Platform Engineering Day 2025 - Europe
2025-04-01
London, United Kingdom
as the organisers put it
Platform Engineering Day Europe has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from…
who it's for
platform engineers, engineering managers, devops engineers, platform product managers, cloud architects, site reliability engineers, developer experience engineers
topics
internal developer portal; delivered workload platforms; ephemeral development environments; GitOps workflows and parity; Backstage plugins and templates; Crossplane-based platform APIs; Kubernetes fleet management; DORA and SPACE metrics; platform as a product; self-service developer workflows; on-prem LLM platform engineering; container defense systems
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | P. Kennedy, S. Weston, S. Vohra, N. Bilgic | 08m |
Event opens with logistics: two tracks (main room and room H) with 10‑minute gaps between talks, coffee and lunch breaks, and an evening reception; code of… | ||
| Project Updates | Abby Bangser, Colin Griffin, Atulpriya Sharma | 14m |
Announces migration from the TAG App Delivery working group to the CNCF Platform Engineering community and explains structural reasons and expected freedoms… | ||
| Stop Building Portals, and Start Delivering Workloads. For Realz | Will Stewart | 05m |
Argues that internal portals become a fragile UI over a broken platform and instead promotes a delivered workload platform that actually runs in customer… | ||
| Platform Engineering with a Product Management Mindset: 10x Your De... | Jabed Amin | 06m |
Claims that treating the Internal Developer Portal as a product can 10x productivity by focusing on outcomes not outputs, using an internal developer portal… | ||
| The End of Localhost: A Platform Team's Guide to Securing Agenti... | Louis Bichard | 06m |
Platform teams must choose specific infrastructure: GitPod-style ephemeral dev environments to solve works on my machine and reclaim 10–20% developer time… | ||
| So You Want To Hire for Platform Engineering? | Hazel Weakly | 24m |
Practical hiring playbook: design an open book interview loop that allows internet and AI, measures after‑hire indicators, and ditch whiteboard puzzles; aim… | ||
| Scaling the Sound: Fleet Management at Spotify | Daynesh Mangal | 23m |
Spotify describes a move to a fleet-first approach that standardizes on a defined golden tech set, Backstage plugins and templates, and declarative infra so… | ||
| The Past, the Present, and the Future of Platform Engineering | Mauricio Salatino, Viktor Farcic | 26m |
Platform engineering is framed as decades of repeated failure then a clear pattern emerges: API + controllers pattern layered on Kubernetes as the standard… | ||
| From Build To Boom: Using GTM To Drive Internal Platform Adoption | David Stenglein, Erica Hughberg | 24m |
Argues that internal platforms need a GTM plan not just engineering: identify the buyer who controls developer time, sell outcomes not tech (don’t lead with… | ||
| Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers | Stéphane Di Cesare, Cat Morris | 24m |
Product thinking shifts platform engineering from unseen ops work to measurable business impact by prioritizing outcomes over output and focusing on user… | ||
| Are You Ready for Platform Adoption, or Are You Setting Yourself up for Failure? | Abby Bangser, Whitney Lee, Leena Mooneeram, Ana Margarita Medina | 32m |
Argues that confusing a portal with a platform dooms adoption and that an API-first platform (examples: Crossplane, Cratics) with onboardable, on‑demand APIs… | ||
| Platform as a Product as a Transformation Enabler Within One of the Top 4 Banks in the UK | Joel King, Ashley-Jade Marshall, Chris Plank, Sapphire Mason-Brown, Nicki Watt | 34m |
NatWest describes a two‑year Platform as a Product push that trains teams with 18 months of bootcamps and hackathons, uses Cintaso’s cratics to codify domain… | ||
| DORA Metrics in Practice: Make them Observable through your Platform! | Danielle Cook, Andreas Grabner | 25m |
Dynatrace runs an internal platform called Juno platform that tracks CI/CD end to end and maps DORA to business outcomes; it supports ~2,000 engineers and ~300… | ||
| Platform Abstractions an Asset or Liability? - Let’s Understand the Abstraction Debt Trap | Atulpriya Sharma | 24m |
Argues that platform abstractions become a bottleneck unless designed for measurable Abstraction Elasticity, defines that metric and shows how to evaluate… | ||
| "I Choo-choo-choose You"; or How To Build Modern Platforms in a 200 Year Old Industry | Roberth Strand, Manfred Bjørlin | 23m |
Rail operator BaneNOR runs three platform teams (development, integration, data) on Azure following landing zone patterns, with apps on Kubernetes, Confluent… | ||
| The Story of Lemonade's T-env: Scaling a Platform To Improve the Velocity of Hundreds of Developers | Ramiro Berrelleza, Nir Gilboa | 20m |
Lemonade builds t-env, an internal dev platform running Kubernetes plus Okteto, Pulumi and Grafana that gives each developer one or more personal copies of the… | ||
| Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions: The Practitioner Panel | Suhail Patel, Paula Kennedy, Jinhong Brejnholt, Rachael Wonnacott, Mark Campbell | 25m |
Large banks (19M customers) and challengers (12M customers, ~500 engineers) describe platform engineering as Kubernetes-led but constrained by audits… | ||
| Platform Perseverance: Taming 1,000 Kubernetes Clusters | Marcy Paramonova, Stéphane Cusin | 21m |
Operates 1,000 upstream Kubernetes clusters with a three‑person platform team, using an in‑house cluster lifecycle CLI and a custom cluster CRD/operator to… | ||
| Platform Engineering and DevEx for Your On-Prem LLM | Hannah Foxwell, Luke Marsden | 24m |
Claims a reproducible on‑prem GenAI IDP built on Kubernetes using Helix and an AI spec CRD to version models, knowledge and integrations; it runs open‑source… | ||
| Platform-as-a-Product: First Insights From CNCF Platform Working Group's Ongoing Research | Dominik Kress, David Stenglein | 25m |
CNCF Platforms Working Group runs qualitative interviews and a Google Forms survey, produces an interview script, anonymized transcripts and whiteboard… | ||
| Building Platforms With Empathy and YAML at the LEGO Group | Mads Høgstedt Danquah, Christian Trolle Mikkelsen | 22m |
Platform teams deliver Kubernetes-based runtimes as a service to 250 product teams, expose APIs via an internal portal called Baseplate, and standardize… | ||
| Platform Engineering for Architects - Crafting Platforms as a Product | Max Korbacher, Hilliary Lipsig | 23m |
Internal Developer Platforms fail because teams build infrastructure projects not products; adoption, not tech, is the failure mode. The talk claims many orgs… | ||
| 10 Quick Tips on How To Internally Market Your Platform | Christina Kraus | |
Platform teams learn that great tech doesn’t sell itself: PLG leaders spend 34% median of revenue on sales and marketing but internal teams usually lack that… | ||
| If You Think Building Platforms Is Hard, Try Selling Them! | Ram Iyengar | 11m |
Argues that platform adoption fails more from bad sales than bad engineering and shows concrete fixes: translate metrics into business language, treat an… | ||
| Project Zero Day: Building the Ultimate Container Defense System | Prerit Munjal | 10m |
Platform that automates registry scanning and hot-patching, reducing mean detection from ~5 hours to 180 seconds and cutting vulnerability response time from 5… | ||
| Save Thousands of DevOps Hours: Unleashing the Power of Self-Service | Ofir Sharony | 12m |
MyHeritage builds a self-service platform that turns high-level CDK-style recipes into OpenTofu via GitOps, embedding IAM, encryption, auditing, and compliance… | ||
| Building Thriving Communities in Platform Engineering: Collaboration, Innovation, and Growth | Matteo Bianchi, William Rizzo, Cortney Nickerson, Kelly Revenaugh, Bart Farrell | 28m |
Panelists report concrete practices: start by interviewing everyone and running hackathons, office hours and inner-source to involve real developers (aim for… | ||
| Navigating the Platform Revolution: From Bottom-Up Innovation To Product Thinking | Antoine Bermon, Kanika Gera, Louis Bichard, Christina Kraus | 31m |
Platform teams report concrete wins and tactics: measure time-to-provision (weeks → target reductions), translate savings into dollars for leadership, and… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Paula Kennedy, Sophie Weston, Shweta Vohra, Naz Bilgic | 03m |
Thank you to sponsors named on the page and to everyone who presented; the session lists Cortex, Gipod, Northflank, Vulture as diamond sponsors and Cloudsmith… | ||
| Containerization Beyond CPUs – A Kubernetes-based Serverless Pl... | Kevin Cochrane | 05m |
Claims a Kubernetes-based serverless platform that separates model execution on GPUs from app logic on CPUs, using commodity containers and open standards to… | ||
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