Organizational Sustainability with Platform Engineering

Explore how Platform Engineering drives organizational sustainability in this YOW! Australia 2023 conference talk. Dive into the sociotechnical principles of DevOps, robust support structures for platform adoption, and standardized shared architecture. Learn how these elements combine to address tech debt, retention issues, and business risk. Examine real-world case studies demonstrating the benefits of Platform Engineering teams. Gain insights into scaling organizations, implementing platform principles, fostering communal support, and designing effective platform architectures. Discover strategies for enabling product engineers to excel and achieve long-term organizational success through sustainable software development practices.

Intro
Defining Platform Engineering
Scaling organizations with Platform Engineering
Platform principles
Communal support
Platform architecture
Examples/Case studies
Putting it all together
Defining a "Platform"
Outro