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5 years of platform engineering

It’s been 5 years since Team topologies. What’s changed? And what does the future look like? Join me on Thursday, 16th of May next week and let’s find out.

I’ll be hosting a special Pre-PlatformCon 2024 event alongside Manuel Pais, Nicki Watt (CEO/CTO at OpenCredo), Paul Ingles (Uswitch), and Torill Iversen to discuss the last 5 years a platform engineering, and what the future holds.

Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton is truly one of the foundational texts of Platform Engineering. It pioneered a lot of the concepts and best practices that now define a lot of the platform engineering community.

It’s now the perfect time to come together now just before PlatformCon and look back at the last 5 years. We are on edition 80 of this newsletter, and even in the 1.5 years since we started - platform engineering has changed so much

And yet at the same time, a lot of the huge successes of platform engineering in the last few years like Minimum Viable Platforms and platform as a product stem from concepts first discussed 5 years ago in Team Topologies.

If you are into platform engineering, this is a must attend event.

Quick bites

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