Hey there! Welcome to Platform Weekly. Your weekly peel of the platform engineering banana. Each week, we explore deeper into the platform engineering cosmos, discussing the latest news, best practices, lessons, and insights from the community.

What’s hot in platform engineering?

• The first platform engineering certification course of 2025 just started yesterday!
• Platform engineering pitfalls featuring community ambassador Jordan Chernev
• OpenTofu 1.9.0 arrives with for_each on providers!? This battle is getting interesting

The next DevOps is dead?

Are we going to have another DevOps is dead moment at PlatformCon 2025? What’s in store this year?!

If you could talk to 40,000 people about platform engineering, what would you say? You can tell them anything you want. You could shake them to their core with a bombshell like “Silos are fantastic.” Or break down how your 150-year-old company is succeeding at platform engineering?

You could help them guarantee they get adoption for their Platform, or dig up DevOps is dead one last time.

PlatformCon has changed a lot from its first edition back in 2022. Back then we were right in the thick of Covid. And platform engineering was just a newly hatched bird. Sure, it might’ve been like a really badass bald eagle or something, but it was still only just starting to spread its wings.

Now 3 years later, PlatformCon (and platform engineering) are rocketing off into space. We’ve grown from 7000 attendees to over 35,000, with 100s of thousands more watching on Youtube in the months after.

We’re being supported by basically every big name in the space. We’re going live and in-person in London, New York, and in Paris - with 1000s of people coming together for live networking, in-person trainings, and hands-on workshops.

It feels like PlatformCon couldn’t be more different than that hatchling in 2022.

But what really matters is what is the same.

It is still the same incredible community that makes all this possible. All coming together to funnel all the knowledge in the platform engineering universe through one incredible week of talks, workshops and discussions. Everything from best practices and successful frameworks to our worst mistakes and failures to avoid. 

Whether you share your platform story on stage, or in a thread in Slack.

PlatformCon wants to tell it. And we all want to hear it.