Decoupling Local Development from Remote Infrastructure

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Why Most Platform Teams Fail: The Adoption Problem Nobody Wants to Own

We have all seen the moment: the platform goes live, the launch deck looks sharp, the portal is polished, the golden paths are documented, and yet teams quietly continue doing things the old way. Not always because the platform is bad, but because adoption was assumed, not owned.

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Shweta Vohra

Architecture Leader @Booking.com, Author of "Decoding Platform Engineering Patterns" & "Dear Software and AI Architect", 24+ Years Experience Building Cloud, Platform, and AI Systems

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Building a Migration Platform: Moving 100+ Netflix RDBMS Workloads to Aurora PostgreSQL

In late 2024, Netflix made a bet: consolidate the vast majority of our relational database use cases onto a single engine: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

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Ammar Khaku

Distributed Systems Engineer @Netflix with an Affinity for Online Data Stores

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Kshitij Gupta

Software Engineer @Netflix, Building Databases and Distributed Systems

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Platform Engineering’s Second Act: From Vending Machine to Passport Control

Three years ago on the QCon SF stage, I made the case for “Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability” as the pillars of a successful platform. Those pillars haven't moved. AI has just rewritten what each one requires, and the platform team's job along with it.

Speaker image - Smruti Patel

Smruti Patel

SVP of Engineering @apollographql

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Alex Mann

Senior Engineering Manager @apollographql

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The Rise of Agent Enablement: Coding Agents Don't Scale Themselves. Neither Do Your Teams.

In 2009, every big enterprise said "continuous delivery won't work here." In 2026, the same rooms say "the dark factory won't work here." It was never about the technology being ready. It's about the organization being ready. Readiness is a socio-technical problem, not a technical one.

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Patrick Debois

AI Product Engineer @Tessl, Co-Author of the "DevOps Handbook", Content Curator at AI Native Developer Community