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Speaker: Wes Reisz
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Technical Principal @thoughtworks, Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, & QCon SF 2023 PC Chair, Previously Platform Architect @VMware
Wes is a Technical Principal with Thoughtworks where his focus is on working with customers on app modernization, with a particular focus on the cloud native ecosystem. Prior to Thoughtworks, he was one of the Platform Architects at VMware focused on Tanzu. Wes is a previous chair for the San Francisco edition of QCon and is one of the co-hosts of The InfoQ Podcast. His interests focus around architecture, cloud compute, app modernization, and, of course, the cloud-native ecosystem.
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Track
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Training
Platform Thinking: Strategies for Building Effective Platform Teams
Kubernetes is a great starting point, but it is not an end goal. Kubernetes is a platform for building platforms. Platform engineering is the next step of DevOps maturity.