The Binge Story: Hunt for the Perfect Platform

Embark on a transformative journey through the cloud landscape with Foxtel, a traditional broadcast company, as they search for the ideal microservice platform from 2011 to 2021. Discover how Foxtel evolved from using the cloud as a hosted data center to embracing cloud-native transformation with AWS and Kubernetes. Gain insights into the accidental creation of an internal platform-as-a-product, known as the "Bedrock Framework," in 2018 and learn how it empowered the business to rapidly deliver three streaming products for the Australian market within just three years. This 18-minute conference talk at PlatformCon 2024 offers valuable lessons in cloud adoption, platform engineering, and business agility in the digital age.