Platform Democracy NOW! How to keep your Platform Promise with Daniel Bryant
More than 50% of platform engineering leads don't know how to measure the impact of their platform! Many platform projects fall into common anti-pattern traps that make the platform look great on Day 1 but fail to scale and excite on Day 2!Daniel Bryant - who's profile tagline is "Helping you build better platforms" - is sharing his thoughts on how to measure the value of your platform, how to avoid common anti-patterns and why he believes that the future of platform engineering is in Platform Democracy!And of course, we wrap everything up with a discussion around the impact of Agentic AI towards platform engineering. So - tune in! Here the links we discussedDaniel's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielbryantuk/Platform Engineering Book for Technical Product Leaders: https://www.amazon.de/Platform-Engineering-Technical-Product-Leaders/dp/1098153642/ref=asc_df_1098153642Platform Engineering Day Talk: https://www.syntasso.io/post/syntasso-at-platengday-london-presentation-recapKratix Website: https://www.kratix.io/Ai-Driven Platform Engineering Blog: https://www.syntasso.io/post/what-we-learned-building-a-prototype-ai-driven-dev-interface-for-kratixPlatform Democracy: https://www.syntasso.io/post/platform-democracy-rethinking-who-builds-and-consumes-your-internal-platformPlatform Anti Patterns: https://www.syntasso.io/post/platform-building-antipatterns-slow-low-and-just-for-showSlide Deck on Platform Engineering for Devs and Architects: https://speakerdeck.com/danielbryantuk/platform-engineering-for-software-developers-and-architects-redux
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DX Core 4 Applied - Measuring Developer Productivity with Dušan Katona
"How do you measure the impact you have with your platform engineering initiative?" is a question you should be able to answer. To show improvement you must first need to know what the status quo is. And this is where frameworks such as DX Core 4 come in. Never heard about it? Then tune into this episode where we have Dušan Katona, Sr Director of Platform Engineering at Ataccama, who is a big fan of the DX Core Four Metrics and who has just applied it in his current role to optimize developer experience.Dušan explains the details behind those 4 Core metrics: Speed, Effectiveness, Quality and Impact. He also shares how improving those metrics by a single point results in the equivalent of 10 hours saved per developer per year.And here the relevant links we discussed todayDusan's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dusankatona/DX Core 4 Blog: https://getdx.com/research/measuring-developer-productivity-with-the-dx-core-4/Marian's JIRA Analytics Open Source Project: https://github.com/marian-kamenistak/jira-lead-cycle-time-duration-extractor
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In the AI Age being Smart is not enough for Tech Leadership with Marian Kamenistak
"15 years ago it was enough to be smart - going forward its not a differentiator - being smart will just make you average!". But what is it? What makes great leaders worth following and how do they achieve tripling their value while others keep waiting for their 5% raise?4 years ago Marian Kamenistak launched the Engineering Leadership Community out of Prague, Czech Republic. Feeding from his experience in the Silicon Valley this community has grown to 1500 members with the mission to create "Leaders worth following". Tune in and hear from Marian on how to think and talk about value impact vs being held up with trying to achieve technical perfection. Why its important to build a network around you, the difference between mentorship and management as well as how to proof the value to your leadership that you bring to the organization!Links we discussed todayMarian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariankamenistak/Engineering Leadership Conference: https://www.elc-conference.io/Engineering Leadership Community: https://www.engineeringleaders.io/The Leadership Pipeline Book: https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Pipeline-Build-Powered-Company/dp/0470894563
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The Research Behind the AI and Observability Innovation with Otmar Ertl and Martin Flechl
Scientific research is the foundation of many innovative solutions in any field. Did you know that Dynatrace runs its own Research Lab within the Campus of the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria - just 2 kilometers away from our global engineering headquarter? What started in 2020 has grown to 20 full time researchers and many more students that do research on topics such as GenAI, Agentic AI, Log Analytics, Procesesing of Large Data Sets, Sampling Strategies, Cloud Native Security or Memory and Storage Optimizations.Tune in and hear from Otmar and Martin how they are researching on the N+2 generation of Observability and AI, how they are contributing to open source projects such as OpenTelemetry, and what their predictions are when AI is finally taking control of us humans!To learn more about their work check out these links:Martin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mflechl/Otmar's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmar-ertl/Dynatrace Research Lab: https://careers.dynatrace.com/locations/linz/#__researchLab
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Organizational Sustainability through Platform Engineering with Lesley Cordero
As a leader that wants to optimize an organization you are bound to fail if you isolate social (culture and people) and technical (tools and process) changes. When we ask Lesley Cordero, Staff Engineer at The New York Times how to solve this dilemma she answers: "Platform Engineering, it can drive organizational sustainability by practicing sociotechnical principles that provide a community driven support system for application developers using our standardized shared platform architecture"Tune in to our latest episode and learn more about the importance of leadership to continuously keep up and balance the tension between "Developers" and "Operations", between "End User Experience" and "Developer Experience" and ultimately between "Culture and People and "Tools and Processes"Links we discussedLesley's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleycordero/GOTO Conference Talk => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-XrUONJ-o QCon 2025 Talk Details: https://qconlondon.com/presentation/apr2025/platform-engineering-practice-sociotechnical-excellence DevOpsCon 2024 Talk Details: https://devopscon.io/business-company-culture/platform-engineering-devops/
The brutal truth about digital performance engineering and operations.Andreas (aka Andi) Grabner and Brian Wilson are veterans of the digital performance world. Combined they have seen too many applications not scaling and performing up to expectations. With more rapid deployment models made possible through continuous delivery and a mentality shift sparked by DevOps they feel it’s time to share their stories. In each episode, they and their guests discuss different topics concerning performance, ranging from common performance problems for specific technology platforms to best practices in development, testing, deploying and monitoring software performance and user experience. Be prepared to learn a lot about metrics.Andi & Brian both work at Dynatrace, where they get to witness more real world customer performance issues than they can TPS report at.
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