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Building Extensible Platforms - Hazel WeaklyPlatform Engineering Day Europe 20262026-03-23
Argues that extensible platforms succeed by choosing a few narrow protocols (think DNS, TCP, JSON) that evolve slowly, enabling wild diversity above and below…
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Coherent impact: The art of strategyStaffPlus New York 20252025-10-15
Claim of concrete wins: wrote the company hiring budget in one quarter, grew a platform org from eight people into five teams in two quarters, rebuilt the…
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Of Queens and Other Benevolent Dictators – the Role of Succession Planning in Open Source CommunityOpen Source Summit Europe 20252025-08-25
Argues that risk comes less from topic and more from attrition: a small core leaving breaks mature projects as badly as single-maintainer failures, with…
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So you want to hire engineering force multipliers?LDX3 London 20252025-06-16
Hiring these platform and DX force multipliers proves unusually hard and likely to burn hires out unless interview design and org signals align. The talk…
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Operationalizing Observability: The Invisible PartsObservability Day 20252025-04-01
Argues that success hinges on politics and small wins not flashy tech: secure a non-engineering champion, prove ROI by showing what already delivers value…
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So You Want To Hire for Platform Engineering?Platform Engineering Day 2025 - Europe2025-04-01
Practical hiring playbook: design an open book interview loop that allows internet and AI, measures after‑hire indicators, and ditch whiteboard puzzles; aim…
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Systems Thinking with Poisoned SystemsSREcon25 Americas2025-03-25
Argues that observability AI learns patterns not systems and fails when training data is data poisoning or missing; gives concrete failures: AI hallucinated…
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Panel: OpenTelemetry: Bridging Platform and EnablementObservability Day North America 20242024-11-12
Companies standardize on a managed stack and bootstrapped SDKs so most apps need no manual instrumentation, and an OTEL collector sidecar runs on pods and…
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Hacking The Pachyderm: Scaling Servers And PeoplePhilly ETE 20232023-04-11
Hachyderm scales from ~700 to 30,000 users in weeks and migrates a live distributed Mastodon deployment across the Atlantic with lift-and-shift migration to…
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Hacking the Pachyderm: Scaling Servers and PeopleSREcon23 Americas2023-03-21
Community instance grows 700 to 30,000 users in weeks, triggers transatlantic migration of a distributed Mastodon stack with zero data loss. Ops details…
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