Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering

QCon New York 2023

Session Platform Engineering

Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering

Thursday Jun 15 / 04:10PM EDT, Salon D

Abstract

Platform engineering isn’t supposed to be just another name for SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, or backend software engineering teams; but if you aren’t careful, that’s what you’ll get. Let’s talk about how platform engineering teams are different from other engineering teams, and some of the ways they run into traps and other troubles.

Topics

Platform Engineering Architecture Observability Staff Plus Engineering Platform
76% senior dev or higher
1:11 speaker ratio
60+ practitioners

QCon New York 2023 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.

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