Platform Engineering for Private Cloud
Submitted to KCD Czech & Slovak 2025 (Bratislava) on . Rejected .
- Level
- Intermediate - attendees should be familiar with the subject
- Length
- Solo Presentation: 35-minute presentation, limited to 1 speaker
- Track
- Platform Engineering
Abstract, as submitted
“Platform engineering” is the art of building and managing the infrastructure that powers your applications.It’s a little bit of cloud, a handful of DevOps, a pinch of SRE, and a thick glaze of product management. While platform engineering is “nothing new,” it’s only now being widely talked about and just barely practices in most large organizations. This talk will first cover what platform engineering is and why it’s valuable, then it will cover how to apply and adapt platform engineering in large enterprises, particularly in private cloud scenarios. The challenges here come from working with existing processes and IT stacks. Most organizations can’t simply start from scratch, and, indeed, it’d be a terrible idea to throw out all the stuff that’s currently making all the money. If you support your organization’s apps, platform engineering is something you’ll probably be doing soon. So, come hear how your peers are doing it and share your experiences with us.
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