About This Webinar
The 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle placed Platform Engineering at the “peak of inflated expectations.” This could foreshadow a rough ride for platform builders, who must navigate the “trough of disillusionment” before they can expect to see productivity. However, all is not lost, as there are emerging practices, technologies, and strategies that have led to the creation of successful platforms over the last decade.

Join Cat Morris, Daniel Bryant, and Abby Bangser as they explore key themes that caused the Gartner team to caution about the challenges ahead. Drawing on Cat’s experience rolling out multiple cloud-native platforms and Daniel’s past life as an analyst, they will offer patterns, processes, and practical approaches to increase the chance of success with your platform engineering efforts.

As a spoiler, it’s all about treating the platform as a product, focusing on automating workflows, and building with an eye for day two operations and scaling.
Agenda
  • Overview of platform engineering’s placement on the Gartner Hype Cycle and the challenges for 2024 and beyond
  • Discussion on the three key challenges from the analyst and implementer perspectives: enabling developers to ship faster, codifying and sharing organisational policies, and avoiding platform decay.
  • Patterns and practical approaches you can apply to your platform-building efforts
Presenters
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    Cat Morris
    Senior Product Manager at Syntasso
    Cat Morris is the Senior Product Manager at Syntasso who focuses on delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms. With over 10 years of consulting experience across various industries such as government, financial services, and healthcare, Cat has tackled numerous technology problems related to building and running operational and developer platforms. Away from her work endeavours, Cat is an avid plant enthusiast with dozens of houseplants, nurturing a lush green environment. She also shares her home with Opal, her equally adored and occasionally demanding feline companion.
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    Abby Bangser
    Principal Engineer at Syntasso
    Abby Bangser is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso, where she works on Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platforms, site reliability, and quality engineering.

    Abby is an international keynote speaker and co-host of the #CoffeeOps London meetup. Outside of work, Abby spoils her pup Zino and enjoys playing team sports.
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    Daniel Bryant
    Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso
    Daniel Bryant is the Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso. His technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms, and microservice implementations.

    Daniel is a long-time coder, platform engineer, and Java Champion, and he contributes to several open-source projects. He also writes for InfoQ, O’Reilly, and The New Stack, and regularly presents at international conferences such as KubeCon, QCon, and JavaOne.

    In his copious amounts of free time, he enjoys running, reading, and travelling.
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