Our talks

Browse all PlatformCon 2023 talks in one place.

Structuring effective cross-functional SRE teams

Companies of various maturity levels and starting points can learn how to structure and lead SRE teams for maximum impact towards building and adopting shared developer platforms. This session will cover culture (behaviors incentivized), program and portfolio management, and engagement structures drawn from successes building shared developer platforms at AB InBev, NYTimes, and National Geographic.

Payam Azadi

Engineering Director, Sabbatical

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Stories

June 8

Platform kick-start at a Global Telecom organization

I'll take you inside the early stages, wins, challenges, and learnings of a large-scale complex platform adoption effort to share what worked, what didn't, and what might just make your efforts pay off.

Steve Pereira

Advisor, Visible Consulting

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Culture

June 8

You built an internal platform. So what, now what?

You've celebrated the first parts of your Internal Developer Platform. Users are migrating to your workflows, but suddenly uptake stalls. Your developers don't want to use them because they just want to deploy code! So what, now what? We will quickly walk through the cultural impacts I've seen after building internal platforms at three different companies - and what you can expect and avoid.

Schuyler Bishop

VP Software Engineering, DroneUp

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Stories

June 9

Optimizing platform engineering adoption

What do you call teams that use the platform provided to them by the central platform team? That's right, you call them the platform user engineering team! And the role of this team is to be the team that uses and experiments with all the platform features that are available and keeps modernizing it.

Sheela Shankar

Executive Director, JPMC Asset Management

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Impact

June 9

Security at scale: Achieving security with multiple deployments per day

This presentation focuses on providing platform engineering teams with capabilities they can leverage to provide services to other teams, and reduce the risk related to applications through a scalable approach throughout the entire SDLC.

Martin Iluminatti

Director of Engineering

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Blueprints

June 9

How to establish your open, user-centric platform

Learn how to establish an Internal Developer Platform through an InnerSourcing approach that will boost the DevOps journey, for those looking for a scalable solution that focuses on user needs.

Onno Ceelen

Sr. Product Manager Engineering Productivity, bol.com

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Tech

June 8

Best practices for modularizing a Terraform project

In this talk, I will share Terraform best practices to optimize Infrastructure as code. Using real-world examples from my experience using Terraform, I will explore common challenges and anti-patterns by providing practical strategies to overcome them.

Vjosa Fusha

System Reliability Engineer, Moss

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Stories

June 8

From 8 days to 8 minutes

Learn how the largest private-sector bank in Portugal automated the entire app and infra dependencies lifecycle with a single file, providing a curated self-service experience for our software developers.

Nuno Guedes

Cloud Compute Lead, Millennium

André Leal

Head of Software Development Framework, Millennium BCP

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Impact

June 9

How to make an Internal Developer Platform your users will love

Developer Experience (DevEX, DX) and user experience (UX) are far more closely related than people think. In this talk, we will explore why you must understand UX principles to ensure your Internal Developer Platform doesn't suck.

Fernando Villalba

Sr. Tech Evangelist, Humanitec

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Stories

June 8

Standardization and security, a perfect match

This session talks about the challenges Northwestern Mutual faced with too many tools and too much choice. We talk about the idea of the "Paradox of Choice" and how it applies to platform engineering. Our approach to standardizing involved standardizing the tooling, the CI/CD pipelines, and implementing many guardrails. We also discuss the many cultural and organizational implications of this approach.

Ravi Devineni

Sr. Director of Engineering, Northwestern Mutual

Vinny Carpenter

Vice President - Cloud & DevOps Engineering, Northwestern Mutual

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Culture

June 8

Platform engineering: From culture to practice

Do you want to move to the next stage of DevOps- Platform Engineering? Then this talk is for you. From discussing why, to how to create a platform engineering organisation, to which tooling and approaches to apply to create the team, the platform, culture, and the proper process. The talk will include demos and practical tooling guidance, based on experience.

Serg Hospodarets

Executive Vice President of Global Engineering, Finalsite, ex-William Hill

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Tech

June 8

Reduce cloud cost and increase reliability via accurate resource recommendations

There are two simple numbers in Kubernetes that control your utilization, cost, and reliability. These are, of course, your requests and limits. But where do these numbers come from? We will demo open-source tooling for safely and accurately allocating resources. You will learn best practices for setting requests and limits on your own applications.

Put the ‘auto’ into autoscaling—make K8s VPA and HPA work together for optimal resource provisioning

Without autoscaling, most companies recognize they’re either wasting a lot of resources or risking performance/reliability issues. Learn how to meet this challenge with high accuracy and little to no effort by using machine learning.

Niels Roetert

Solutions Architect, StormForge

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Tech

June 8

How to avoid burning your startup money on cloud costs

In this talk, I will take you through Sygnia’s optimization journey which resulted in a 50% reduction in our AWS costs. We’ll take a deep technical dive into the world of cloud cost optimization with concrete and practical solutions. I will share real screenshots from the process at Sygnia, and provide insights I developed over the years into optimizing costs across the most popular AWS services.

Yuval Yogev

Chief Architect, Sygnia

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Blueprints

June 9

Beyond the basics: Designing an Internal Developer Platform for the future

Current Internal Developer platforms cover a certain scope that is mostly limited to DevOps aspects. This talk is to highlight that organizations need a lot more in terms of application architecture to be truly productive, and to scope out what else needs to be covered.

Nuwan Dias

VP & Deputy CTO, WSO2

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Tech

June 8

Beyond environment variables: A deep dive into efficient configuration management

Configuration management is a key component in infrastructure. Suboptimal practices in config management will add friction to code changes, put infrastructure security at risk, and significantly drag down engineering productivity. In this talk, we dive into SafeGraph’s journey of moving from a clumsy config and secret management approach to a more streamlined and centralized strategy.

Rajaie Alkorani

Platform Engineer, SafeGraph

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Tech

June 8

Kubernetes and WebAssembly boldly venturing into new frontiers

Best-selling author and video-trainer Nigel Poulton uncovers a future where Kubernetes and WebAssembly work together to change the future of cloud native, and boldly go where Kubernetes could never go before.

Nigel Poulton

Director, Nigel Poulton Ltd

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Stories

June 8

Why we skipped SRE and switched to platform engineering

We work in an IoT organization in the Home Appliance industry, and scaled from ten to 200 developers with five Ops engineers within three years. Today our developers can push code from day one with minimum knowledge of infrastructure. In this talk we are going to tell you how we built our Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with integration to our Cloud and different toolchains, and how we embed SRE principles into this IDP.

Kristina Kondrashevich

SRE Product Owner, Electrolux

Gang Luo

SRE Manager, Electrolux

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Culture

June 9

Behind the scenes of Puppet’s 2023 State of DevOps Report: Platform engineering edition

For the past 11 years, Puppet has released a State of DevOps Report with an eye on everything trending in DevOps. This year, it focused on one singular, and important, topic platform engineering.Join Puppet’s Principal Solution Architect David Sandilands as he explores key findings within the State of DevOps report and talks about the future of DevOps through the lens of platform engineering.‍

David Sandilands

Sr. Solutions Architect, Puppet

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Stories

June 8

How we scaled DevOps 10x with platform engineering

This talk covers how platform engineering helped us scale DevOps from serving one team of ten developers to providing services to the entire engineering organisation of ~100 people, while still keeping our team small.

Oleksandr Rozdolskyi

Engineering Manager, NielsenIQ

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Impact

June 9

Working backwards to drive platform adoption

Discover how Value Stream Management (VSM) can fast-track your organization's Internal Development Platform implementation. This talk will delve into the VSM Implementation Roadmap, explaining how it can guide your team through each step of the process and optimize your development platform to deliver exceptional internal stakeholder experiences. ‍

Steve Pereira

Advisor, Visible Consulting

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Impact

June 8

How to make the business case for an Internal Developer Platform

When you see your organization solving into the same problems again and again, you may try to pitch a platform as a solution. But what if your budget-holders only see platformization as an extra cost center? How do you convince them of the value you know an internal platform brings? We’ll share our experience with how to speak platforms to management, pitching value in terms they care about.

Kendra Skeene

Director of Product, Ad Hoc

Andrew Gunsch

Director of Engineering, Ad Hoc

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Impact

June 8

Containers: Where we came from and where the future's taking us

The past ten years have seen a dramatic revolution in how software is developed, packaged, and run. While vast improvements have been made, there's still a lot of opportunity ahead. In this talk, we'll recap this rising abstraction and talk about where the future might take us.

The roadmap impact: A blueprint for success

A good, long-term roadmap creates a lot of clarity for the platform team and its users. But what's a good way to balance the various needs of different users? How can the platform team get good feedback on its vision? And how do you get organization-wide buy-in for it all? If you want to learn how to accomplish all of these goals, this session is for you!

Nadav Cohen

Director of Platform Engineering, Forter

Pavel Brodsky

Engineering Manager, Forter

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Culture

June 9

Platform engineering is all about product

“Platform Engineering,” the latest buzzword, means building an internal platform to improve your software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a way your developers will want to use. Can this be done with engineering skills alone? In this session I’ll explain which product skills are required when building a platform, and how to use them to build a platform your developers love.

Gal Bashan

Head of Engineering, Epsagon

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Blueprints

June 8

How to build sustainable systems with Kubernetes

Kubernetes is not the answer to everything, but where it is, it is a great companion to designing systems and putting environmental sustainability into your mind. But being eco-friendly invites people to greenwash their intentions, so let us start the story from the end and clarify some myths. Saving money on infrastructure may reduce your carbon impact, but we can do more.

Max Körbächer

Co-Founder, Liquid Reply

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Tech

June 9

Enter the machines: Reducing friction in DevOps using AI

AI natural language models have the potential to significantly improve the developer experience by automating tedious tasks and assisting with code and configuration generation. In this talk, we will explore the various tools that utilize these models to streamline the work of platform engineering teams, making their work more efficient and allowing them to focus on higher-order tasks.

Eran Bibi

CPO & Co-Founder, Firefly

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Tech

June 8

Automating adoption: Scorecards for service owners

Learn how to automate the adoption of platform components with scorecards. This feedback loop is directed at service owners to help them understand how their service measures up to the current standards, and how to improve their posture.

John Patterson

Principal Engineer, SageSure Insurance Managers

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Stories

June 9

Shift left! Build it right! Discover the DevEx journey

The path to building amazing software starts with empowering engineering teams to work autonomously and build faster. However, the increase in the landscape of tools, systems, technologies, compliance, decisions, and tasks that developers must navigate leads to decreased productivity. Teams are being forced to make unexpected handoffs and decisions, interrupting the flow of work and leading to developer fatigue.‍

Javier Alvarez

Principal Application Engineer, Discover Financial Services

Andrew Duckett

Developer Experience, Discover Financial Services

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Culture

June 9

Values in tech. Just buzzwords or action items?

Ever found yourself lost, not sure which role to take, or not able to pinpoint what bugs you at work? Values are the lighthouse that should guide any decision in your professional life. In this talk, I’ll explain the roles values have in tech career navigation. We’ll explore how to utilize them to steer your professional life in the right direction for you, so you don’t end up simply “going with the flow”.‍

Hila Fish

Sr. DevOps Engineer, Wix

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Tech

June 8

The busy platform engineers guide to API gateways

API Gateways are certainly not a new technology. But how they are deployed, configured, and operated within modern platforms forces many of us to rethink our approach. Can we lift and shift our existing gateway into the cloud? Is our API gateway GitOps friendly (and must it be)? And what about service meshes, CNI, eBPF, and...

Daniel Bryant

Head of DevRel, Ambassador Labs

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Stories

June 9

With great self-served platform comes a greater need for multi-tenancy

This talk will be curated with the use cases, challenges, concerns and mitigation strategies experienced by the Lowe's Platform engineering team while creating, maintaining, and scaling a real-time data reporting platform.

Diganta Mukherjee

Lead Software Engineer, Lowe's Services India

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Culture

June 9

Managing Internal Developer Platform adoption challenges

One of the most significant challenges for our Internal Developer Platform scope is ensuring the right strategy for clients and software teams, to adopt the tools and services our IDP teams offer and support.

Asier Marqués

Sr. Engineering Director, Auctane

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Stories

June 8

The impact of effectively running large platforms with small teams

Small platform teams in large organizations handle large surges in adoption and broad customer bases. This talk will share the key lessons I've learned about building and maintaining platforms under these conditions.

David Cleaver

Distinguished Engineer, Comcast

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Tech

June 8

Edge at Razorpay: the API gateway for DDoS-protected, high-scale environments

As a key provider of financial infrastructure in India, Razorpay facilitates transactions for prominent companies across various industries. This case study focuses on how Razorpay implemented Edge, its API gateway, to address the scalability and availability needs, as well as protect against DDoS and abusive traffic.

Jay Pathak

Software Development Engineer, Razorpay

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Tech

June 8

Implementing zero trust architecture with Context-Aware-Proxy

Learn about the benefits of Zero Trust Architecture: A security framework based on continuous monitoring and the principle of least privilege, moving your first internal site to the internet with Context-Aware-Proxy.

Daniel Louvier Picon

Site Reliability Engineer, Moss

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Culture

June 8

Technical documentation. How can I write them better and why should I care?

In this talk I’ll show you a structured way to write technical docs. Even if you’re not a technical writer you’ll be able to deliver highly valuable information to your audience, to the best of your ability. I’ll explain why you should care about these docs, how they serve your best interests (yes, there’s more than one!) and what impact they could have on employees and even your entire organization.‍

Hila Fish

Sr. DevOps Engineer, Wix

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Culture

June 8

The Golden Age of the Platform

We are about to enter a new Golden Age: The age of the platform. But what are the different kinds of platforms? What makes them similar or unique? How can we introduce them effectively and start delivering stories into production quickly and safely, to serve all of our organisation's communities?

James Bowkett

Technical Delivery Director, OpenCredo

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Stories

June 8

How SAP paved the road for 30k+ developers

At SAP we have 30k+ people working in our development organization, with 1k+ products on our price list using various technology stacks.Backed by in-house user research and industry trends we decided to lower our team's cognitive load by introducing an in-house CI/CD platform called 'Hyperspace'.

Dirk Lehmann

Solution Manager Hyperspace, SAP SE

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Culture

June 8

Shorten the feedback loop: How to optimize developer experience and system design

This talk will explore why developer experience and system design must be considered collectively to tighten feedback loops and improve application development workflow. We will discuss how adopting a “DX first” system design philosophy allows teams to minimize technical debt and maximize feature delivery.

Dave Thompson

Software Engineering Manager, Workday

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Stories

Learn from practitioners who built platforms for real-life enterprise use cases. These talks showcase the platform journey – from initial steps to building it and rolling it out across the engineering organization.

Tech

Dive deep into the technical backbone of developer platforms. This track explores how platform teams solve specific problems with specific tools – from Kubernetes to IaC, service catalogs and GitOps.

Blueprints

Explore tried and true platform blueprints and reference architectures. These talks uncover key design considerations and explore how to effectively combine tools for your developer platform.

Culture

Developer platforms don’t live in a vacuum. They are built by engineers for other engineers. This track discusses the cultural aspects of platform engineering, from product management to how it relates to DevOps and SRE.

Impact

Discover the impact and business value platform engineering initiatives deliver. Hear C-level perspectives on how their platform impacted key metrics and practitioners on how they secured executive buy-in.

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