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KubeCon Atlanta 2025 Part 2: Platform Engineering Consensus and Community Reality Check
After years of "what even IS platform engineering" debates, KubeCon 2025 delivered consensus: three non-negotiable principles, real-world adoption at Intuit/Bloomberg/ByteDance scale, and the honest truth about maintainer burnout. Cat Cosgrove's "ready to abandon ship" quote reveals the human cost of building the infrastructure everyone depends on.
In this episode:
- Three platform principles emerged: API-first self-service, business relevance (not just tech metrics), and managed service approach (not templates)
- The "puppy for Christmas" anti-pattern explains 70% platform team failure rate - templates without ongoing operational support
- Intuit migrated Mailchimp's 11M users and 700M emails/day so seamlessly "developers didn't even notice"
Perfect for platform team leads, principal engineers, technical leadership considering or running platform engineering initiatives looking to level up their platform engineering skills.
Episode URL: https://platformengineeringplaybook.com/podcasts/00036-kubecon-2025-platform-engineering
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By vibesreAfter years of "what even IS platform engineering" debates, KubeCon 2025 delivered consensus: three non-negotiable principles, real-world adoption at Intuit/Bloomberg/ByteDance scale, and the honest truth about maintainer burnout. Cat Cosgrove's "ready to abandon ship" quote reveals the human cost of building the infrastructure everyone depends on.
In this episode:
- Three platform principles emerged: API-first self-service, business relevance (not just tech metrics), and managed service approach (not templates)
- The "puppy for Christmas" anti-pattern explains 70% platform team failure rate - templates without ongoing operational support
- Intuit migrated Mailchimp's 11M users and 700M emails/day so seamlessly "developers didn't even notice"
Perfect for platform team leads, principal engineers, technical leadership considering or running platform engineering initiatives looking to level up their platform engineering skills.
Episode URL: https://platformengineeringplaybook.com/podcasts/00036-kubecon-2025-platform-engineering