The platform Engineer gauntlent: Three defining challenges in the AI era

Conviciton

  • Background: There is an absence of platform leadership
  • Reason: Most “leaders” don’t push services or features to developers with conviction
  • Solution: Be proud and use your leadership role with courage

Focus

  • Focus on developers
  • Don’t only focus on the production ecosystem (observability, ci/cd) but also the path to this end

Foundations

  • Problem: Many companies are running behind their ai goals thanks to missing baseline automation
  • Solution: Embrace the AI