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Explore how Dynatrace revolutionized their demo environment strategy by treating throwaway demo platforms as a comprehensive product engineering exercise in this conference talk from PlatformCon 2025. Discover the organizational journey that led to this transformation, understanding the critical timing and necessity behind this strategic shift. Learn about the human and organizational challenges Dynatrace overcame during implementation, as well as ongoing obstacles they continue to navigate, including testing at scale, establishing golden paths, and implementing efficient adoption tracking methodologies. Examine their open source codebase through hands-on demonstrations that showcase the integration of numerous CNCF tools and technologies. Understand the environmental sustainability advantages this approach delivers while exploring future developments and innovations in the demo platform space. Gain practical insights into organizational change management and technical implementation strategies that can be applied within your own engineering teams. Access Git repositories containing ready-to-use templates that enable immediate implementation of similar transformations in your organization's demo infrastructure.
Syllabus
Destroyable demos: The Dynatrace demo platform - Adam Gardner | PlatformCon 2025
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Platform Engineering