Why We Skipped SRE and Switched to Platform Engineering

Discover how an IoT organization in the Home Appliance industry scaled from 10 to 200 developers with just five Ops engineers in three years. Learn about their journey in building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that integrates with Cloud and various toolchains, allowing developers to push code from day one with minimal infrastructure knowledge. Explore the challenges they faced in promoting Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to developer teams and their decision to switch to platform engineering. Gain insights into the benefits achieved through their IDP, including reduced complexity, faster delivery time, improved security and governance, and the embedding of SRE principles within the platform. This 11-minute conference talk from PlatformCon 2023 features speakers Kristina Kondrashevich, SRE Product Owner, and Gang Luo, SRE Manager, both from Electrolux, sharing their experiences and strategies in platform engineering.