Why we skipped SRE and switched to Platform Engineering?
summary
Electrolux stops hiring SREs into every product team and instead builds an IDP on Backstage Phoenix that automates provisioning, observability, security and cost tracking; it serves ~200 developers across 60 countries and provides templates for EKS, Lambda and databases, CI/CD and API publishing. Self-service cuts common requests to two clicks, reduces manual SRE tickets, produces seven measured game-day experiments, and shifts SREs into a product team maintaining the platform.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and speakers
- 1:08Why skip SRE approach
- 6:08Developer experience challenges
- 8:01SRE team growth and platform start
- 13:20Building internal developer platform
- 16:30IDP benefits and team shift
- 21:30Switching to platform engineering
- 22:55Q&A session
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