October 2024
Intermediate
56m
English
video
CTO Hour with Peter Bell: Platform Engineering—Trends, Challenges, and Success Stories
by Peter Bell
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
Join Peter Bell and a panel of senior leaders to hear expert insights on why platform engineering is becoming a popular solution for improving developer productivity and helping organizations manage the complexity of modern software development. Through a roundtable discussion you’ll learn the key problems that platform engineering solves as well as its unique benefits. Panelists will share how their organizations developed successful platform teams—from assessing initial needs and overcoming major challenges in building and scaling to fostering a culture that values the platform as a vital product. Along the way, you’ll discover how these leaders measure and communicate the success of their platforms, ensure continuous alignment with business goals, and encourage adoption. Finally, you’ll hear about the latest trends and technologies that are shaping the future of platform engineering, equipping you with the knowledge to empower your platform team’s success.
CTO Hour is a quarterly live event that brings together a panel of senior engineering leaders to discuss with expert and host Peter Bell how they’ve approached timely technology or business challenges. This dynamic event will feature ample time for questions, as well as polling of the audience to steer the discussion toward the topics you care the most about. Active and aspiring senior leaders will learn valuable insights from top VPs and CTOs and ultimately be prepared to make better-informed decisions as heads of technology.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it- Discover why platform engineering is increasingly popular and whether it’s right for your organization
- Understand the challenges of starting and scaling platform teams and avoid common pitfalls
- Learn how to measure the success of platform engineering in your organization so you can communicate its value throughout your organization
- You’re an engineering leader who’s interested in learning more about starting and succeeding with platform engineering.
- You’re leading platform teams and want to hear how others have approached and solved common problems.
- You want the chance to ask Peter Bell and panelists your questions around software development and platform engineering.
Recommended follow-up:
- Watch Infrastructure & Ops Superstream: Platform Engineering Best Practices (event video)
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