PlatformCon 2025 Live Day NYC
as the organisers put it
Join 600+ platform engineers at the Live Day NYC: A full day of talks and panels from the top platform engineering leaders and a hands-on workshop program.
who it's for
platform engineers, platform engineering leaders, engineering managers, developer experience engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, developer productivity engineers
topics
multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters; namespace-as-a-service; automated CI/CD pipelines; GraphQL subgraph performance; agentic observability and debugging; Model Context Protocol integration; reusable infrastructure-as-code modules; shift-left security with static analysis; developer onboarding and golden paths; platform-as-product metrics (time to value); GitHub Copilot agents via Actions; Temporal workflows in production
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Two sides of the platform coin with operator's and customer's voices | Sarah Duncan, Ahmed Bebars | 26m |
New York Times platform engineers build a multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster that delivers namespace-as-a-service and automatic GitHub repos plus CI/CD so teams… | ||
| The Platform Engineer | Kelsey Hightower | 25m |
Career advice grounded in concrete engineering moves: learns Bash then Go, builds a CLI called zap tool to mass-delete ISOs, wires Jira to Puppet to create an… | ||
| Fireside chat | Kelsey Hightower, Kaspar von Grünberg | 32m |
Argues that agentic AI adds a new interface but not new fundamentals: platforms must expose real APIs to legacy systems via things like Model Context Protocol… | ||
| Beating the buzzer: Creating developer velocity at the NBA | Tony Tran | 17m |
Platform engineering at the NBA claims 400% developer velocity, release cycles under an hour, and a 50% drop in incidents while supporting apps in 200+… | ||
| Common platform team mistakes and how to avoid them | Camille Fournier | 25m |
Platform teams that survive and scale write meaningful software (not just run open source or hand out infra) and require operational ownership of critical… | ||
| Fostering developer autonomy: Culture-driven platform engineering | Preeti Somal | 27m |
Seven concrete platform strategies: define a crisp mission, get ridiculously easy to get started onboarding (Yahoo’s Openhouse example), score early wins by… | ||
| Platform as a Product: Mindset, milestones, metrics | Yej Fakiyesi, Sarah Duncan, Philip Eskelin, Mallory Haigh | 43m |
Argues platforms must behave like software products with roadmaps, customers and ROI, not just tooling; teams measure time to value and adoption rate, track… | ||
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