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

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2023. #GOTOcon #YOW
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Lesley Cordero - Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times ‪@clesleycode‬

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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

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