Platforms, People & Process; Delivering Great Developer Experiences

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.