Gregor Hope

Baltimore FireHydrant standard enable not limit innovation or creativity

Platforms need to be low-friction, common layers are not always good platforms (compare internal IT service)

Building non-scaling monolithic applications don'92t take advantage of the platform is pointless

Technical mechanisms for platforms

https://youtu.be/WaL3ZbLgMuI?t=644

Sinking and floating platforms

  • How do you respond as the base platform you build upon expands?

cloudstrategybook.com Lean pub.com/platformstrategy

Nati Shalom - Adding infra provisioning w backstage

  • built on k8s ergo building plugins is familiar

  • can write docs directly in backstage instead of confluence (but how versioned / curated? Just as bad as confluence)

  • basically a demo of cloudily provisioning (analogous to cortex?)

Chris Vermeulen - Composable platforms

  • create analogue to node/py/go library / package mgmt
  • example: }