Three Reasons Why You Should Attend PlatformCon 2024

DZone is proud to announce our media partnership with PlatformCon 2024, one of the world’s largest platform engineering events. PlatformCon runs from June 10-14, 2024, and is primarily a virtual event, but there will also be a large live event in London, as well as some satellite events in other major cities. This event brings together a vibrant community of the most influential practitioners in the platform engineering and DevOps space to discuss methodologies, recommendations, challenges, and everything in between to help you build the perfect platform.

Need help convincing your manager (or yourself) that this is an indispensable conference to attend? You’ve come to the right place! Below are three key reasons why you should attend PlatformCon24.

1. Platform Engineering Is a Hot Topic in 2024

So, what is platform engineering? In his most recent article on DZone, Mirco Hering describes a platform engineer as someone who plays three roles: the technical architect, the community enabler, and the product manager. This multifaceted approach helps to better streamline development practices and take the load off of software engineers and allow for each team to be more in sync with their deployment cycles. 

In 2024, we’ve seen an increase in articles and conversations on DZone around platform engineering, how it relates to DevOps,  and the top considerations when looking to better optimize your development processes. Developers want to know more about this, and this conference is a perfect place to learn from the experts, and connect with other like minded individuals in the space.

2. Learn From Platform Engineering and DevOps Experts

Have you seen the lineup of speakers for PlatformCon this year?! Industry leaders will help you navigate this space and key conference themes, with prominent names including Kelsey Hightower, Gregor Hohpe, Charity Majors Manuel Pais, Nicki Watt, Brian Finster, Mallory Haigh, and more. At DZone, we value peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, and find that the best way for developers to learn about new tech initiatives, methodologies, and approaches to existing practices is through the experiences of their peers. And this is exactly what PlatformCon is all about!

This conference also gives attendees unparalleled access to the speakers via Slack channels. What better way to navigate the evolving world of platform engineering than to learn from the experts who are leading the way?

3. Embark on a Custom DevOps + Platform Engineering Journey

As we mentioned earlier, platform engineering is multifaceted, and with that, the approaches and practices are as well. The five conference tracks highlighted below are intended to allow you to tailor your experience and platform engineering journey. 

• Stories: This track enables you to learn from the practitioners who are building platforms at their organizations and will provide you with adoption tips of your own.
• Culture: This track focuses on the relationships between all of the developers and teams involved in platform engineering — from DevOps and site reliability engineers to software architects and more. 
• Toolbox: This track focuses on the technical components of developer platforms, and dives into what tools and technologies developers use to solve for specific problems. Conversations will focus around IaC, GitOps, Kubernetes, and more.
• Impact: This track is all about the business side of platform engineering. It will dive into the key metrics that C-suite executives measure and will offer advice on how to get leadership buy-in to build a developer platform.
• Blueprint: This track will give you the foundation to build your own developer platform, covering important reference architectures and key design considerations.

Register Today to Perfect Your Platform

Now that we’ve shared multiple reasons why you should attend PlatformCon 2024, we’ll leave you with one final motivation — it’s free to register and attend! This conference is the perfect opportunity to connect with like-minded people in the developer space, learn more about platform engineering, and help determine the best next steps in your developer platform journey.  

Learn more about how to register here. See you there!