Conf42 Platform Engineering 2024
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Personalized EB-1A Guidance | Ankit Virmani, Namaswi Chandarana, Tina Gada | 20m |
A mobile-first conversational system for e1a guidance that grounds answers with retrieval augmented generation and a document corpus, backend in nodejs with… | ||
| Engineering the Future of Pharma: AI-Driven Drug Discovery | Amit Taneja | 08m |
Traditional figures appear: $2.6B average cost and ~12 years to approval, and the talk gives concrete counters — platform engineering plus CI/CD and cloud… | ||
| Enterprise App Integration: A Data-Driven Approach | Vamsi Srivangipuram | 25m |
Claims that integrating applications yields measurable gains: 29% increase in open rates and 20–30% revenue leakage when integration is poor. Implements… | ||
| Exploring AI-Powered Chatbots and Their Transformative Role | Nagarajan Madhavan | 13m |
Claim: an AI chatbot that creates EC2 test environments on demand, triggers CI/CD via Jenkins and rolls back when needed, and executes deployments on… | ||
| AI Disassembly for a Sustainable Circular Economy | Lav Kumar | 12m |
Claim: AI and robotics actually raise recovery rates — reports of 40% increase in material recovery and company claims up to 50% improvement in metal recovery… | ||
| Kubernetes Deployment from Platform to API | Yuriy Bezsonov | 15m |
Claim: putting runtime manifests and infrastructure IaC in the same repository reduced deployment time from hours to minutes. Implementation uses AWS CDK or… | ||
| Building a Serverless GenAI Platform | Murali Mallina | 32m |
A serverless GenAI platform is already built and running for customers and internal teams it deploys as a CDK project and runs on AWS with Azure GCP and… | ||
| AI-Augmented DevOps with Platform Engineering | Romano Roth | 30m |
Describes a working platform that integrates Azure OpenAI and LLMs behind a developer portal and CLI, with a floating platform design that plugs into… | ||
| Efficient & Frugal Image Data Processing Pipelines | Anna Heng Chi | 17m |
Claims concrete wins: content-aware adaptive compression that analyzes regions and trims bytes while keeping faces and edges intact, format shifts to WebP/AVIF… | ||
| Build Cyber-Awareness in Platform Development Teams | Victor Onyenagubom | 14m |
States that platform teams adopt a secure-by-design mindset, run penetration testing every 3 months and use static code analysis plus automated tools and SIEMs… | ||
| Building a Network Telemetry Platform | Siri Varma Vegiraju | 15m |
A concrete platform collects billions of events per day via lightweight agents using TCP dump and Windows dump, ships them into a datastore, and runs a… | ||
| Harnessing Microfrontends: Platforms for Web Apps | Venkata Sai Manoj Pasupuleti | 19m |
Claim: breaking a monolith into microfrontends yields independent deploys, faster cycles and fault isolation — e.g., a cart failure leaves the catalog usable —… | ||
| Building Privacy Aware Infrastructure | Natalia Grybovska | 21m |
Claims GDPR is the de facto center for regulation and compliance work, with concrete policies attached to data elements (example: US bank statements retention… | ||
| The Engineer’s Guide to Business Mastery | Roman Shmyhelskyi | 24m |
Claim: technical excellence stops getting promotions without business acumen—problem solving, communication, critical thinking and leadership drive visibility… | ||
| Conquering Hybrid DNS with Route 53 Resolver | Atif Siddiqui | 13m |
Concrete claim: Route 53 Resolver replaces DIY EC2 DNS boxes for hybrid clouds and is a regional VPC resource announced in 2018 (six years ago). The… | ||
| Want to Run Containers on AWS? Here’s How ! | Chakkree Tipsupa | 20m |
Claims 80% of cloud containers run on AWS and AWS lists 34 ways to run containers; tooling is concrete: ECR, ECS, EKS, App Runner, Fargate, EC2, RDS, SSM… | ||
| The Future of Work: Engaged Leaders & Empowered Teams | Leslie Martinich | 32m |
Claims specific gains from trust with numbers: up to 50% productivity and up to 65% improved retention; current engagement statistics cited as 65% not engaged… | ||
| Team Topologies Applied to Platform Engineering | Cansu Kavili Ornek, Val Yonchev | 30m |
Concrete claims and tactics appear: platforms must accelerate flow of value, reduce cognitive load, and enable team autonomy; measure success at the team level… | ||
| Empower Developer Experience | Cedric Clyburn, Valentina Rodriguez Sosa | 34m |
Claims that platform engineering as a product turns months‑long waits into self‑service steps and shows working demos: a Backstage‑based Red Hat Developer Hub… | ||
| Navigating the Dev's Journey: Crafting an Effective Roadmap for Success | Ruby Kaur | 18m |
Claims a concrete target: deliver emails in under an hour by prioritizing engineers' pain points and trimming process waste. Uses Miro for journey mapping… | ||
| The Streaming Plane | Hubert Dulay | 14m |
Maps the claim that a streaming plane actually delivers low‑latency realtime analytics by combining Apache Pinot style realtime OLAP with Kafka Redpanda Pulsar… | ||
| Many Layers of Availability | Ilya Kaznacheev | 33m |
Argues that real availability comes from stacked, interoperating layers and gives concrete examples: built a public cloud with kubernetes as a service and… | ||
| High-Load Systems: Challenges in Social Network Development | Alexandr Kolobov | 18m |
Numbers: 100 million users per month, 100 million posts per day and 9 billion post views per day drive the decisions. The system migrates from MySQL to dozens… | ||
| Developer-Driven Platforms: Automation and UI Excellence | Elliott Clark | 21m |
Core claim: developers cause most incidents because changes slip through from either not understanding vs not testing. Concrete failure: a config change ups… | ||
| When Clusters Collide: The Misadventures of Disaster Recovery in K8s | Lev Andelman | 15m |
Claims Kubernetes DR is deceptively tricky and shows a concrete two‑region EKS setup with a working failover pattern: two clusters, ExternalDNS and… | ||
| DevOps, 12-Factor, and Platform Engineering | Justin Reock | 28m |
Claims that throughput—not cost—is the key metric and ties that to theory of constraints with historical anchors (2009 coinage and decades of provenance)… | ||
| Transform CyberSec Governance with GenAI | Akshay Sekar Chandrasekaran | 19m |
Claims a concrete stack: homomorphic encryption plus trusted execution environments, API gateways, rate limiting, digital signatures and real‑time monitoring… | ||
| AI-Augmented Platform Engineering | Ajay Chankramath | 23m |
Claims that applying LLMs and retrieval‑augmented generation to platform engineering raises developer productive time from about 30% to 60% and can approach… | ||
| Platform Engineering Untold Truths | Graziano Casto | 23m |
Argues platform engineering industrializes DevOps and broadens platforms beyond infra to include data, ML, APIs and security, proposing an internal developer… | ||
| Full Life-Cycle Infrastructure Orchestration | Long Zhang, Vladimir Shcherbinin | 26m |
Electrolux platform team builds an internal developer platform using Backstage UI and backend API with versioned Terraform templates and Terraform modules to… | ||
| When Infrastructure as Code Ends: Creating Terraform Providers | Harel Safra | 23m |
Claims that anyone can write a Terraform provider and shows how it actually happens: code is Go using the Go and Terraform plugin framework, a live demo builds… | ||
| Building Observability into Your iOS App Platform | Siarhei Misko | 27m |
Practical checklist of what gets built and what actually works: OS log access options (console, cdiagnose that takes 15 minutes and >200MB), writing logs to… | ||
| AWS Observability as Code: Leveraging Datadog | Indika Wimalasuriya | 38m |
Claims that AWS observability is repeatable as code using Datadog and Terraform, with concrete examples: centralized Datadog integrations, log filtering to cut… | ||
| Importance of Observability in Platform Engineering | Neel Shah | 15m |
Observability claims concrete wins: it drives proactive CPU scaling by correlating logs traces and metrics, it surfaces that some services run at 10–20% usage… | ||
| The Road Ahead: Istio Observability | Siddhartha Khare | 12m |
Demo shows Istio observability wired to New Relic Kubernetes integration collecting Prometheus metrics from Envoy sidecar proxies and Kubernetes pods on… | ||
| Oracle RICE: A Comprehensive Guide to Optimizing | Harikrishna Reddy | 12m |
Concrete claims include manufacturing saving $75 million saved and retail $12 million saved after RICE work while a financial institution reports 99.98%… | ||
| Billions of Records in MySQL: Lessons Learned | Lukas Vileikis | 25m |
Claims a reproducible full-text boolean bug that makes some MATCH ... AGAINST queries take a different planner path and time out, demonstrates a production… | ||
| The Future of Platform Engineering | Marina Burkhardt, Martin Sakowski | 27m |
Claims that platforms succeed when they provide concrete blueprints and ownership patterns rather than vague guidance and promise. Uses AWS primitives: an… | ||
| Cross-Platform Development as a Native Mobile Developer | Dmitry Taraev | 18m |
Claim: Flutter replaces native apps at scale — a 40‑person project (Yandex Pro) and a 3‑person startup (Blush) both migrate to a single codebase, with Android… | ||
| Platforms MUST Be Small, Regardless of Their Size | Robert Kelly | 13m |
Claims that platforms must be small no matter company size and that most enterprise platforms have become monoliths through tool sprawl. Evidence: examples of… | ||
| Platform Engineering - a 1 mln $ worth change | Krzysztof Halasa | 15m |
Claims a >$1,000,000 yearly saving — about 20% of a $5M IT budget — backed by a concrete headcount-and-hours example (10 app teams × 6 devs × $50/hr × one week… | ||
| LLM SecOps | Omer Farooq | 25m |
Claims actionable SecOps steps grounded in customer work with over 50 clients and a reference architecture: build a single multi‑tenant LM backend fronted by… | ||
| Cloud Computing Security with Multi-Layered Protection | Venukumar Chirlawar | 36m |
Claims clear: cloud spend hits 1.3 trillion by 2025, so defenses must scale; demonstrated stack includes multi-layer protection (network firewalls, IAM with… | ||
| Implementing Email Attachment Security | Gaurav Mittal | 12m |
Claims a working pipeline that creates P minip Library password‑protected .jip files, uploads them to S3, and sends short‑lived S3 pre-signed URLs via SES… | ||
| Real-Time Topology to Connect Platform Engineering & SRE | Amir Krayden | 31m |
Claims that feeding a continuously autodiscovered runtime topology into an internal developer portal closes the loop between config and reality, using BPF and… | ||
| How to Build Cloud-Native Platforms with Kubernetes | Piotr Zaniewski | 36m |
Shows a Kubernetes-first platform that uses Port for a one‑click developer flow, creates a GitHub PR, and has Argo CD reconcile changes while Crossplane… | ||
| Generative AI Solution with AWS Serverless and Bedrock | Samuel Baruffi | 39m |
An open‑source serverless app deploys to an AWS account and wires Cognito, S3, CloudFront, WAF, API Gateway (REST + WebSocket), Lambda, DynamoDB and Bedrock so… | ||
| The Code Behind Every Real-Time Collaboration Tool | Vitor Norton | 29m |
Shows working, line-by-line demo of a mouse pointer component that actually broadcasts X/Y positions via a pub/sub channel, explains how rooms group… | ||
| Mastering Pre-Mortem Analysis for Success | Laurent Parenteau | 12m |
Claims that 74% of IT projects fail and that a premortem outperforms “what could go wrong” prompts by forcing teams to set a hypothetical failed future date… | ||
| Leveraging the Actor Model in Financial Transaction Systems | Nikita Melnikov | 42m |
Claims that using Kafka plus an actor-style handler eliminates DB locking for transfers, shows a working design and tradeoffs: Postgres select‑for‑update… | ||
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