Applying Platform Engineering Principles to On-Premises Network Infrastructure @ NetDevOps Days NYC

In this NetDevOps Days session, Itential CTO & Co-Founder Chris Wade leads an open discussion alongside Kaon Thana, Staff Network Engineer at The New York Times, with network engineers on the challenges and benefits of applying platform engineering principles to on-premises network infrastructure.

While the DevOps mindset makes sense for application teams, infrastructure teams should look to platform engineering and SRE concepts instead to avoid a situation where each application team consumes infrastructure in their own dynamic way – causing siloed operations and duplicate efforts. A platform engineering approach helps teams to focus on common infrastructure services, working together to build a ‘product catalog’ of what your users need from the network.

You’ll hear about:

• The shift in operational mindset from human focused processes to a machine first mindset.
• What a platform engineering approach should look like for infrastructure teams.
• A real-life example on how the New York Times successfully implemented platform engineering principles for their on-premises network infrastructure, with lessons learned along the way.
• An open discussion on the challenges and opportunities that come along with platform engineering.