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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform

Dominik Krichbaum

Decentralized pipelines are quietly crushing developer productivity. Treat Continuous Delivery as a centralized platform instead. Learn how this shift eliminates infrastructure friction and safely accelerates your deployment frequencies.

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#1 about 4 min

Challenges of standardizing global continuous delivery platforms

Rolling out global engineering initiatives requires navigating pushback from teams with existing local solutions.

#2 about 3 min

Using a public transport analogy for platform standardization

Centralized delivery platforms reduce cognitive load by offering standardized routes instead of requiring custom maintenance.

#3 about 2 min

Managing delivery constraints and compliance in enterprise banking

Implementing guardrails and custom controls within orchestration platforms ensures regulatory compliance for enterprise deployments.

#4 about 1 min

Quantifying the engineering cost of team-owned delivery pipelines

Analyzing pipeline maintenance metrics reveals significant time lost to updating configurations across thousands of templates.

#5 about 2 min

Automating deployment rollbacks to prevent manual heroics

Establishing automatic fallback procedures reduces the risk and reliance on manual intervention during failed releases.

#6 about 2 min

Adapting delivery models for AI-accelerated software development

Faster code generation demands more automated and scalable orchestration to handle complex, high-frequency releases.

#7 about 3 min

Transitioning pipelines from team ownership to platform services

Moving to a shared continuous delivery foundation prevents fragmentation while supporting complex system-based releases.

#8 about 2 min

Designing a robust continuous delivery framework with contract files

Separating integration from deployment using metadata contracts allows flexible handling of different workload archetypes.

#9 about 2 min

Implementing a layered pipeline architecture for safe extensibility

A strict phase structure ensures standard controls while allowing teams to customize deployments via isolated extension jobs.

#10 about 3 min

Mapping the maturity roadmap for scaled devops adoption

Progressing beyond standard pipelines uncovers deeper platform needs like infrastructure provisioning and advanced deployment strategies.

#11 about 3 min

Strategies for driving organizational momentum in platform initiatives

Building strong business cases with empirical data helps secure management support for long-term engineering investments.

#12 about 2 min

Securing management support for technical platform engineering initiatives

Demonstrating concrete metrics like time savings and reduced change failure rates validates internal platform strategy.

Matching moments

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Transitioning from fragmented pipelines to centralized platform engineering

Anna Ozor Anna Ozor · Europe 2026 Virtual

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Evolution of software delivery and the devops pipeline

Raz Cohen · LIVE

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Transitioning automated delivery pipelines into internal developer platform solutions

Lian Li · World Congress 2023

3:07 min

Shifting focus from tooling to pipeline delivery architecture

Pawel Piwosz · LIVE

2:11 min

Evolving devops towards platform engineering and self-service principles

Bruno Amaro Almeida · World Congress 2022

3:50 min

Introduction to cloud native infrastructure and platform engineering

Christian Strack · LIVE

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