Our talks

Building a platform requires you to map your architecture domain to cloud automation.

This session will be an exploration (with examples) of how the CNCF platform maturity model can be used as part of a toolbox to help guide organizations in progressing toward an improved platform engineering setup.

Step into the technical blueprint behind Convera's metamorphosis from a legacy financial services framework into a leading-edge FinTech entity. This session will delve into the architecture of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that became instrumental in their modernization initiative. Attendees will receive a granular overview of how strategically integrated tools and services within Convera’s platform have streamlined development, maximized efficiency, and upheld operational superiority.

Explore the role of OpenTelemetry (OTel) in enhancing observability and leveraging OTel signals and semantics for improved platform performance and reliability.

Learn how Cox Automotive’s shift to a cohesive API strategy with Apollo’s Federated GraphQL will unlock APIs as economic assets

In this session, learn observability best practices for building your internal platforms to ensure resiliency and measure adoption. Discover how to provide observability as a self-service for code deployed through the platform.

Discover how we broadened our API platform's focus to the public API ecosystem by adopting a end-user problem-solving mindset and creating effective stakeholder partnerships

This talk will explore how to create ephemeral pull request environments as code with Crossplane, a dedicated Argo CD instance, and a vCluster, a Pro Kubernetes cluster—all in less than one minute.

Explore NYT’s transition to Federated GraphQL: From monolithic architecture to a dynamic, self-serviced platform with improved API governance and observability insights.

UKG is pioneering the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), tailored to empower its engineers with efficient means to seamlessly navigate the complexities of modern and legacy technologies.

Is your internal platform meeting the expectations of your business? Are you looking to increase the value that your platform offers? This talk will offer suggestions on how inner sourcing can help.

Transforming tech narratives: Pivoting the conversation from 'platform-first' to business-aligned, how to drive stakeholder engagement for organizational success, not just technological innovation.

Imagine having a layered map for S3 storage, allowing you to interactively visualize objects by their prefix/class/cost/access/ data transfer/etc., in order to compose an optimal storage class strategy.

Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes (K8s) is hard to set up and manage. This talk will provide an actionable guide on how to set up multi-tenant clusters while balancing tenant isolation and tenant autonomy.

In this presentation, we’ll share stories of how several organizations built an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) around where developers spend the majority of their time; the development environment.

Explore the transformative journey to adopt platform engineering at AntGroup, one of the largest financial services corporations in the world, highlighting key strategies, challenges, and outcomes.

This talk unlocks practical tips to navigate internal dynamics and foster trust for platform adoption. Learn how to engage stakeholders, build trust, and drive adoption.

Need a self-hosted, fully supported cloud development environment that runs on pretty much any architecture? Check out Coder!

Discover how to create an intent-driven Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using KusionStack. This talk showcases the reference architecture that connects the different infrastructures, developers, and the business.

This talk will cover the impact you should see across your team and organization, and the benefits a platform could bring you as a platform engineer.

Seth Demsey demonstrates how to accelerate developer productivity without introducing unnecessary cognitive load by pairing IaC and CI/CD tools with a leading developer portal.

We have ready access to powerful cloud hardware, and our apps have extreme data requirements. However, we're still scaling our data infra in the same way. Let's rethink how we scale data infra.

This session will show how a FinServ platform team accelerated the adoption of cloud-native technologies by simplifying developer experience while enforcing governance at scale.

Kargo is the next step in your Kubernetes application delivery evolution aimed to provide stage-to-stage promotion using GitOps without bespoke automation and CI pipelines.

Is product thinking the secret weapon for your platforms' success? This talk highlights the benefits of a product approach in the platform engineering space and lessons learned from real-world workshops.

Harness your GPUs for Python ML with serverless efficiency! Build a Golang tool to schedule tasks, monitor your GPUs, optimize costs, and maximize utilization. Empower MLEs to build effortlessly.

In this talk, we’ll discuss how to accelerate code delivery with cost-effective CI/CD pipelines. Optimize for AI-powered dev workflows, streamline releases, and maintain quality. Join our expert-led session to learn best practices.

In this talk, we will show how we have built our own logging solution that handles terabytes of logs daily, reduces costs to a fraction, and better handles the complex needs of our growing company.

This talk shares a journey describing how Foxtel, a traditional broadcast company, navigated through the cloud landscape from 2011 to 2021, searching for the best microservice platform.

Let's dig into building a full platform solution on top of the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF) and how it can help you drastically lower your development time without adding new complexity to your ecosystem.

This session will discuss how MiQ reduced organizational costs/GP by 20%. It will also cover how we measure and track the tech and infra cost to tie it back to the company's revenue.

Learn how developers at Spotify use GitOps to provision infrastructure, run builds, deploy services, and set up monitoring — all in Git, right alongside the service code.

Kubernetes (K8s) package management needs an overhaul. Text-based templating is not enough; together let us explore what an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) package management solution of the future for K8s might look like.

In this presentation, we'll explore the potential for women in platform engineering, highlighting how their unique perspectives can drive innovation and change.This session will address the current underrepresentation of women in this field, strategies for overcoming fears, and parallels between platform engineering and product development.

Intent realization did wonders for us in reducing friction and improving developer experience. This talk reflects our learnings and the need for tooling beyond getting started with docs and YAML configs.

MLOps stands for machine learning operations. It comprises a set of practices and tools that combine DevOps principles to the development cycle of artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

Join this talk to learn the missteps we’ve seen organizations make on their journey to build and adopt Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and the cultural shifts you can make to avoid them.

Join me for a fun and engaging story of an amazingly successful case study featuring a company-wide platform that began without a funded team.

This talk will discuss transforming public sector teams for cloud-native success and strategies for operational excellence in platform engineering.

Supply chain security needs to be integrated into CI/CD Pipelines. This session will cover practical and useful techniques that many enterprises can use.