Companies increasingly turn to Platform Engineering to help scale their development teams and increase engineer efficiency. But how do platforms really work? Who should build them? And is Platform Engineering overly focused on the technology? In this track, we go behind the scenes with the teams building platforms to understand how they set others up for success, work with their customers, measure their progress, and adapt to new challenges.
We'll look at platforms in the broader context of Developer Efficiency and explore how leading companies are helping their engineers avoid bottlenecks and friction. While there will be a lot of stories of how things went well, expect a few tales of unexpected trouble and bumps in the road too. This isn't the "how to do Kubernetes" track, it's the "does Kubernetes even address any of our current engineering pain points" track.
From this track
When DevOps Runs Its Course - We Need Platform as a Runtime
Wednesday Apr 10 / 10:35AM BST
In this talk, Aviran will describe how http://Wix.com is pushing this trend even further to build its own Platform as a Runtime (PaaR) infrastructure that allows developers to develop faster, better with higher quality.
Aviran Mordo
VP Engineering @Wix
Building Your First Platform Team in a Fast Growing Startup
Wednesday Apr 10 / 11:45AM BST
Platform Engineering is all about improving developer experience. It’s about accelerating and empowering developers to deliver more product value faster over time. Which makes it the perfect investment for a fast growing startup! But where do you start? And what tradeoffs do you need to make?
Jessica Andersson
PAL DevEx @Kognic, CNCF Ambassador & Speaker
A Platform Engineering Journey: Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps
Wednesday Apr 10 / 01:35PM BST
Jemma Hussein Allen's career has evolved from a web developer at a small media company to a platform engineering leader at a large multinational organisation. The journey hasn't always been smooth, but there was certainly much to learn.
Jemma Hussein Allen
Platform Engineering Technical Lead With Over 19 Years Experience in Software, Systems, and Platform Engineering
The Time Is Now: Delight Your Developers with User-Centric Platforms & Practices
Wednesday Apr 10 / 02:45PM BST
In this talk, we delve into the transformative power of adopting a user-centric approach that is required across all stages of platform development: from understanding user needs and building the platform, to fostering adoption, offering support, and prioritising future enhancements. This holistic approach brings higher improvements in developer experience and productivity, both to the product developement teams and to the teams that build the platforms.
Ana Petkovska
Engineering Manager of the Developer Experience Group @Nexthink, Holds a PhD in Logic Synthesis
Curating a Developer Experience - A Hands-on Guide for Platform Engineers
Wednesday Apr 10 / 03:55PM BST
The DevOps and SRE community is awash with discussions about product-focused platform teams. Teams manage their platforms, pipelines and tooling as a product. Helping development teams go fast by reducing time to market and operational complexity.
Andy Burgin
Principal Platform Engineer @Flutter UK & Ireland