So... in our organisation we've been busy trying to bridge the gap between Dev and Ops. And we've been moving towards an almost completely automated Infrastructure enablement. We thought we were doing so well. And then... it turned out that even without human intervention, IT infrastructure is secretly still about human interaction. I will tell you our real life story of how we hit rock bottom Developer Experience because as enablement teams we were so focused on IaC and automating everything…

In this constantly changing world, we face new challenges: rapidly changing customer needs, increasing competition, and a shortage of skilled workers. Agility and speed are essential. Adopting Platform Engineering can be key, providing the flexibility and scalability to adapt swiftly, outpace competitors, and bridge the skills gap through automation and optimization.

I will demonstrate, using a real Platform, how Platform Engineering can help companies overcome hurdles and scale issues with…

There is a clear trend: ICT is responsible for more and more greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: it has already reached an estimated level of 4% of global GHG emissions, which is comparable to the entire aviation sector, and ICT energy consumption is growing at an estimated rate of ca. 9% per year. Fortunately, there are ways to reduce these negative effects. One of these ways is DevGreenOps. It is an extension of the DevOps approach to software development. DevGreenOps takes additional inspiration…

Let’s be honest, the tech we have today is amazing but it can also be complex. So, it’s only natural that the platforms we build want to hide that complexity to improve productivity, avoid mistakes, and reduce cognitive load. So, the more complexity we can hide, the better our platform? Actually no - we need to be careful that we create useful abstractions, not dangerous illusions. This talk reflects on two decades of building complex distributed systems, highlighting where abstractions helped…