Ant(on) Weiss
Software Delivery Futurist
15 years in tech, marketing and leadership roles. All about software delivery optimization. 5 years in technical and executive training. Expert in DevOps, Lean, Systems Thinking, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Native and Decentralized Systems. Coder, speaker, writer. Fixated on improving the ways humans collaborate by telling mind-provoking stories.
Presentations
Platform Engineering is all the buzz now. Centralized developer platforms are touted as the panacea for complexity, security breaches and lack of efficiency. But centralization often brings bureaucracy and loss of autonomy. How to avoid our platform team becoming yet another silo surrounded with walls that DevOps was supposed to bring down?
In the session I'll outline the pitfalls and recommendations for building internal platforms. All based on my 23 years of industry experience.
Engineers are the new kingmakers. We all heard that. But why do they so often get disillusioned, disengaged and burnt out?
In this talk we'll go through some stories of burnout and see how to turn them around to keep engineers engaged and happy.
Yes, even when they are WFH.
Backstage is a CNCF project.
It's the leading open-source platform for building Internal Developer Portals - systems at the core of modern platform engineering.
In this workshop we'll learn the basics of the Backstage platform and see how to customize it for your software organization's needs.
Some topics we will cover:
- Service scaffolding
- Knowledge sharing and documentation
- Service Catalog
- Kubernetes integration
Resilience starts with acknowledging failures. The systems we're building and the distributed, global organizations we're part of are highly complex. Failure in complex systems is a given. While resilience defines our persistence and ability to use failure for growth and learning.
Let's discuss how to build that capability on the technical, organizational and finally - personal level.