
Speaker: Ian Nowland
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CEO @Junction Labs, Author of O'Reilly's Platform Engineering, Previously SVP Core Engineering at Datadog and Leader of AWS Nitro
Ian Nowland is the CEO and co-founder of Junction Labs, and co-author of O'Reilly’s Platform Engineering. With 25 years in software, Ian previously served as SVP of Core Engineering at Datadog during its hypergrowth phase, and spent eight formative years at AWS (2008–2016), where he led the creation and development of EMR and AWS Nitro, EC2’s virtualization platform.
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Continuous Delivery for Foundational Platforms
Platform teams frequently inherit systems that were never architected for their current scale, yet are so foundational that downtime can halt the business.