Platform Engineering

Controller-as-code: GitOps patterns for Ansible automation platforms - Kedar Kulkarni

Beyond staging: Implementing high-fidelity ephemeral testing with Cluster API — track: Toolbox (or…

Nobody owns this problem: The platform engineer's cross-functional mandate - Matt Long

Agentic troubleshooting: One pattern for customer-facing AI - Nik Kale | PlatformCon 2026

The governance gap: Why AI-generated infrastructure is outpacing every human on your platform team

Platform as shock absorber: Preventing a $15M delay - Jay Paulson | PlatformCon 2026

Humans on the loop, not in it: Taking agentic engineering end to end - Kief Morris

Breaking the monolith: Improving velocity by migrating to ML platform - Vaidehi Thete

The New York Times reimagined its targeted email program by transitioning a monolithic, multi-hour machine learning job into a series of decoupled, composable services. Platform Engineer Vaidehi Thete details how the original Airflow-orchestrated process suffered from resource constraints, stale user data, and operatio...

Platform engineering: From MVP to enterprise-grade: Strategies, challenges, and best practices

The death of the IDP: Meet developers where they are and realize your platform engineering…

Reducing alert noise in SOCs with context-driven triage - Diptamay Sanyal | PlatformCon 2026

From “No time for GitOps” to enterprise adoption: Selling Flux the human way

Platform teams often struggle to gain adoption for their technical solutions because they fail to communicate their value to the broader organization. Bridging this gap requires shifting from purely technical output to a strategy rooted in business relevance. First, teams must establish visibility by actively engaging ...

Beyond the hype: Bridging the "AI productivity paradox" with platform engineering - Krishna Kannan

Product managers won't help you with the hardest adoption barriers - Colin Bowern | PlatformCon 2026

Platform engineering success hinges on voluntary adoption and human-centric change management rather than technical implementation alone. While product management skills like discovery and delivery are valuable, they cannot replace the leadership required to navigate organizational alignment, entrenched habits, and com...

What happens in the Pod stays in the Pod: Confidential containers on OpenShift - Ananthakrishnan Vr

Zero-ticket infrastructure: The DevX Terraform journey for empowering developers

Kill standing privileges: Implementing cloud-native JIT for K8s, AWS, and GCP

Observability for data platforms: From pipelines to platform SLOs - Vineel Arekapudi

SCoPE: From platform initiatives to business KPIs - a measurement framework that actually works

Quantifying platform engineering initiatives to business KPIs remains a persistent challenge, often resulting in platform work losing priority to product features. The SCoPE framework addresses this by providing a common language to measure engineering impact across four pillars: Stability, Cost of opportunity, Product...

Pulse check: Platform engineering research - Steve Fenton & Matt Allford | PlatformCon 2026