The day 2 hangover: What to do after the platform party ends

Often, new platform teams start by building for day 1 concerns: new apps, experiments, and cool tech. But that success can be short-lived. When building platforms, it is easy to focus only on creating things, a platform party. But as time goes by, the day 2 hangover becomes hard to ignore.

At Veeam, platform-building efforts were so prolific that app teams had to combine hundreds of components. The day 1 experience was amazing, but day 2 concerns had been ignored. Operating, maintaining, and demonstrating the platform's value became increasingly challenging.

In this talk, Nitish and Cat share how the team significantly reduced the cost of managing platform resources and freed up time to deliver real business value without a complete rebuild.