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Platform Engineering in Practice

From Foundations to the Next Phase of Developer Platforms

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  • For beginners and advanced users
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From Foundations to the Next Phase of Developer Platforms

Modern software organizations don’t scale through tooling alone — they scale through well-designed developer platforms.

Platform Engineering has evolved from a niche practice into a strategic capability. In this course, you’ll learn how internal platforms reduce cognitive load, accelerate delivery, and create clarity in increasingly complex cloud-native environments.

Drawing from a decade of real-world experience, conference talks, and expert articles, this course helps you move beyond theory and into practical platform design.

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Why Platform Engineering Matters Now

Cloud-native architectures, API-first strategies, and distributed systems have dramatically increased system complexity. Developer productivity no longer depends solely on code quality — it depends on the quality of the platform beneath it.

In this course, you will explore:

  • The fundamentals and core concepts of Platform Engineering

  • The API-first shift and its impact on modern architectures

  • How internal platforms reduce developer cognitive load

  • Why some developer platforms fail — and how to avoid common pitfalls

  • The evolving relationship between Platform Engineering and DevOps

  • Emerging trends shaping the next phase of developer platforms

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  • 5 Sessions | Duration: 4 hour and 30 minutes
  • 5 Articles | Duration: 4 hours

Platform Engineering didn’t suddenly become something else. It quietly became more than we initially planned for. For several years now, Platform Engineering has proven itself as a practical and effective response to a very real problem: how to improve flow, reliability, and developer productivity in increasingly complex systems.

This article examines how platform engineering and an API-first mindset are enabling enterprises to replace legacy applications with modern, resilient services, using secure APIs, CI/CD, observability and internal developer platforms to reduce risk, minimize disruption and turn modernization into a continuous driver of innovation and business agility.

Let’s look at one of the pressing issues that development teams are facing today, the cognitive load of managing infrastructure, and how Platform Engineering can help alleviate this burden.

You often hear the provocative statement: “DevOps is dead.” This is a false claim, merely intended to draw attention to a current trend: platform engineering. In this article, we’ll shed light on the current problems facing DevOps and developers and describe platform engineering as a solution.

As platform engineering has evolved into an art form, the DevOps “one team” drive has somewhat dissolved again. This can mean that some of the hard work to remove the Dev/Ops boundary has fallen by the wayside.

Platform Engineering is the new hype on the block. But we’ve been doing this for some 10 years, we just didn’t call it Platform Engineering. We provided self service enabled platforms with guardrails for development teams to consume. Some did successfully, some didn’t … This talk will help you learn from the mistakes we made along the road and but also from the successes. Spoiler: it’s mostly about communication.

A look at current trends in platform engineering: creating platform teams, creating shared resources, supporting developer teams, creating and implementing standards, automatic CI/CD delivery pipelines, internal developer portals, data governance, API governance, AI adoption and impacts, and developer productivity metrics. We look at all the key themes and how platform engineering practices are evolving.
In the last few years, we have seen a rise in the usage of the term Platform Engineering, but what does that actually mean and how does it compare to DevOps? In this talk, I will present what these both mean to me as someone who has been a DevOps engineer and is now a Platform Engineer. I’ll talk about the Platform Engineering Iceberg, showing how what appears to be a simple term hides a mass of complexity and challenges. And to wrap it up, I’ll talk about Developer Experience and how it is tied into all of this.
Explore how platform architecture influences software architecture and vice versa – Learn why the principles of coupling and cohesion apply to platform components (and configuration) in the same way as they do with software components – Understand what to expect from an effective platform, including how applications are built, shipped, and run
In this entertaining and thoughtful keynote, Russ Miles (Developer, Listener, Author and Builder of platforms) will unpack the myths around platform engineering. Touring a collection of real-world examples where platforms swim or sink through the lense of philosophy, Russ will explore the many choices you can make that will make the difference between a successful platform that your teams will love and a franken-platform that no one wants to touch.

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Expert knowledge for…

  • Platform Engineers building internal developer platforms

  • Software Developers working in cloud-native environments

  • DevOps Engineers transitioning toward platform thinking

  • Architects shaping API-first and scalable system landscapes

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  • Design developer platforms that truly enable teams

  • Identify and prevent common platform failure modes

  • Evaluate API-first and cloud-native platform strategies

  • Understand where DevOps ends and Platform Engineering begins

  • Align platform strategy with long-term organizational goals

  • Reduce cognitive load through smart platform abstractions

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Speaker and Experts

Sebastian Meyen

Content Director at Software & Support Media
Expert in IT content strategy, editorial leadership, and conference programs

Derek Ashmore

Application Transformation Principal at Asperitas
Expert in cloud optimization, performance, and cost-efficient modernization

Dylan McCarthy

Chief Engineer at Versent
Expert in software development, DevOps, and platform engineering

Marcus Greuel

Lead Software Architect at Deutsche Telekom IT GmbH
Expert in software architecture, platform engineering, and developer experience

Thomas Ganter

Architect & Product Manager at Deutsche Telekom IT GmbH
Expert in developer tooling, self-service platforms, and API architecture

Michael Johann

Principal Platform Engineer at Deutsche Telekom IT GmbH
Expert in platform engineering, developer experience, and Backstage

Christian Hartung

Platform Engineer at Deutsche Telekom IT GmbH
Expert in Kubernetes operators, cloud-native APIs, and Go

Sarah Saunders

Sarah Saunders

Senior Developer at Capgemini
Expert in Agile software development and enterprise web technologies

Kris Buytaert

Kris Buytaert

Engineering Leader at Inuits.eu / o11y.eu
Expert in DevOps, open source, and resilient infrastructure engineering

Mark Boyd

Researcher & Policy Advisor
Expert in APIs, data systems, and digital governance

Daniel Bryant

Daniel Bryant

Independent Consultant & News Manager at InfoQ
Expert in DevOps tooling, cloud-native platforms, and microservices

Russell Miles

Russell Miles

Author, Speaker & Systems Engineer
Expert in chaos engineering, resilience, security, and software architecture

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