan Shuai, a senior engineer in bilibili's Infrastructure Department, introduced the exploration process of bilibili's platform project. He said: "under the wave of cloud native technology, the R & D team is bearing a heavier and heavier cognitive burden. Bilibili formed the concept of platform engineering."

He concluded: "in the process of advancing the platform project, the two most common mistakes we make are not paying attention to the interaction between teams and the lack of conceptual reinforcement of the platform leader." Therefore, the organization should create an atmosphere of mutual respect between operation and R & D, as well as get reliable feedback from platform users, and then constantly iterate the construction of the platform.

Kong Shuaikang, head of DiDi quality China and Taiwan

DiDi platform provides a good experience for drivers and passengers while meeting the travel needs of the broad masses, so the reliability and availability of back-end services are very important. Faced with the situation of fragmented DevOps process, uneven degree of automation, smoky evolution of the tool chain, and lack of objective data measurement, Didi reduced the project cost by unifying the front-end architecture and control plane, and introduced many sets of tools, such as demand delivery visualization, code access control mechanism, continuous integration automation, stability prevention and control, to solve the key pain points and improve quality and efficiency.

Zhang Lei, Senior Manager of Hengdao Travel Engineering Research and Development Department

The landing of the platform project is a very complex process, and one of its concrete realization is the engineering platform. Zhang Lei, senior manager of Hengdao Travel Engineering Research and Development Department, said in the sharing: "the platform project can further promote DevOps, which guides development practice in a theoretical form to solve complexity problems." In the future, the engineering platform should have the ability of service, product thinking, enhance the ease of use of the platform, to increase the value of the platform engineering. Finally, the enterprise changes the software development process.

Construction of platform engineering tool chain

The landing of the platform project is inseparable from the cooperative use of observable platform, CI / CD, configuration management and other tools.

Zhang Zhiyong, head of Research and Development efficiency of Xiaomi in China

At the conference, Zhang Zhiyong, head of research and development efficiency of Xiaomi in China, introduced the cloud native application observation platform Hera, which takes the application as the core and integrates index monitoring, link tracking, logging and alarm. Zhang Zhiyong mentioned that the construction of Hera is mainly focused on solving three major pain points-difficult to find problems, difficult to locate faults, and long repair cycle. Through the features such as setting alarm for SLA, linkage of metrics, tracing and logging provided by Hera, and flexible guarantee at run time, it can comprehensively improve the alarm accuracy and detect system anomalies in a timely manner.

Xu Pengfei, engineer of Ant Group

Kubernetes and Terraform are de facto standards in the open source world, and almost 80 per cent of enterprises apply them in infrastructure. However, Ant Group Engineering Xu Pengfei believes that there is still a lack of lightweight configuration combination and verification tools on the client side in the field of Kubernetes. Therefore, KCL came into being. Its most basic function is to allow users to abstract their own model using existing programming elements.

look into the future

The wonderful sharing brought by the technical leaders of major enterprises at the platform engineering technology conference fully shows that the current platform engineering field has gathered the innovative forces of various industries, and this is just the beginning. In the future, the platform engineering technology community will continue to unite with other enterprises to bring more platform engineering technology sharing and create a community atmosphere of equality, openness and mutual assistance.

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