The Ultimate Cloud Platform Team Topology • Ben Ellerby • GOTO 2024

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOams https://gotoams.nl Ben Ellerby - Founder of aleio & AWS Serverless Hero RESOURCES https://twitter.com/EllerbyBen https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminellerby https://github.com/BenEllerby https://medium.com/@bene_37069 ABSTRACT As teams build with more cloud-native technologies, they aim to work towards a higher rate of flow of features into production, and take responsibility for not only the application code but the infrastructure that starts to be coupled to application logic. Team Topologies has become a popular model for organising teams in these environments. The role of Platform teams to enable other teams to deliver autonomously has evolved rapidly alongside cloud-native approaches like Serverless, changing the way teams collaborate and build. In this talk we’ll look at the characteristics of highly effective Platform teams, how composable IaC solutions like CDK (Cloud Development Kit) enable Platform teams to adopt a product release cycle and the embedding of guardrails, best practices and sensible defaults. We’ll also look at the role of Hexagonal architecture to enable composable testing patterns for the IaC building blocks and the impact to release cycles. This talk will take a step back to the organisational approach as well as deep dive on code examples from a platform team building Serverless CDK constructs used by a team of over 150 engineers. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:12 Agenda 01:48 Cloud-native "serverless-first" utopia 03:42 Why is it hard to scale cloud teams? 06:36 It all starts with team structure (Team Toplogies) 07:57 Enabled through technology (CDK) 13:17 Conclusion 14:38 Outro Read the full abstract here: https://gotoams.nl/2024/sessions/3130 RECOMMENDED BOOKS David Anderson, Marck McCann & Michael O'Reilly • The Value Flywheel Effect • https://amzn.to/3VcHxC7 Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices • https://amzn.to/3WfNKfM Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS • https://amzn.to/3hJzEUM Michael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang • https://amzn.to/3G5e8ST Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts • https://amzn.to/3v4pKQS Gerardus Blokdyk • Event-Driven Architecture EDA • https://amzn.to/3FOfUHE James Urquhart • Flow Architectures • https://amzn.to/3Tyz8cY https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #PlatformTeams #TeamTopologies #CloudPlatform #EDA #EventDrivenArchitecture #SoftwareArchitecture #AWS #EventDriven #Serverless #CloudNative #EventDesign #BenEllerby CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1