Platform Engineering Day NA 2024
2024-11-12
Salt Lake City, United States
who it's for
platform engineers, developer experience engineers, engineering managers, site reliability engineers, cloud infrastructure engineers, developer advocates, platform product managers
topics
Crossplane compositions and custom functions; vcluster multi-tenant Kubernetes; workload-first DSL; GPU Kubernetes with RDMA; Backstage catalog and scaffolder; Crossplane and Dapr integration; policy as code for platforms; platform maturity model and checklist; developer platform adoption metrics; platform marketing and evangelism
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Paula Kennedy, Stacey Potter | 07m |
Welcome and housekeeping outline announces event logistics: plat day is the official hashtag, captioning and translation are available, and the Linux… | ||
| Platform Working Group Update | Atulpriya Sharma, Abby Bangser, Colin Griffin | 10m |
Updates on concrete outputs: a platform white paper that defines interfaces and capabilities, a published platform maturity model used by companies to track… | ||
| Navigating the No-Code to Full-Code Spectrum - a Platform Engineering Journey | Jared Watts, Maximilian Blatt | 22m |
Begins with a Kubernetes control plane that exposes cloud resources as CRDs via Crossplane, which initially forces developers to manage hundreds of thousands… | ||
| Promoting Common Standards Without Sacrificing Tenant Autonomy | Lukas Gentele | 05m |
Platform engineers present a practical middle ground: V cluster spins a certified Kubernetes control plane inside a pod per tenant, giving teams full cluster… | ||
| Make Workloads, Not Infrastructure | Will Stewart | 06m |
Argues that teams should stop building infra and instead define a workload-first DSL that encodes microservices, databases, queues and jobs; criticizes Helm… | ||
| Containerization – It’s Not Just for CPUs Anymore: Introducin... | Nathan Goulding | 08m |
Vultr claims a unified CPU+GPU Kubernetes platform running in 32 data centers with sub‑40ms reach to 90% of the world and a 100% uptime guarantee, using… | ||
| Application Networking is Broken - Platform Engineering to the... | Jason Lovelace | 07m |
Argues that current networking paradigms block developer velocity and that platform engineering must provide an application-centric control plane with policies… | ||
| Portals and Platforms, Two Ps in a Pod? How Good Interfaces Make for Good Operability | Jorge Lainfiesta, Abby Bangser | 27m |
Platforms built on a Backstage portal plus orchestration reduce long-term toil: teams discover vulnerable services via the catalog API, disable a bad Backstage… | ||
| Are You Really Ready to Adopt a Platform? | Atulpriya Sharma | 12m |
Calls out a Readiness illusion: modern tools, desire for efficiency, and strong architects do not equal organizational readiness. Provides a four-point… | ||
| The Hidden Discipline: Marketing Secrets for Engineering Platforms | Erica Hughberg | 11m |
Platform teams in large enterprises (hundreds–thousands of devs) must treat platforms as products and use three concrete marketing moves: build a movement by… | ||
| Measuring the Impact of Platform Engineering | Mallory Haigh, Nathen Harvey, Kirk Hoganson, Heather Joslyn, Guillaume Caya Letourneau | 33m |
Panel reports developer productivity up in orgs with platforms but finds the surprising counterexample of throughput and stability down in software delivery… | ||
| Crossing the Chasm: The Journey of The New York Times IDP from Conception to Early Majority | David Grizzanti | 29m |
The New York Times builds an internal developer platform that onboards a service to Dev in 10 minutes (security manual gate slows full automation), runs on… | ||
| Harnessing Crossplane and Dapr for DevOps: FICO’s Platform Engineering Journey to Increase Velocity | Hugo Smitter | 30m |
Proof-of-concept integrates Crossplane Functions with Dapr service invocation to generate dynamic CompositeResources (xplatform tenant → Pulsar… | ||
| Secure Your Systems the Better Way Using Policy-as-Code | Adriana Villela, Marino Wijay | 23m |
Policy as code means translating human security decisions into YAML that is version-controlled and enforced by CI/CD so deployments get just-in-time… | ||
| Innovating at Scale: Building and Managing Modern Developer Platform in U.S. Bank | Poonam Garg, Carrie Pommier | 27m |
U.S. Bank builds an internal developer platform called Shield Platform that standardizes pipelines, centralizes logging/observability, and enforces… | ||
| If You Build It, They Will Come - a Platform Modernization Journey | Ken Heaslip, Chloe Clarke | 26m |
Built a company-first cloud platform that replaces on-prem Docker Swarm/Rancher with Amazon EKS and a suite of tools to fix scalability, observability… | ||
| Developer Platform Consoles Should Be Dumb | Viktor Farcic | 27m |
Argument: developer portals must be dumb — they should discover CRD schemas from Kubernetes instead of forcing engineers to hand‑rewrite hundreds of lines of… | ||
| Platform Adoption Strategies: Critical Roles When Investing... | Danielle Cook, Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Simon Forster | 27m |
Panel argues platforms must cut developer overload and tie directly to business KPIs: link number of new features to ARR, map reduced downtime to customer… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Vijay Chintha, Paula Kennedy | 02m |
Event closes with sponsor shoutouts and logistics: Diamond sponsors IBM, Loft North, flake, welchire and Platinum sponsors cortex, gitpod, port, Cento are… | ||
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