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Platform engineering has undergone a significant transformation since Evan Bottcher's foundational 2018 article. What began as "a foundation of self-service APIs, tools, services, knowledge and support" has evolved into a distinct discipline focused on enhancing developer experience and delivering measurable outcomes.
This talk explores the pivotal shifts in platform engineering over seven years, contrasting the 2018 landscape with today's mature ecosystem. We'll examine how developer experience has emerged as a central goal, replacing the earlier focus on reducing "backlog coupling." I'll share insights from implementing platform transformations at global enterprises, including a case study of restructuring a fintech's approach with dedicated Developer Success Teams.
Whether you're building your first platform or evolving an existing one, you'll gain practical strategies to navigate common anti-patterns like "Field of Dreams" platforms and overengineered workflows. Join us to explore how platform engineering has matured from an emerging concept to an essential practice that drives organizational success through enhanced developer experience.
The Thinnest Viable Platform (TVP) is all about giving teams just enough to move fast—without unnecessary complexity. But here’s the catch: if you don’t actively prune and evolve your platform, it will bloat. Every well-intentioned addition, every quick fix, every new tool can quietly nudge it from “helpful” to “hindrance.”
In this talk, we’ll explore lessons learned from helping teams build and scale platforms at different stages with a focus on trying to minimise complexity and maximise value. We’ll cover why platforms naturally accumulate weight, how to spot the signs of bloat, and—most importantly—strategies, tips and tricks for keeping things light and useful!
Development environments are shifting from static, local setups to dynamic, cloud-based systems managed as infrastructure.
In this session, Eric Paulsen (Field CTO, Coder) explores how platform and DevOps teams are building secure, scalable, and policy-driven development environments that improve consistency, reduce friction, and support modern delivery needs.
He’ll also look ahead to how lightweight AI agents are beginning to assist within these environments - automating setup, enforcing compliance, and supporting developers in real time.
Takeaways:
- Why cloud-based dev environments are replacing local setups
- How to manage dev environments as scalable infrastructure
- Patterns for secure provisioning and lifecycle management
- Where AI agents can enhance setup, support, and compliance
CTO of global engineering consultancy ClearRoute, Sarndeep Nijjar, takes to the stage to answer these questions, sharing insights from the new ClearRoute State of the Route To Live Report 2025 that will be exclusively released to PlatformCon 2025 community first.
Analysing data from over £2bn of annual tech spend across multiple industries, the report highlights concrete, practical steps for engineering leaders to deliver products faster, cheaper, and safer.
Sarndeep is joined by the Group Executive and CIO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Gavin Monroe, to introduce a proven framework to accelerate and derisk innovation: ClearRoute’s proprietary Quality Cloud Engineering framework.
Gavin shares challenges, interventions, and lessons from CBA’s own transformation journey, which saw them accelerate app delivery and unlock millions of dollars in savings over 12-months.
Finally, we turn our eye to the future, exploring how AI Agents are changing RTL and how teams can capitalise on the positive impacts while mitigating negatives.
It’s not one to miss!
ClearRoute is a global engineering consultancy that helps enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is one of the leading banks in Australia, serving more than 17 million customers.
Platform teams are under pressure to integrate AI capabilities but often lack a structured framework for evaluation. This interactive workshop provides a practical decision-making methodology.
Working in small groups, you'll learn to evaluate and prioritize AI use cases for platform engineering by creating your own "technology radar" that classifies potential investments into adopt, trial, assess, or hold categories. We'll cover evaluation criteria including business value, implementation effort, and technology readiness, with real-world examples.
By the end of the workshop, you'll have created a customized AI radar for your organization and a structured approach to making strategic AI investment decisions for your platform team.
Join Daniel Gallo from JetBrains for a hands-on workshop exploring what modern, developer-friendly CI/CD looks like in practice. Follow a real-world project as we go from repository to production-ready pipeline in a short time. Learn how to streamline your setup, accelerate feedback loops, and reduce maintenance headaches along the way.
You’ll get to see and try out TeamCity Pipelines, JetBrains’ new CI/CD tool built with the developer experience at its core. Bring your laptop and follow along as we cover best practices, pipeline optimization techniques, and tips to improve your development workflow – no matter what tools you’re currently using.
Terraform is arguably the most widely adopted IaC tool in use today, with good reason. In addition to being multi-cloud/data center, its early embrace of declarative config vastly simplified the job of managing infrastructure. But your platform engineers will be very quick to point out that they need to do things that are hard to do using Terraform alone. They sometimes need to schedule Terraform actions. They might need to apply configs in a particular order. Having humans in the loop can make processes long-running and harder to manage. And, of course, infra is usually widely distributed and not always available when management is needed.
Already widely used by platform engineers across a wide range of verticals, Temporal addresses all of these challenges. We’ll show you how.
Join us for an interactive 1-hour workshop where you'll explore how secure, self-service development workflows can enhance developer productivity, automation, and security by design. Guided by EMEA CTO Eric, you’ll take part in a hands-on coding challenge, learning how to streamline development while maintaining consistency, security, and efficiency.
Whether you're looking to improve self-service capabilities or refine your approach to secure development environments, this session will provide practical insights and hands-on experience in a collaborative setting.
Schedule
Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq., London
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