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Platform Engineering for Everyone - Success Can’t Be Coded
Max Korbacher shares why internal developer platforms fail and how engineering leaders can build successful, product-minded platforms by focusing on people and process over raw technology.
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The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect
Ruth Linehan discusses Momento’s 3-year migration from Kotlin to Rust, explaining how the borrow checker speeds up delivery velocity and why Rust lowers overall engineering costs in production.
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Road to Compliance: Will Your Internal Users Hate Your Platform Team?
Davide de Paolis shares how to scale internal compliance and platform engineering without breaking developer velocity, detailing automated feedback loops and "minimum viable governance" on AWS.
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Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
Anirudh Mendiratta and Benjamin Fedorka explain how Netflix handles massive traffic storms using service-level prioritized load shedding and client-side attempt budgets to protect critical path APIs.
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Write-Ahead Intent Log: a Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale
Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel explain why they outgrew traditional CDC at scale. They share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) using a proxy layer to decouple data replication.
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Confidently Automating Changes across a Diverse Fleet
Netflix engineer Casey Bleifer explains how the company is automating fleet-wide code changes and migrations at scale, driving adoption timelines down from months to mere days with confidence.
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Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix
Netflix Engineers Vidhya Arvind and Shawn Liu discuss the pillars of safe, large-scale data deletion. They explain strategies to eliminate data ghosts and manage tombstone resource contention.
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From Legacy to Sovereignty: Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering
Sergiu Petean explains how to navigate the evolution from legacy systems to platform engineering. He shares data-driven insights on balancing DORA metrics, compliance, and strategic AI integration.
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From VR to Flat Screens: Bridging the Input and Immersion Gap
Dany Lepage explains how Lucky VR scaled "Vegas Infinite" from Meta Quest to PS5, PC, and mobile. He shares the technical hurdles of cross-play, dual avatar systems, and the "product fit" trap.
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Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity
Randy Shoup shares how eBay doubled engineering productivity but failed to pivot the business. He explains the technical wins of the Velocity Initiative and the cultural hurdles that remained.
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Platform Engineering as a Practice of Sociotechnical Excellence
Lesley Cordero explains how platform engineering serves as a sociotechnical solution for scaling orgs. She shares strategies for joint optimization, communal learning, and distributed leadership.
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Your Platform is Not an Island: Embracing Evolution in Your Ecosystem
Rachael Wonnacott explains why DevEx is a lever, not the destination. Learn to balance DevEx, productivity & business value by aligning platform design with a unique organizational ecosystem.