Why we skipped SRE and switched to Platform Engineering?
summary
Electrolux replaces hiring more SREs with an internal developer platform that turns Terraform modules into self‑service catalogs using Backstage + Terraform + AWS, auto‑approves and audits changes, and surfaces cost and topology. The platform spawns infra in minutes (demo shows ~15 minutes), drives teams to own incidents, and provisions 3,000+ resources that otherwise would have taken 200+ days reduced to <3 days to deliver via tickets. An open‑source “infra” fork strips templates so orgs supply their own.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Electrolux journey
- 3:05SRE challenges and growth
- 8:52Scaling turning point
- 12:09Internal developer platform
- 17:56Microservice platform support
- 20:25Platform as product and OSS
- 22:36Open source platform intro
- 26:09Platform live demo
- 32:40How platform works
- 34:48Migration lessons and OSS
- 38:26OSS journey and plans
- 39:53Q&A
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