Organizational Sustainability with Platform Engineering • Lesley Cordero • GOTO 2024

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Lesley Cordero - Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times ‪@clesleycode‬

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ABSTRACT
Engineering organizations often face the consequences of building software in a way that prioritizes short-term gains over long-term ones. This has a lot of sociotechnical consequences, including tech debt, retention issues, and, ultimately, business risk. This talk focuses on how Platform Engineering can drive sustainability through its DevOps based principles, strong support system, and standardized shared architecture.

We’ll begin by reviewing what organizational sustainability is and how Platform Engineering can facilitate it. The rest of the talk will be split into three primary sections:
• The sociotechnical principles provided by DevOps
• The robust support structures that enable platform adoption and faster delivery.
• The Platform architecture, its principles, common tensions, and a framework for how to build platform architectures that enable product engineers to do their best work.

By the end, these principles and practices will tie together to form a concrete case study on how organizations can benefit from Platform Engineering teams. [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:59 Defining sustainability
02:22 Defining platform engineering
04:37 Platform principles
05:13 Culture
07:13 Automation
08:06 Measurement
08:56 Communal support
12:46 Platform architecture
13:11 Architecture principles
15:02 Platform chaos
17:11 Architecture principles
18:37 Design tensions
21:01 Platform "framework"
23:13 Developer platform portal
24:06 Examples/Case studies
24:56 Development
30:45 Delivery
32:32 Production readiness
36:26 Observability platform
37:31 Putting it all together
40:06 Defining a "Platform"
40:41 Outro

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