The one with Gregor Hohpe

This time Plattformpoden delivers a special episode where Hans Kristian and Audun chats with Gregor Hohpe, the author of the new book Platform Strategy, as well as Enterprise Integration Patterns, The Architect Elevator, and Cloud Strategy. Gregor works for AWS, and has also worked for GovTech in Singapore, Google, Allianz and Thoughtworks.

You can read more on architectelevator.com and there is a coupon for Platform Strategy available at leanpub.com/platformstrategy/c/podden.

In this episode we discuss the many interesting aspects of having a clear platform strategy. Why do you need to build your own platform on top of a cloud platform, and the connection between platform and the application architecture. We also talk about the paradoxes of an internal developer platform, and how to make sure you solve user problems.