Overcoming Obstacles and Building Self-service Platforms for Application Teams
Talkat Platform Engineering Day North America 2025 · on Monday, 2025-11-10· at 15:20· Building B | Level 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 2-3·
summary
Platform team builds a reusable pipeline and self-service provisioning backed by Terraform-style IaC, Kanban tracking and automated CI pipelines so application teams deploy without waiting on ops. The platform uses an API gateway + service mesh on Kubernetes, adds observability via OpenTelemetry (logs, metrics, traces) and tackles legacy dependencies. Result: consolidation of duplicated efforts across ~2,000 apps and 5,000 APIs handling 1.4 billion daily transactions, with noticeably faster time‑to‑production and fewer manual handoffs.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:47Speaker background
- 3:57Platform engineering goals
- 6:47Cross-functional collaboration
- 10:58Reusable pipeline architecture
- 12:24API management at scale
- 14:11Developer experience design
- 17:25Key takeaways
- 19:31Q&A
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