Platform Engineering with Camille Fournier and Ian Nowland
I’d like to invite you to a free live event with Camille Fournier and Ian Nowland, coauthors of the O’Reilly book Platform Engineering. It’s a great chance to chat with experts about platform engineering and learn why it’s a game changer for organizations.
For the past 25 years, software organizations have grappled with a persistent challenge: how to manage code, tools, and infrastructure that is shared across multiple teams. Centralized teams often fall short, offering clunky systems, ignoring user needs, and failing to deliver stability and reliability. Small teams experience a different set of challenges, frequently drowning in complexity. The few that have cracked the code embrace a different approach—platform engineering—to create robust, user-friendly platforms.
Join us for a conversation on platform engineering with Camille Fournier and Ian Nowland, coauthors of the O’Reilly book Platform Engineering, and Eric Ledyard, VP of enterprise architecture at Coder. They’ll discuss what platform engineering is (and isn’t), the benefits and value it brings to developers and teams, and the shifts your organization needs to make to truly become a platform-led organization.
Ask questions, learn tricks of the trade, listen to stories, and connect with other readers.
Speaker Details
Camille Fournier is a technology executive with leadership experience ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 50 corporations. She was a founding member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee and currently serves on the board of ACM Queue. She has published three books with OÂ’Reilly, Platform Engineering, The ManagerÂ’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change, and 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know.
Ian Nowland has been in the software industry for 25 years, most recently at Datadog, where he was SVP of core engineering. He worked for AWS in its early days (2008–2016) as lead engineer on the launch of Amazon EMR, and he led the EC2 Nitro project for its first five years. He’s currently a cofounder at a stealth mode startup.
Eric Ledyard is a technology leader with over 27 years of experience in the IT industry. Throughout his career, he has led platform engineering teams, contributed as a trusted management consultant, and held pivotal positions such as CTO and SVP at large organizations. HeÂ’s also held leadership roles across data center, cloud, SRE, DevOps, value stream management, AI, and SaaS domains.
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