Platform Engineering - Day Zero, The Origin Story

Learn how to initiate platform engineering initiatives in organizations without existing infrastructure or resources through this 31-minute conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Discover practical strategies for building a platform engineering roadmap starting from your current organizational state, regardless of existing technical debt or lack of established processes. Explore common tools and technologies essential for constructing internal developer platforms, including approaches for implementing best practices, scalability, modularity, automation, and self-service capabilities. Understand how to champion a platform engineering mindset within your organization and develop iterative approaches for improving teams, processes, and technologies when working without paved roads, golden paths, or organizational buy-in. Gain insights into overcoming legacy system challenges and technical debt while building sustainable platform engineering foundations from the ground up.