Organizational Sustainability with Platform Engineering • Lesley Cordero • YOW! 2023

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2023. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Lesley Cordero - Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times @clesleycode RESOURCES https://twitter.com/clesleycode https://linkedin.com/in/lesleycordero https://www.lesleycordero.com ABSTRACT Engineering organizations often face the consequences of building software in a way that prioritizes short-term gains over long-term ones. This has a lot of sociotechnical consequences, including tech debt, retention issues, and, ultimately, business risk. This talk focuses on how Platform Engineering can drive sustainability through its DevOps based principles, strong support system, and standardized shared architecture. We’ll begin by reviewing what organizational sustainability is and how Platform Engineering can facilitate it. The rest of the talk will be split into three primary sections: • The sociotechnical principles provided by DevOps • The robust support structures that enable platform adoption and faster delivery. • The Platform architecture, its principles, common tensions, and a framework for how to build platform architectures that enable product engineers to do their best work. By the end, these principles and practices will tie together to form a concrete case study on how organizations can benefit from Platform Engineering teams. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:25 Defining Platform Engineering 04:19 Scaling organizations with Platform Engineering 04:43 Platform principles 09:19 Communal support 13:35 Platform architecture 27:06 Examples/Case studies 42:06 Putting it all together 45:06 Defining a "Platform" 45:46 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/sydney-2023/sessions/2802 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Daniel Bryant, James Gough & Matthew Auburn • Mastering API Architecture • https://amzn.to/3YvVXOF Daniel Bryant & Abraham Marín-Pérez • Continuous Delivery in Java • https://amzn.to/3DMBonT Mauricio Salatino • Platform Engineering on Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3X14qZK https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #PlatformEngineering #DORAmetrics #DevOps #DORA #DeveloperProductivity #Sustainability #Observability #CLI #ObservabilityPlatform #eBPF #DevOps #SRE #ChaosEngineering #LesleyCordero #YOWcon 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