As a platform engineer you are asked to help out make developers scale their application, how to make their work easier and more secure. However the specifics on how to make this icon’s background transparent or how to use a clean and sexy font is something that I have very little experience with.
The not-invented-here syndrome is something that is really big in the HPC landscape, since often solutions are not invented yet. And in alot of other software developing fields people tend to first build something before Googling it. In platform engineering however most of the solutions seem to already be there for the day to day task. So when I decided to make a blog I wanted off the shelf products, something easy to maintain, something fast and quick to integrate into existing technology.
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