Platform Engineering Day Europe 2024
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 Platform Engineering Day’s YouTube channel.
who it's for
platform engineers, developer platform engineers, engineering managers, platform product managers, site reliability engineers, cloud architects, devops engineers
topics
kcp single global control plane; multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms; internal developer platforms (IDP); admission controllers for compliance; Crossplane infrastructure composition; GitOps with Argo or Flux; onboarding UX and progressive disclosure; platform-as-a-product and product thinking; OpenTelemetry tracing to Honeycomb; AI-powered paved road platforms
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Paula Kennedy, Hazem Hemied | 04m |
Event origin traces back to conversations at KubeCon Amsterdam and a proposal coauthored with Stacy Potter that the CNCF accepts so this day exists as a… | ||
| Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs! | Abby Bangser, Whitney Lee | 21m |
Argues that interface choice, not just backend polish, drives platform adoption and gives four concrete decision axes: autonomy, contextual distance… | ||
| Beyond Platform Thinking at Ritchie Brothers - Build Things No One... | Bryan Oliver, Ranbir Chawla | 32m |
Platform enforces “compliance at the point of change” with admission controllers (Gatekeeper/OPA) that verify CI artifacts before cluster admission, running… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Blueprints of Innovation: Engineering Paved Paths for a User... | Ahmed Bebars | 06m |
A multi-tenant developer platform on centralized Kubernetes that scaffolds a full repo, CI/CD pipelines, runtime, cloud resources and ingress in 5–15 minute… | ||
| TAG App Delivery Platforms Working Group Update | Colin Griffin | 11m |
Update from the TAG App Delivery Platforms Working Group outlines concrete outputs: a published contribution framework and GitHub publication workflow that… | ||
| Building a Platform Engineering API Layer with kcp | Marvin Beckers | 27m |
kcp is a CNCF Sandbox project that builds a single global control plane using etcd to host many virtual Kubernetes APIs, exposing logical clusters as… | ||
| Panel: The Platform Rock-Paper-Scissors: Build, Adopt, Buy | Victor Araujo, Jorge Lainfiesta, Jinhong Brejnholt, Leena Mooneeram, Edgaras Petovradžius | 43m |
Practical decision rules and concrete tradeoffs dominate: choose vendors when a product clearly outperforms internal work and you need to move fast, prefer… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Breaking the Mold: Unveiling Anti-Architectural Patterns in... | Vamshi Samudrala | 08m |
Identifies concrete anti-patterns that cause reduced maintainability, scalability bottlenecks and elevated technical debt, listing over-centralization and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Empowering Giants: Guide Your Enterprise with CNOE in Operational... | Engin Diri | 08m |
CNOE presents a pragmatic framework that maps enterprise needs to specific OSS choices, provides a reference architecture on AWS and a reference… | ||
| Designing for Success: UX Principles for Internal Developer Platforms | Kirsten Schwarzer | 28m |
Argues that weekly think-aloud studies (30–60 minutes) uncover real onboarding friction, shows how to map the onboarding journey and cut cognitive load with… | ||
| Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking | Samantha Coffman | 28m |
Argues that adopting product thinking turns platform work into measurable outcomes, not feature lists, and shows concrete practices used with Backstage at… | ||
| Building an AI-Powered, Paved Road Platform with Cloud-Native OSS | Todd Ekenstam, Avni Sharma | 24m |
Intuit runs 3,000+ services across 3155 clusters and 16,000+ namespaces and builds an AI‑native paved‑road platform that maps an OAM‑inspired app spec to real… | ||
| Unlocking Innovation: How NatWest Bank Uses Cloud Native Tools... | Chris Plank, Derik Evangelista | 33m |
NatWest builds a platform-as-a-product that wires Backstage into a GitOps toolchain (GitLab CI + Flux) and Kubernetes, exposing reusable “promises” as APIs… | ||
| To K8S and Beyond – Maturing Your Platform Engineering Initiative | Nicki Watt | 34m |
Explains using the CNCF Platform Maturity Model to map five concrete aspects — investment, adoption, interface, operations and measurement — and shows a path… | ||
| Panel: Navigating the Path to Platform Engineering... | Abby Bangser, Areti Panou, Cortney Nickerson, William Rizzo, Aparna | 35m |
Organizations report platform-as-product work built on Kubernetes and GCP, with one platform supporting 30,000 developers, but adoption fails if developers… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Paula Kennedy, Hazem Hemied | 02m |
The day ends with thanks to every speaker and attendee, sponsors listed as diamond, platinum and startups, and sessions recording by Geometry. Organizers ask… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Crossplane - The Best Kept Secret in Platform Engineering | Bassam Tabbara | 10m |
Argues that platform teams should adopt a strict API mandate: Kubernetes and Crossplane become the required control plane, not a homegrown stack; Crossplane… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Crossplane - The Best Kept Secret in Platform Engineering | Bassam Tabbara | 05m |
Positions Crossplane as the control plane that models cloud APIs and composes infrastructure into reusable building blocks, enabling teams to expose infra as… | ||
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