Discover the truth behind Platform Engineering! Join Horovits as he delves into its evolution, demystifies its purpose, and reveals how it maps to the DevOps maturity model. Gain insights from industry giants and community white papers, and learn when and why your organization needs it.

Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering. But what is Platform Engineering really about? Is it the next stage in the evolution of SRE and DevOps? Is it just a fancy rebrand? And most importantly - do I need it?

In this talk Horovits will look into the accumulated experience of larger organizations, the common pains that drive them to adopt Platform Engineering, and what DevOps and SRE responsibilities it covers. The talk will also share insights from the recent whitepaper published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s TAG App Delivery.

Horovits will also provide guidance on which organizations should adopt Platform Engineering and at which point in their DevOps maturity lifecycle. This talk will equip you with the fundamentals to assess Platform Engineering for your organization.

Horovits is a DevOps Specialist & CNCF Ambassador. He lives at the intersection of technology, product and open source. With over 20 years in the hi-tech industry as a software developer, a solutions architect and a product manager, he brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud and cloud-native solutions, DevOps practices and more. Horovits is an international speaker and thought leader, as well as an Ambassador for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). He runs the successful OpenObservability Talks podcast, where he evangelizes on Observability in IT systems using popular open source projects such as Prometheus, OpenSearch, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry.