Ajay Chankramath — author of The Platform Engineer’s Handbook — joins Kaspar von Grünberg to unpack why he wrote a 14-chapter, code-first practitioner's guide instead of another theory-heavy platform book.
In this talk, Trisha identifies issues that slow down developers when writing, running and debugging tests, and look at tools that can help developers with each of these problems. There's live coding, analysis of social media poll results, an overview of solutions in this space, "best practice" recommendations, and machine learning will be mentioned at some point.
Let’s be honest, the tech we use today is amazing, but it can also be complex.
It’s only natural that teams want to build platforms that hide this complexity to improve productivity, avoid mistakes, and reduce cognitive load. But they may be misled to believe that the more complexity they hide, the better their platform is. Instead, they end up creating dangerous illusions!
This talk reflects on two decades of building complex distributed systems, highlighting where abstractions helped and where illusions led to major disappointments.
Software teams often face a false choice: move fast and accumulate technical debt, or build the perfect system and miss the deadline. But there may be a third path, the Best Simple System for Now (BSSN).
This session introduces a pragmatic yet principled approach to software design: systems that are as simple as possible but no simpler. You’ll learn how to design code that is robust, change-friendly, and fit for purpose, while avoiding both gold-plating and corner-cutting.
Through practical examples, we explore how to manage complexity, embrace uncertainty, and make sound decisions using concepts like Cost of Delay and RAROC.
Every generation gets a new interface:
⌨️ Keyboard
🖱️ Mouse
📱 Touchscreen
What's next?
Simon Brown explains that the C4 Model started not as a grand design theory, but as a practical answer to an embarrassing problem. Furthermore, he answers the question on how to handle microservices in C4 and explains the important distinction between modeling and diagramming.
In this session, Sam Newman interviews Kief Morris and Adrian Mouat, both experts in their field. They explore the current reality of security in the container world, how infrastructure automation is impacted by latest trends, and whether platform teams are actually working.
Join me in this deep dive where I'll explain all the code changes and tricks that took me from the reference implementation which processes the billion records in 4+ minutes, to processing everything in under 2 seconds.
Who knew Java could be this fast?
Jake Warner, co-founder and CEO of Cycle.io, traces a pattern he's watched repeat itself since his OpenStack days: a new orchestration technology arrives, developers adopt it enthusiastically, it grows in complexity, and organizations eventually ask whether managing it is really a core competency.
He made a decade-long bet that Kubernetes would follow the same arc — and built Cycle as the answer: a distributed control plane that lets companies own their own infrastructure and compute while still getting a clean, platform-like experience on top of it.
Learn how to integrate model-based systems engineering (MBSE) with mission-driven requirements to create a connected framework that delivers reliable solutions designed with key objectives.
This talk is a look at some of the parallels between Dungeons and Dragons, and software development.
WebAssembly started as a technology tailored to web browsers and is becoming popular as a server-side technology as well. The next step is for Wasm to become a powerful tool for cloud-native applications. When combined with Kubernetes, WebAssembly can revolutionize application deployment, security, and resource efficiency in ways traditional containers cannot.