隔离其实很棒，听听 Kelsey Hightower 怎么说_AI阅读总结 — 包阅AI

Do you feel the rage crawling up you as you read these words: Silos are fantastic. “What is wrong with this guy?” I strongly believe this statement and think we have all been trapped in a lie. The meteoric growth in platform engineering over the last four years proves it.

If you don’t believe me, let me bring in some backup. Last month, as part of PlatformCon 2024, the world’s largest platform engineering event, I closed off Day 1 with an incredible conversation with Kelsey Hightower.

Let me share his words:

“I will be honest with you and I always get in trouble for this, but I actually think silos are fantastic. Silos are beautiful, especially if you put a well-made API in between them, and people are like ‘No, no, you are not telling the truth.’ But if you go to the airport, you don’t want the airline to shift left anything. I don’t want to fly the plane; I don’t want to clean the plane; I don’t want to fuel the plane; I don’t want to load luggage on the plane. I just want to use the app, express where I want to go. You tell me the cost, where I sit, and you do what you do. Airlines do what they do. There is a ton of infrastructure and physics involved in keeping the plane in the air and landing safely. I don’t want to do this. I am a passenger.”

There is a reason that platform engineering events like PlatformCon have seen meteoric growth from 7,000 attendees in 2022 to over 40,000 last month. The number of submitted talks grew from 150 to 800. The focus on shifting left and DevOps has disintegrated and in its place is a broader trend where companies are starting to wake up to the necessity of having robust, scalable platforms tailored to their specific needs.

This trend is perfectly captured in data from Humanitec’s DevOps Benchmarking report released last year, where 1,053 teams were measured on their DORA metrics and how far they followed best practices. They were then scored against these standards. Barely 25% of teams measured could be considered as high-performing or above.

These are all teams from organizations that have seemingly embraced DevOps and the idea of shifting left, and yet are struggling to deliver any of the promised results.

At the same time, 93.15% of these top-performing teams said that they were using an internal developer platform that a platform team had built for the rest of the engineering organization.

Why is that? Because “silos are fantastic.” Silos, when managed effectively, enhance specialization, accountability and efficiency within an organization.

“Most people have never met the person that works for your electricity company. You have never met the people that work at the lower levels of your cloud provider and many have probably never met their platform engineers. Why? Because they expose an API with a very clear and consistent contract. I’m not saying you shouldn’t collaborate, but you should only collaborate on things you do for the first time. That’s an important difference,” Hightower said.

Want to hear more of Kelsey’s and my thoughts on this? Watch our full conversation from last month’s event, before then diving into the other more than 80 hours of content from PlatformCon 2024.