Platform engineering is not about platforms

It doesn’t matter how useful you think your platform is, or how much time and money you spend on it if people don’t adopt it. Platforms are only as powerful as their adoption. This session goes into learning from looking at dozens of successful (and unsuccessful) platform engineering initiatives.

As platform engineering has grown and expanded, the focus of vendors and teams has often revolved entirely around the developer and the experience. Kaspar explores how this over-optimisation on DevEx has led teams to forget that platform engineering is a multiplayer game, and should serve Infrastructure and Operations teams as well.

You want to join the platform engineering revolution, but not sure where to start? In this talk, Luca will set the record straight on the latest standards and best resources you can use to advance your platform engineering journey. Plus you’ll get a little SURPRISE announcement in the end!

Remember when everyone was saying DevOps is Dead? And it wasn’t actually true? Or was it? In this talk, Luca will discuss whether DevOps is really on the decline, and how platform engineering might be able to help.