Most platform conversations stop at "stand up a portal and call it a platform." This one goes deeper into the architecture beneath the paved path and the experience it is supposed to create for the developers who actually use it.

Building on his book Platform Engineering on Kubernetes, Mauricio Salatino joins us for a candid, practitioner-level discussion of the harder questions teams actually wrestle with: Why is buying a platform rarely the answer for medium-to-large orgs, and why do off-the-shelf approaches so often leave behind unstitched workflows and silos? When is the right level of abstraction a shared runtime versus something each team owns? What belongs at the platform layer, and what should stay with the teams? And how do you keep an internal platform genuinely usable, rather than a catalog of buttons with nothing behind them?

Throughout, we will keep developer experience in view, not as a slogan, but as the test every one of these decisions must pass: a golden path only works when it is also the fastest path. Expect a real conversation, with room for audience questions.

Perfect for platform engineers, DevOps practitioners, engineering leaders, and developers who want to move from platform theory to the real tradeoffs.