Platform 9 3/4: Unlocking the Magic of Developer Enablement

Platform engineering promises to make developers more productive — but too often it delivers a maze of tools, tickets, and tribal knowledge instead. What would it look like if your platform worked like magic?

Taking inspiration from a certain wizarding school’s platform for impossible things, this talk explores what genuine developer enablement looks like: self-service that actually works, golden paths that don’t become golden cages, and the organisational ingredients that separate platforms developers love from platforms they route around.

Practical lessons from building and operating internal developer platforms in the cloud-native space.