20 years' platform engineering, 10 years' Platform as a Product, 5 lessons learned

I’ve broken everything that can be broken on multiple occasions when it comes to platform engineering. Let's talk about how to avoid making the same mistakes.

We need to have an open discussion about why platform engineering was necessary, why platform as a product evolved to make our efforts more effective, and how we must learn from the past to avoid repeating our mistakes. This talk examines what happens when platform engineering goes wrong, and how we can employ a few simple patterns to improve our lives and the lives of our customers.