Infrastructure & Ops Superstream: Platform Engineering Best Practices

MYOB’s Evan Bottcher has said that platforms provide a “foundation of self-service APIs, tools, services, knowledge and support, which are arranged as a compelling internal product. Autonomous delivery teams can make use of the platform to deliver product features at a higher pace, with reduced coordination.” In other words, internal platforms are the glue that holds everything together.

But do you buy or build? If you buy, is your PE team made to conform to the requirements of the preconfigured dashboard? If you build, all tooling choices require careful evaluation and trade-offs. There’s wide agreement that the goals of platform engineering are important and worthy: happy, more productive, and efficient developers building better applications. But how do you get there?

Join leading experts and practitioners for in-depth discussions covering best practices for building and managing your developer platform, the tools you can use to give your engineers and organization an edge, and more.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

• Learn what it takes to build and architect a secure, scalable, user-friendly platform in the cloud
• Understand the new skills and knowledge required of platform engineers in the age of AI and LLMs and how can these be incorporated into your ecosystems
• Explore the challenges engineers and leaders encounter on their platform engineering journey—scalability, security, governance, and the ethical considerations of AI
• Gain insight into common missteps and the cultural shifts that can help you avoid them

This recording of a live event is for you because...

• You work in operations or you’re a developer, engineer, or a product manager who wants to understand some of the core concepts, cultural shifts, and technical considerations that are part of building a developer platform.
• You want to hear the stories of platform engineering practitioners and the lessons they’ve learned about the central challenges, opportunities, and the best practices of platform engineering.

Recommended follow-up:

• Read Platform Engineering (book)
• Watch Platform Engineering on Kubernetes, video edition (video)

Please note that slides or supplemental materials are not available for download from this recording. Resources are only provided at the time of the live event.