Platform Engineering in Practice

From Foundations to the Next Phase of Developer Platforms

🇬🇧 Englisch

Von den Grundlagen zur nächsten Evolutionsstufe moderner Developer Platforms

Moderne Softwareorganisationen skalieren nicht allein durch Tools – sie skalieren durch durchdachte Entwicklerplattformen.

Platform Engineering hat sich von einer aufkommenden Disziplin zu einer strategischen Kernkompetenz entwickelt. In diesem Kurs lernst du, wie interne Plattformen kognitive Last reduzieren, Delivery beschleunigen und Klarheit in zunehmend komplexen Cloud-native-Umgebungen schaffen.

Basierend auf einem Jahrzehnt Praxiserfahrung, Konferenz-Sessions und Fachartikeln erhältst du nicht nur theoretisches Wissen, sondern konkrete Orientierung für die Umsetzung.

Warum Platform Engineering heute entscheidend ist

Cloud-native-Architekturen, API-first-Strategien und verteilte Systeme haben die Komplexität moderner Software drastisch erhöht. Entwicklerproduktivität hängt heute nicht nur vom Code ab – sondern von der Qualität der Plattform darunter.

In diesem Kurs erfährst du:

die Grundlagen und Kernkonzepte des Platform Engineering
wie der API-first-Ansatz moderne Architekturen verändert
wie interne Plattformen die Developer Cognitive Load reduzieren
warum viele Plattform-Initiativen scheitern – und wie du es besser machst
wie sich Platform Engineering und DevOps überschneiden – und wo sie sich unterscheiden
welche Trends die nächste Phase von Developer Platforms prägen

Das erwartet dich

Platform Engineering Is Entering Its Next Phase

Platform Engineering didn’t suddenly become something else. It quietly became more than we initially planned for. For several years now, Platform Engineering has proven itself as a practical and effective response to a very real problem: how to improve flow, reliability, and developer productivity in increasingly complex systems.

The API-First Shift: How Platform Engineering Is Quietly Killing the Monolith

This article examines how platform engineering and an API-first mindset are enabling enterprises to replace legacy applications with modern, resilient services, using secure APIs, CI/CD, observability and internal developer platforms to reduce risk, minimize disruption and turn modernization into a continuous driver of innovation and business agility.

Reducing Developer Cognitive Load with Platform Engineering

Let’s look at one of the pressing issues that development teams are facing today, the cognitive load of managing infrastructure, and how Platform Engineering can help alleviate this burden.

Platform Engineering: Fundamentals and Concepts

You often hear the provocative statement: “DevOps is dead.” This is a false claim, merely intended to draw attention to a current trend: platform engineering. In this article, we’ll shed light on the current problems facing DevOps and developers and describe platform engineering as a solution.

Redefining the Platform

As platform engineering has evolved into an art form, the DevOps “one team” drive has somewhat dissolved again. This can mean that some of the hard work to remove the Dev/Ops boundary has fallen by the wayside.

Lessons from 10 years of Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering is the new hype on the block. But we’ve been doing this for some 10 years, we just didn’t call it Platform Engineering. We provided self service enabled platforms with guardrails for development teams to consume. Some did successfully, some didn’t … This talk will help you learn from the mistakes we made along the road and but also from the successes. Spoiler: it’s mostly about communication.

Platform Engineering 2025: Trends, Challenges and How to Stay Ahead

A look at current trends in platform engineering: creating platform teams, creating shared resources, supporting developer teams, creating and implementing standards, automatic CI/CD delivery pipelines, internal developer portals, data governance, API governance, AI adoption and impacts, and developer productivity metrics. We look at all the key themes and how platform engineering practices are evolving.

Platform Engineering vs DevOps

In the last few years, we have seen a rise in the usage of the term Platform Engineering, but what does that actually mean and how does it compare to DevOps? In this talk, I will present what these both mean to me as someone who has been a DevOps engineer and is now a Platform Engineer. I’ll talk about the Platform Engineering Iceberg, showing how what appears to be a simple term hides a mass of complexity and challenges. And to wrap it up, I’ll talk about Developer Experience and how it is tied into all of this.

Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects

Explore how platform architecture influences software architecture and vice versa – Learn why the principles of coupling and cohesion apply to platform components (and configuration) in the same way as they do with software components – Understand what to expect from an effective platform, including how applications are built, shipped, and run

How Developer Platforms Fail (And How Yours Won’t)

In this entertaining and thoughtful keynote, Russ Miles (Developer, Listener, Author and Builder of platforms) will unpack the myths around platform engineering. Touring a collection of real-world examples where platforms swim or sink through the lense of philosophy, Russ will explore the many choices you can make that will make the difference between a successful platform that your teams will love and a franken-platform that no one wants to touch.

Expertenwissen für....

Platform Engineers, die interne Developer Platforms aufbauen oder weiterentwickeln
Entwickler:innen in Cloud-native-Umgebungen
DevOps Engineers, die in Richtung Platform Thinking gehen
Architekt:innen, die API-first- und skalierbare Systemlandschaften gestalten