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Driving and Measuring the Impact of Platform Engineering

Ben Linders — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:22:00 GMT

Platform engineering has to be approached from a socio-technical perspective, and shaped by all stakeholders, not just developers, Sergiu Petean said in his talk Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering. Platform success depends on written principles that endure change while embracing change as the main design force, to enable teams to build, run, and release software.

By Ben Linders

Presentation: Building a Future-Proof Observability Platform to Empower Engineers

Dan Gomez Blanco, Wayne Bell — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:14:00 GMT

Wayne Bell and Dan Gomez Blanco discuss the architectural and cultural shift required to scale observability at Skyscanner. They share how moving to OpenTelemetry decoupled instrumentation from vendors, and explain why treating a platform as a product - with engineers as customers - is the key to reducing incident rates and eliminating technical debt across 800+ microservices.

By Dan Gomez Blanco, Wayne Bell

Presentation: Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking - What Works, What Hurts?

Chris Tacey-Green — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:20:00 GMT

Chris Tacey-Green discusses the shift from synchronous commands to asynchronous events within highly regulated environments. He explains the critical role of Inbox and Outbox patterns in preventing data loss, the nuances of event versioning, and how to maintain decoupling between domains. He shares "battle-tested" principles for implementing fault tolerance and managing eventual consistency.

By Chris Tacey-Green