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Tools used by the top 1% of Platform Engineers and their Commercial Open Source Alternatives

Utpal Nadiger on January 12, 2024

In today’s article, we are diving deep into the top tools used by platform engineers and their commercial open source alternatives The tools that ...

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Mohamed • Jan 12 '24

I'm a top 1% platform engineer

Bap • Jan 16 '24

Short and sweet + great tools there. Thanks 🙏

Utpal Nadiger Digger • Jan 16 '24

Thanks Bap!

Pawan Jain • Jan 13 '24

Got to know about Backstage.
Thanks for sharing COSS alternatives used by platform engineers

Utpal Nadiger Digger • Jan 16 '24

Cheers Pavan!

Marc Seitz • Jan 16 '24

Very cool that you listed the open source alternatives!

Utpal Nadiger Digger • Jan 16 '24

Thanks Marc!

Marc Seitz • Jan 18 '24

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Pranay Prateek • Feb 16 '24

Thanks for featuring SigNoz - if anyone wants to check our github repo -> github.com/signoz/signoz

Matija Sosic • Jan 15 '24

Thanks for sharing! What would be the main difference between Digger and TF cloud, besides the open-source?

Utpal Nadiger Digger • Jan 16 '24

Great Q - Digger runs within your existing CI/CD system (eg GitHub Actions), and doesn't require you to duplicate compute for Terraform Deployment. Because of this reason you end up saving on paying twice for compute.

Another reason to use Digger over TFC is that Digger Cloud is priced per user, but TFC is priced per resource under management, which becomes extremely expensive at scale.