Platform Engineering: Day Zero, The Origin Story
Getting Started with Platform Engineering - KubeCon NA 2025
How do you get started with platform engineering if you don’t have time and resources to build a platform?
Recap
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In this talk, I discuss how to bootstrap platform engineering when you’re starting from a place of high technical debt and limited resources. We move away from the “ideal” greenfield scenario and focus on practical, incremental steps to build a roadmap from your current reality.
Key takeaways:
- Roadmap Development: How to build a platform engineering roadmap starting from your current state, no matter how “messy” it is.
- Tooling & Tech: An exploration of common tools and technologies used in building internal developer platforms.
- Cultural Shift: Approaches for championing a platform engineering mindset within your organization.
- Iterative Improvement: Focusing on continuous, small improvements to teams, processes, and technologies.
