Presentation: Practices of Platform Engineering
Abstract
Agile teams in enterprises are constantly under pressure to rapidly deliver high-value features whilst meeting the deadlines and maintaining the product quality and stability. One of the main reasons for this is the time required to be spent on setting up the foundational platform capabilities which at times are under estimated. If each development team creates its own platform, the whole enterprise winds up with a large, complex architecture that is difficult to maintain, hard to staff engineers and brittle to operate.
The preferred future for enterprise IT organizations is to invest in a shared Platform Engineering function whose charter is to support application development teams with a platform or set of platforms that they can build on top of. Platform engineering team empowers organizations to reduce lead times to utilize common services and embrace constant change in technology.
This talks presents various approaches on how a platform engineering team can lay the digital foundation.