# real kinetic Published articles for real kinetic. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Understanding Konfig's Opinionation DevFeed: [Understanding Konfig's Opinionation]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2024-06-11T19:59:57Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Brave New Geek]() Topics: [Google Cloud Platform (GCP)](), [GitLab](), [Deployment](), [Development](), [Architecture & Design]() Tags: [architecture](), [deployment](), [deployment-driven-development](), [development](), [gcp](), [gitlab](), [governance](), [idp](), [internal-developer-platform](), [konfigurate](), [platform-engineering](), [real-kinetic](), [self-service]() ### AI overview This opinion article explains how Konfig, an opinionated enterprise cloud platform, aims to reduce cloud-platform ownership costs and shorten software delivery timelines. It describes built-in security, governance, organizational standards, developer self-service, and Deployment-Driven Development, with a focus on Google Cloud Platform and GitLab. ### Source excerpt In my last post, I talked about the benefits of an opinionated platform. An opinionated platform allows your engineers to focus on things that matter to your business, such as shipping and improving customer-facing products and services. This is in contrast to engineers spending substantial time on non-differentiating work like platform infrastructure. Rather than infrastructure architecture, developers can focus more on the product architecture. Konfig is an opinionated platform which provides two key value drivers: 1) reducing the investment and total cost of ownership needed to have an enterprise cloud platform and 2) minimizing the time to deliver new software products. ## No assembly required: the benefits of an opinionated platform DevFeed: [No assembly required: the benefits of an opinionated platform]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2024-05-23T21:28:49Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Brave New Geek]() Topics: [Cloud](), [Amazon Web Services]() Tags: [aws](), [cloud](), [consulting](), [gcp](), [gitlab](), [idp](), [internal-developer-platform](), [konfigurate](), [opinion](), [platform](), [platform-engineering](), [real-kinetic](), [recommendations]() ### AI overview The article argues that clients often want concrete expert recommendations rather than a neutral list of options. It applies this idea to operationalizing cloud platforms, describing AWS and GCP as collections of possibilities that require many decisions. ### Source excerpt When you talk to a doctor about a medical issue they will often present you with all of the options but shy away from providing an unambiguous recommendation. When you talk to a lawyer about a legal matter they frequently do the same. While it's important to understand your options and their trade-offs or associated risks, when you go to these specialists you are likely seeking the counsel of an experienced and knowledgeable expert in their field who can help you make an informed decision. What most people are probably looking for is the answer to "what would you, someone who knows a lot about this stuff, do if you were in this situation?" After all, many of us are probably capable of finding the options ourselves, but the difficult part is determining what the right course of action is for a particular situation. ## How Konfig provides an enterprise platform with GitLab and Google Cloud DevFeed: [How Konfig provides an enterprise platform with GitLab and Google Cloud]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Authentication; Authorization Published: 2024-04-29T20:24:31Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Brave New Geek]() Topics: [GitLab](), [Google Cloud Platform (GCP)](), [Cloud](), [migration](), [Architecture & Design]() Tags: [architectures](), [cloud](), [gcp](), [gitlab](), [google-cloud](), [idp](), [internal-developer-platform](), [konfigurate](), [migration](), [modernization](), [platform-engineering](), [real-kinetic]() ### AI overview The article introduces Konfig, an enterprise integration of GitLab and Google Cloud designed to provide more opinionated guidance for security and governance, maintainability, and speed to production during cloud migration and modernization efforts. ### Source excerpt In a previous post, I explained the fundamental competing priorities that companies have when building software: security and governance, maintainability, and speed to production. These three concerns are all in constant tension with each other. For companies either migrating to the cloud or beginning a modernization effort, addressing them can be a major challenge. When you're unfamiliar with the cloud, building systems that are both secure and maintainable is difficult because you're not in a position to make decisions that have long-lasting and significant impact--you just don't know what you don't know. One small misstep can result in a major security incident. A bad decision can take years to manifest a problem. As a result, these migration and modernization efforts often stall out as analysis paralysis takes hold. ## Introducing Konfig: GitLab and Google Cloud preconfigured for startups and enterprises DevFeed: [Introducing Konfig: GitLab and Google Cloud preconfigured for startups and enterprises]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2024-04-04T20:51:23Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Brave New Geek]() Topics: [GitLab](), [Google Cloud Platform (GCP)](), [internal developer platform](), [Terraform](), [migration](), [Development]() Tags: [cloud-migration](), [developer-platform](), [enterprise](), [gcp](), [gitlab](), [google-cloud](), [idp](), [internal-developer-platform](), [konfigurate](), [modernization](), [platform-engineering](), [product-development](), [real-kinetic](), [terraform]() ### AI overview Real Kinetic introduces Konfig, an opinionated configuration or distribution built around GitLab and Google Cloud for startups and enterprises. The article argues that assembling flexible, unopinionated cloud products into scalable, secure delivery platforms requires substantial engineering effort. ### Source excerpt Real Kinetic helps businesses transform how they build and deliver software in the cloud. This encompasses legacy migrations, app modernization, and greenfield development. We work with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500s and everything in between. Most recently, we finished helping Panera Bread migrate their e-commerce platform to Google Cloud from on-prem and led their transition to GitLab. In doing this type of work over the years, we've noticed a problem organizations consistently hit that causes them to stumble with these cloud transformations. Products like GCP, GitLab, and Terraform are quite flexible and capable, but they are sort of like the piles of Legos below.