Building Resilient Smart City Platforms

Explore the engineering complexities of developing resilient smart city platforms in this 16-minute conference talk from Conf42 Platform Engineering 2025. Learn how to tackle the unique challenges of building distributed systems that can handle the massive scale and complexity of urban infrastructure. Discover architectural patterns for intelligent transport systems and understand how AI-powered incident response mechanisms can improve city operations. Examine critical considerations around privacy protection and governance frameworks that ensure citizen data security while enabling innovation. Master observability techniques and deployment patterns specifically designed for smart city environments, and understand how to build sustainable platforms that minimize carbon footprint. Gain insights into the fundamental building blocks required for smart city networks and learn how to measure the success of these complex urban technology initiatives through concrete, measurable outcomes.