Anant Platform Playbook
At Anant, we have been building business platforms since 2010. Today, our expertise is in global, real-time, distributed data platforms that connect all aspects of a modern enterprise. This Playbook comes from our experiences earning that expertise. It’s a set of best practices and a framework for creating, maintaining, and operating a modern enterprise business platform with a real-time data & analytics platform connecting it all.
Platform Principles
Templates and tools help us save time and be consistent.
1. Contexts
Contexts – People, processes, information, platforms, in that order.
2. Responsibility
The people, processes, information, and systems overlap across responsibility areas in an organization.
3. Approach
Having an approach allows us to manage systems long term.
4. Framework
Having a framework allows us to use the best practices but the freedom to switch things out.
5. Tools
Templates and tools help us save time and be consistent.
Framework Principles
Use the technologies of the modern enterprise.
6. Distributed
All components should be distributed so that it can scale and be available, all the time, to all users.
7. Realtime
All components should be realtime or reactive platforms.
8. Extendable
All components should be extendable and not closed.
9. Automated
All operations with data and dev should automated.
10. Monitored
All systems should be monitored with metrics and logging.
Approach Principles
Platform management means people & technology management.
11. Setup
Setup procedures should be documented, scripted, and then automated.
12. Training
Training materials should available or referenced in a central place.
13. Administration
All administrative operations should be documented, scripted, and then automated.
14. Customization
All customization or special configuration should be documented, and part of an automated devops process.
15. Knowledge
All knowledge should be kept up to date as part of each sprint.
