Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Reliability isn't just the domain of a dedicated SRE team—it's a shared responsibility. In this track, we’ll explore how modern platform engineering practices and developer enablement strategies are making reliability a team sport. Learn how organizations are building internal platforms, shaping golden paths, and evolving their cultures to empower engineers at every level to contribute to resilient, scalable systems. From tooling and automation to process and mindset, discover how teams are driving reliability across the stack.

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Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns

When many teams work on a large, complex application, the microservice architecture potentially enables them to work independently and deliver a continuous stream of changes.

Speaker image - Chris Richardson

Chris Richardson

Creator of microservices.io, Java Champion, & Core Microservices Thoughtleader

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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.

Speaker image - Ian Nowland

Ian Nowland

CEO @Junction Labs, Author of O'Reilly's Platform Engineering, Previously SVP Core Engineering at Datadog and Leader of AWS Nitro

Track Host

Daniel Bryant

Platform Engineer, Co-Author of "Mastering API Architecture", Java Champion, and InfoQ News Manager

Daniel Bryant is currently focused on building platforms as a product with Syntasso. He is also the News Manager at InfoQ and the Emeritus Chair for QCon London. Daniel’s technical expertise focuses on APIs, cloud/container platforms, and microservice implementations. He is a leader within and contributor to several open source communities, writes for well-known technical websites such as InfoQ, O'Reilly, and DZone, and regularly presents at international conferences such as QCon, KubeCon, and Devoxx.

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