Driving Organizational Sustainability with Platform Engineering

Explore how Platform Engineering can drive organizational sustainability in this 29-minute conference talk from PlatformCon LDN. Delve into the sociotechnical consequences of prioritizing short-term gains over long-term benefits in software development, including tech debt, retention issues, and business risks. Learn how Platform Engineering's DevOps-based principles, strong support systems, and standardized shared architecture can address these challenges. Examine the concept of organizational sustainability and its relationship with Platform Engineering. Discover the sociotechnical principles provided by DevOps, the robust support structures enabling platform adoption and faster delivery, and the Platform architecture principles, common tensions, and framework for empowering product engineers. Gain insights from a concrete case study demonstrating how organizations can benefit from Platform Engineering teams, ultimately driving long-term sustainability and success.