Platform Engineering: The Why, What and How
Wednesday, 8:30 AM MDT
Platform engineering is the latest buzzword, in a industry that already has it's fair share. But what is platform engineering? How does it fit in with DevOps and Developer Experience (DevEx)? And is this something your organization even needs?
In this session we will aim to to dive deep into the world of platform engineering. We will see what platform engineering entails, how it is the logical succession to a successful DevOps implementation, and how it aims to improve the developer experience. We will also uncover the keys to building robust, sustainable platforms for the future
About Raju Gandhi
Raju is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, implementing full stack applications.
He provides a 360 view of the development cycle, is proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, as well an expert in infrastructure and tooling.
He has long been in the pursuit of hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, everything-as-code).
Raju is a published author, internationally known public speaker and trainer.
Raju can be found on Twitter as @looselytyped.
In his spare time, you will find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.