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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Continuous Delivery for Foundational Platforms

Monday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST

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

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Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns

Monday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST

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.

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Chris Richardson

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

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Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix

Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST

How does Netflix maintain a seamless viewing experience for millions of users, especially during traffic spikes or when backend datastores are overloaded? Autoscaling can help during traffic spikes, but it costs money, takes a few minutes to kick in, and capacity may not always be available.

Speaker image - Anirudh Mendiratta

Anirudh Mendiratta

Staff Software Engineer, Playback Lifecycle @Netflix, Previously @Amazon Prime Video and @fuboTV

Speaker image - Benjamin Fedorka

Benjamin Fedorka

Staff Software Engineer, Productivity Engineering @Netflix

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Beyond DevOps: Building the Next-Gen Internal Developer Platform

Monday Nov 17 / 02:45PM PST

Details coming soon.

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Randy Shoup

SVP Engineering @Thrive Market, Previously @eBay, @Google, @Stitch Fix

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Unconference: Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Monday Nov 17 / 03:55PM PST

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Observability is Not Enough: Using Dev Enablement to Shift Right and Fix Faster

Monday Nov 17 / 05:05PM PST

Details coming soon.

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Monday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST

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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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