"I Choo-choo-choose You"; or How To Build Modern Platforms in a 200 Year Old Industry
Talkat Platform Engineering Day 2025 - Europe · on Tuesday, 2025-04-01· at 14:05· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F·
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Rail operator BaneNOR runs three platform teams (development, integration, data) on Azure following landing zone patterns, with apps on Kubernetes, Confluent Kafka for messaging and Databricks/Fabric/PowerBI for data. GitHub Actions + action-runner-controller and Flux provide GitOps while many teams still use Azure DevOps; 40 development teams are onboarded but only 4 are in production. Automation and internal container registries enforce security; Release Please plus super-linter caused a blocking CI failure in a real rollout. Confluent Kafka Flux 40 teams onboarded
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Modern platform journey
- 2:28Bane's modernization needs
- 7:32Platform architecture
- 10:06Development platform details
- 15:49Automation and agile practices
- 18:21Thinnest viable platform
- 19:25Future goals and culture
- 22:55Q&A
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