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: }