Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Talk by Arthur Freyman
socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/build-better-loop-guide-platform-engineering
From scrappy sysadmins and early SRE teams to DevOps and today’s platform engineering wave, this talk traces how operations have evolved—and why the next frontier is treating your platform as a real internal product for developers. This talk will unpack what a modern platform actually is (and isn’t), show how ideas like Team Topologies, golden paths, and “glue as a service” fit together, and share concrete strategies for success: adopting a product mindset, obsessing over developer experience, measuring with DevEx/DORA-style signals, and ruthlessly stripping away incidental complexity so autonomous teams can move faster with less coordination. You’ll leave with a practical mental model and a set of patterns you can apply immediately to build a better loop between developers, platform, and the business.
Talk by Arthur Freyman
socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/build-better-loop-guide-platform-engineering
From scrappy sysadmins and early SRE teams to DevOps and today’s platform engineering wave, this talk traces how operations have evolved—and why the next frontier is treating your platform as a real internal product for developers. This talk will unpack what a modern platform actually is (and isn’t), show how ideas like Team Topologies, golden paths, and “glue as a service” fit together, and share concrete strategies for success: adopting a product mindset, obsessing over developer experience, measuring with DevEx/DORA-style signals, and ruthlessly stripping away incidental complexity so autonomous teams can move faster with less coordination. You’ll leave with a practical mental model and a set of patterns you can apply immediately to build a better loop between developers, platform, and the business.
