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

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2023. #GOTOcon #YOW Lesley Cordero - Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times @clesleycode RESOURCES 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: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Daniel Bryant, James Gough & Matthew Auburn • Mastering API Architecture • Daniel Bryant & Abraham Marín-Pérez • Continuous Delivery in Java • Mauricio Salatino • Platform Engineering on Kubernetes • #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 Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.