CTO Hour with Peter Bell: Platform Engineering—Trends, Challenges, and Success Stories
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Ask Peter Bell and panelists your questions around senior engineering leadership
Join Peter Bell and a panel of senior leaders to hear expert insights on why platform engineering is becoming a popular solution for improving developer productivity and helping organizations manage the complexity of modern software development. Through a roundtable discussion you’ll learn the key problems that platform engineering solves as well as its unique benefits. Panelists will share how their organizations developed successful platform teams—from assessing initial needs and overcoming major challenges in building and scaling to fostering a culture that values the platform as a vital product. Along the way, you’ll discover how these leaders measure and communicate the success of their platforms, ensure continuous alignment with business goals, and encourage adoption. Finally, you’ll hear about the latest trends and technologies that are shaping the future of platform engineering, equipping you with the knowledge to empower your platform team’s success.
CTO Hour is a quarterly live event that brings together a panel of senior engineering leaders to discuss with expert and host Peter Bell how they’ve approached timely technology or business challenges. This dynamic event will feature ample time for questions, as well as polling of the audience to steer the discussion toward the topics you care the most about. Active and aspiring senior leaders will learn valuable insights from top VPs and CTOs and ultimately be prepared to make better-informed decisions as heads of technology.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Discover why platform engineering is increasingly popular and whether it’s right for your organization
- Understand the challenges of starting and scaling platform teams and avoid common pitfalls
- Learn how to measure the success of platform engineering in your organization so you can communicate its value throughout your organization
This live event is for you because...
- You’re an engineering leader who’s interested in learning more about starting and succeeding with platform engineering.
- You’re leading platform teams and want to hear how others have approached and solved common problems.
- You want the chance to ask Peter Bell and panelists your questions around software development and platform engineering.
Prerequisites
- Come with your questions for Peter Bell and panelists
- Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration
Recommended follow-up:
- Watch Infrastructure & Ops Superstream: Platform Engineering Best Practices (event video)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Thursday, September 26th, 2024, at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (60 minutes)
Your Hosts and Guests
Camille Fournier
Camille Fournier is a technology executive with leadership experience ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 50 corporations. She was a founding member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee and currently serves on the board of ACM Queue. She has published three books with O’Reilly, Platform Engineering, The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change, and 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know.
Peter Bell
Peter Bell is engineering chief of staff at Magnite, helping to support a team of around 400 engineers. He’s also the founder of the communities CTOs at Scale and Director Plus for senior engineering leaders at larger companies. Previously, he ran the instructional and curriculum organizations at Flatiron School, ran engineering at General Assembly, and taught data science and digital literacy at Columbia Business School.
Pia Nilsson
Pia Nilsson is Spotify’s senior director of engineering and head of platform developer experience, leading cross-cutting initiatives focused on creating an exceptional developer experience. She led the team that created Backstage to speed up iteration and enable quicker product development. During her early career as a self-employed backend engineer working across telecom, pharma, retail, banking, and gaming industries, Pia began recognizing patterns in the challenges engineers were experiencing, leading to her focus on platform-oriented work. She was an early adopter of DevOps principles and pair-programming, and she also led classes in clean code and test-driven development. Pia joined Spotify to lead the continuous integration platform and expanded into other domains connected to developer experience and effectiveness.
Kishore Jonnalagedda
Kishore Jonnalagedda is responsible for cloud and edge compute for Toyota North America. A leading expert in platform engineering and DevOps practices, he has over 20 years of experience in the field of software engineering. Previously, he was a principal engineer at Yahoo! and Intuit and at multiple startups. He’s also a sitting board advisor in the computer science department at the University of Texas at Arlington. The successful platform engineering work under his leadership has been published in amazon.com and Spotify blogs and at PlatformCon.