Aug 26, 2026

Platform Engineering for Developers, Architects & the Rest of Us • Daniel Bryant • GOTO 2025

Daniel Bryant discusses platform engineering for software developers and architects, emphasizing treating platforms as internal products with developers as customers. He outlines a three-layered architecture, the evolution from monolithic systems to microservices, and the importance of 'golden bricks' over 'golden paths' for composability. Key takeaways include API-first design, minimizing cognitive load, avoiding leaky abstractions, and measuring success through frameworks like DORA and DevEx to achieve speed, safety, and scale.

Jul 19, 2026

From Blind Spots to Merged PRs: Continuous Agentic Performance Optimization - May Walter, Hud

May Walter, CTO of Hud, details a real-world case study on integrating AI agents into the SDLC for continuous performance optimization. The talk covers Hud's runtime intelligence layer, which uses production context to identify and fix high-ROI performance issues like N+1 queries and missing database indexes. It highlights the technical approach, challenges, and the development of a human-friendly reporting system that delivers measurable P90 latency improvements, enabling proactive optimization in mature codebases.

Apr 08, 2026

Platforms for Humans and Machines: Engineering for the Age of Agents — Juan Herreros Elorza

This talk by Juan Herreros Elorza explores how to design internal developer platforms for a future where AI coding agents are first-class users. It argues that the same best practices that make platforms accessible to humans—self-service interfaces, well-defined APIs, local-first workflows, and rich observability—are now critical prerequisites for agents to autonomously build, debug, and ship software. The session provides concrete principles for platform design, discusses how to manage AI-assisted contributions, and emphasizes the need to measure the impact of these changes on developer productivity and system reliability.

Jul 25, 2025

Building Modern Software at Scale: Architectural Principles • Randy Shoup & Charles Humble

Randy Shoup, SVP of Engineering at Thrive Market, shares insights on architectural evolution, detailing the transition from monoliths to microservices, the principles of building effective platform engineering teams using DORA metrics, and how core distributed systems patterns have both endured and evolved.