Everything you missed at PlatformCon this week
2026-06-26
Everything you missed at PlatformCon this week
Hey there! Welcome to Platform Weekly. Your weekly toast of platform engineering champagne. Every week, we bring you the best of what the community is reading, watching, and building. This week, we are talking about the last five days. PlatformCon 2026. The largest platform engineering week in history.
Everything you missed at PlatformCon this week
This was the biggest week platform engineering has ever had. Around 1,800 of you were with us in person across Live Day London and Live Day New York, and almost 50,000 more joined online, watching talks, getting hands dirty in workshops, and celebrating the discipline together🥹
The line up of speakers was incredible. My friends Kaspar von Grünberg, Ajay Chankramath, Mallory Haigh, joined by community and industry titans Gregor Hohpe, Nicki Watt, Kelsey Hightower, Patrick Debois, Caroline Wong, Kief Morris, Jay Moran and so many more. The talks spanned everything that matters to us right now. The agentic future, the infrastructure agents actually run on, how to actually build, run and succeed with agents and platforms and ofc the classic deep dives into sovereignty, security, supply chain, Kubernetes and GitOps, and mastering product thinking. If platform engineering is becoming the operating model for the modern enterprise, and we know it is, this was the week the whole community pushed us 100 steps forward.
There was a LOT announced this week, because there is a LOT happening.
Thinking in Platforms: the new book from Kaspar and me, lands August 18. It distils ten years of learnings on platform engineering as the operating model for work in the AI era. We break down a new way to understand platforms as production systems for knowledge work, an abstract model for reasoning about and architecting golden paths and platforms, and a playbook for moving from first initiatives to production readiness and scale with a focus beyond the world of just IT.
AgenticCon: a brand new one-day event all about agents, AI, and agentic infrastructure, arrives February 2027, co-located with PlatformCon San Francisco. Early access now! A new format for a new era.
PlatformCon World Tour: We’re going global. The Live Day format isn’t just heading to Paris, Sydney, and São Paulo, but to San Francisco too! Couldn't make it in person this week? Now you can, from all over the world!
Two new courses on Platform Engineering University: One on the move from IDP to ADP, and a deep dive on agent infrastructure itself!
And the big one that underpins all of this. We broke down the reference architecture for agentic development platforms, the ADP. It builds on your existing IDP, treats agents as users and interfaces, and splits into three layers: tooling, path specifications, and a new breed of agent infrastructure. The thesis? Without platforms, there is no productivity gain from agents. That statement is what sets everything that PlatformCon was about this week, and what the entire community is working off of.
What's still coming? A lot. The virtual program ran all five days, with 300+ hours of talks and virtual workshops dropping batch by batch across learning paths on the agentic future, sovereignty, security, Kubernetes, and more. You won't get through it in one sitting, nobody does, we all have 20 tabs open!
We are at an inflection point that will define the future of not just our industry, but basically all industries - and platform engineers sit at the very heart of that change.
The challenge and the opportunity literally couldn't be bigger. PlatformCon encapsulated that perfectly. Now let's embrace it together!
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Want to watch the recordings of PlatformCon workshops and talks you weren't able to attend? We're uploading more every day on the community YouTube channel.