What’s New in Infrastructure & Ops: Internal Developer Platforms and Team Topologies with Evan Bottcher
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Ask Sam Newman and Evan Bottcher your questions around infrastructure & ops
Join Sam Newman and Evan Bottcher for a discussion about the evolution of internal developer platforms and how to design teams that support a cohesive architecture reflected in underlying systems, features, processes, data, and APIs. Team arrangement, or topology, leads to “forces of alignment,” which helps in making better technology decisions for both developers and external customers.
What’s New in Infrastructure & Ops gives you a chance to explore trending topics in infrastructure & operations and to ask Sam and Evan anything you want about platform engineering, team topologies, and their own career journeys. We’ll spend a few minutes covering the trends that are influencing infrastructure & ops and then tell you what you need to know to stay ahead of the curve.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Explore how to make tool choices and organize workflows to optimize developer productivity
- Learn what constitutes an effective platform engineering team
- Understand the core values and objectives of successful platform engineering
This live event is for you because...
- You want the chance to ask Sam Newman and Evan Bottcher your questions around how infrastructure & ops is changing.
Prerequisites
- Come with your questions for Evan Bottcher
- Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration
Recommended follow-up:
- Read Platform Engineering on Kubernetes (book)
- Take Kubernetes Tooling for Platform Engineering (live course with Michael Levan)
- Watch Infrastructure & Ops Hour: Platform Engineering with Camille Fournier (video)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Thursday, April 4, 2024, at 9:00pm PT
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (60 minutes)
Your Hosts and Guests
Sam Newman
Sam Newman is a technologist focusing on the areas of cloud, microservices, and continuous delivery—three topics which seem to overlap frequently. He provides consulting, training, and advisory services to startups and large multinational enterprises alike, drawing on his more than 20 years in IT as a developer, sysadmin, and architect. Sam is the author of the best-selling Building Microservices (now in its second edition) and Monolith To Microservices, both from O’Reilly, and is also an experienced conference speaker.
Evan Bottcher
Evan Bottcher is head of data and architecture at MYOB and an experienced technical leader with more than two decades of experience in enterprise architecture, building and integrating systems, developing and executing on technology strategy, and establishing software delivery practices.