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QCon London: In an Enterprise Ecosystem Your Platform Is Not an Island
In a talk at QCon London, Rachael Wonnacott explained the challenges in building a developer platform in an organisation with legacy processes and how a golden path leading to either a Kubernetes Hotel or a Public Cloud House might be necessary.
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QCon London 2025 Day 1: Parsing Data from Space, Developer Joy, Local First Apps, Platforms
The 19th annual QCon London conference was held at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of presentations by expert practitioners. Day One, scheduled on April 7th, 2025, included a keynote address by Dr. Kenneth Harris and presentations from five conference tracks.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2025: Real-World AI, Platform Engineering & DevEx Strategies
InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2025 (June 9-10, 2025) is where senior software developers, architects, and engineering leaders come together to tackle today’s most pressing challenges in AI adoption, platform engineering, and developer experience (DevEx). This event delivers insights from practitioners building and scaling modern software systems.
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How Engineering Teams Are Tackling AI, Platform Engineering & DevEx: InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2025
The InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2025 conference (June 9-10) will bring together senior software practitioners to share proven strategies for integrating AI, scaling resilient architectures, and optimizing developer experience - three key areas that will define engineering success in the next 18 months.
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QCon San Francisco 2024 Day 2: Shift-Left, GenAI, Engineering Productivity, Languages/Paradigms
The 18th annual QCon San Francisco conference was held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This five-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of three days of presentations and two days of workshops. Day Two, scheduled on November 19th, 2024, included a keynote address by Lizzie Matusov and presentations from four conference tracks.
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How to Delight Your Developers with User-Centric Platforms and Practices
By focusing on the users, platform development teams can ensure that they build a platform that tackles the true needs of developers, Ana Petkovska said at QCon London. In her talk, Delight Your Developers with User-Centric Platforms & Practices, she shared what their Developer Experience (DevEx) group looks like and what products and services they provide.
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Setting up a Data Mesh Organization
A data mesh organization: producers, consumers, and the platform. According to Matthias Patzak, the mission of the platform team is to make the lives of the producer and consumers simple, efficient and stress free. Data must be discoverable and understandable, trustworthy, and shared securely and easily across the organization.
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Enabling Fast Flow in Software Organizations
Resolving impediments to flow and removing unnecessary sources of cognitive load can make culture issues disappear in organisations, Nigel Kersten argued. Start with a clear strategy that is easy to communicate, then follow the path to creating stream-aligned teams and platform teams, he suggested.
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Ideas for Crafting Inclusive Public Software Platforms
Public software platforms should be inclusive and accessible to everyone, where people feel comfortable using them. It’s a big challenge to design a platform for everyone, from digital newbies to natives, with varying knowledge and experience of administrative processes. Government platforms must ensure their users' trust so that they feel safe using government services online.
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How Building a Platform as a Product Empowered Software Engineers
Platform engineering is about accelerating and empowering developers to deliver more product value faster over time. According to Jessica Andersson, most companies don’t invest in platform engineering until they reach a certain size. At QCon London she presented how their startup adopted platform engineering, what strategy they took, and what they did to gain platform adoption from developers.
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QCon London: a Tale of Team Topologies at m3ter
At QCon London 2024, Ricardo Nuno Almeida spoke about adapting Team Topologies at m3ter. Almeida, senior software engineering manager at m3ter, spoke about how adaptability proved crucial to success and ran through m3ter's journey of evolving team topologies to meet growth demands and changing priorities.
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Slack Optimizes Internal Development and Cost Efficiency with EKS and Karpenter
Slack has recently disclosed the architecture of its internal compute orchestration platform, epitomized by "Bedrock”, based on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Karpenter.
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QCon London: Curating a Developer Experience
In a talk at QCon London 2024 titled "Curating the Developer Experience," Andy Burgin discussed embracing Developer Experience (DevEx) as an operational philosophy at the betting company Flutter. Recognising the potential of DevEx to enhance productivity and foster collaboration and empathy between teams, Burgin explained how Flutter implemented and evolved their Developer Experience.
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Application Security Optimised for Engineering Productivity
Laura Bell Main presented a webinar on 2024 trends in application security. She called out a shift from siloed DevSecOps initiatives to building an understanding of dev friction, and presenting solutions which optimise engineering productivity. Nikki Robinson also recently spoke about the importance of taking a developer experience targeted approach to security platform engineering.
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Enabling Software Platform Adoption with Self-Service and User Engagement
In order to scale a platform, it has to become a self-service product with software engineers and managers engaged, taking advantage of new technologies. A stakeholder engagement program was established with senior engineers and managers across the company, explaining how the new tools can increase developers' productivity and team velocity.