DevOps, 12-Factor, and Platform Engineering

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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), shows concrete 12‑factor practices—env vars, dependency isolation, stateless processes, port binding—and cites tools: Docker and Kubernetes, GitHub, Datadog, Backstage. Presents an implemented pattern: an internal developer portal (Cortex style) that shifts orchestration to choreography, argues it reduces toil and increases deployment frequency, and reports iterative refinement over three talk versions.

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1. 0:00intro
2. 0:14introduction to devops and platform engineering
3. 1:53the origins and evolution of devops
4. 2:57theory of constraints and its impact on devops
5. 12:39the role of open source in devops
6. 18:42the 12-factor app methodology
7. 25:25challenges and future of platform engineering
8. 27:38conclusion and invitation to conference

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