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About the track
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.
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Sessions in this track
Wednesday 10 April. 5 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Whittle (3rd Fl.) Session Platform Engineering When DevOps Runs Its Course - We Need Platform as a Runtime Aviran Mordo VP Engineering @Wix 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. 11:45 Whittle (3rd Fl.) Session Platform Engineering Building Your First Platform Team in a Fast Growing Startup Jessica Andersson PAL DevEx @Kognic, CNCF Ambassador & Speaker 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? 13:35 Whittle (3rd Fl.) Session Platform Engineering A Platform Engineering Journey: Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps Jemma Hussein Allen Platform Engineering Technical Lead With Over 19 Years Experience in Software, Systems, and Platform Engineering 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. 14:45 Whittle (3rd Fl.) Session Platform Engineering The Time Is Now: Delight Your Developers with User-Centric Platforms & Practices Ana Petkovska Engineering Manager of the Developer Experience Group @Nexthink, Holds a PhD in Logic Synthesis 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. 15:55 Whittle (3rd Fl.) Session Curating a Developer Experience - A Hands-on Guide for Platform Engineers Andy Burgin Principal Platform Engineer @Flutter UK & Ireland 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.QCon London 2024 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.