04-17, 16:50–17:20 (Europe/Amsterdam), The Suite
Internet native tech companies have long understood that first-class infrastructure, platforms, and a great developer experience are essential to achieve business outcomes at scale. But, instead, growing companies and established enterprises face conflicts in making the appropriate investment and, as a result, struggle to scale their engineering teams and processes.
In this talk, we will look at the role of internal developer platforms and platform engineering teams, what are their signature competencies and superpowers. You will get to understand which metrics reflect their success, deep dive into how to build these platforms and best practices to be applied. You should leave this talk with the wish to grow your own internal developer platform and platform engineering team.
Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms are hyped topics, but to less, it is understood the difference between DevOps, SRE and co. This talk aims to clarify the differences and underline the importance, but mainly the positive impact on enterprises. Based on our experience of building those platforms and teams for various large companies within Germany, we will show our best practices and lessons learned.
We want to trigger a motivation for this topic, getting the audience curious and make them understand how their organization will benefit from it.
Max is Co-Founder and Cloud Native Advocate at Liquid Reply. He is Co-Chair of the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group and served 3 years at the Kubernetes release team. Besides, he is part of different OSS Advisory Boards. His focus is on designing and building cloud-native solutions on/with Kubernetes and platform engineering to simplify the current challenges of complex systems.