Top 10 fallacies in Platform Engineering • Kaspar von Grünberg • PlatformCon 2022

As in every trending new field, you can observe some confusion in the vertical of Internal Developer Platforms and developer self-service. As the building, implementation and adoption of such platforms have very far-reaching implications, every step must be well thought out. Most stakeholders have different views on which are the most pressing pain points a platform should solve, and that is just the beginning. This talk will be about some observations on common pitfalls when building IDPs, based on hundreds of conversations we had with platform teams.
We will discuss:
- What the most common fallacies in platform engineering are, when it comes to questions like prioritization, degree of abstraction, visualization, rollout, etc.
- How to avoid such platform engineering anti-patterns.
- Where and how to start the platform journey to enable real developer self-service.
Speaker: Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec.
Bio: Kaspar is the founder of Humanitec. He has spent the last 10 years building and running software companies from retail-applications and door-to-door campaigning technology to monitoring and evaluation for NGOs. His observations of common startup development challenges during this time ultimately became Humanitec’s founding vision.