Terraforming Your Platform Engineering Organisation

This conference talk explores the evolution beyond "shifting left" in DevOps to platform engineering as a solution for improving developer experience. Learn how platform engineering enables teams to focus on delivering user-facing features rather than getting bogged down in infrastructure concerns. Speaker Bram Vogelaar demonstrates how to efficiently create and maintain proper permissions and team structures using Waypoint as a foundation for well-defined building blocks while maintaining engineering team control. Discover a practical approach to creating GitHub team structures that can be used to manage teams and permissions across Vault and Boundary, including how Vault can synchronize secrets to appropriate GitHub projects. The presentation addresses the challenges of the steep learning curve that came with the "shift left" movement and offers solutions for balancing control and productivity in modern engineering organizations.