WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Apr 25, 2024

Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Why not both?

Christian Strack

Is the shift-left model crushing your developers with operational complexity? Discover why platform engineering doesn't replace DevOps, but provides the product-centric machinery to finally achieve it.

Starting at 13:49 · Watch from the beginning

Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Why not both? thumbnail

Checking access…

Playback and chapters load privately for Free videos.

Matching moments

1:43 min

Shifting focus from platform engineering to developer productivity

Robert Hoffmann

Robert Hoffmann +1 · LIVE

1:41 min

Designing internal developer platforms and product team responsibilities

Romano Roth

Romano Roth · World Congress 2025

1:20 min

Pivoting product strategy toward platform engineering

Alejandro Albuerne

Alejandro Albuerne · World Congress 2026 Europe

6:41 min

Breaking down organizational silos to define platform engineering culture

Liam Hurrel +1 · World Congress 2021

4:50 min

Recognizing the downward spiral of platform engineering

Robert Hoffmann

Robert Hoffmann +1 · LIVE

2:58 min

Rethinking the boundaries of modern platform engineering

Graziano Casto · LIVE

More from WeAreDevelopers LIVE

Why Your Side Projects Are Worth Sharing thumbnail

Why Your Side Projects Are Worth Sharing

Haimantika Mitra +2

4 days ago

Humans in the Loop: Storytelling in Tech thumbnail

Humans in the Loop: Storytelling in Tech

Pritesh Kiri +2

Last week

WeAreDevelopers LIVE: Your Brain Is Lying to You: Cognitive Biases in Development thumbnail

Your Brain Is Lying to You: Cognitive Biases in Development

2 weeks ago

Like Peas in a Pod - What Happens When People Clone Your App? thumbnail

Like Peas in a Pod - What Happens When People Clone Your App?

Ivan Kutskir +2

3 weeks ago

WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Read more, Prompt Less thumbnail

Read more, Prompt Less

Luise Freese +2

Oct 2026

WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Tech Education in Two Languages thumbnail

Tech Education in Two Languages

Roxy Rodriguez-Becker +1

Oct 2026

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Starts in 9 days

Conference India 2026

November 25–26, 2026

Bengaluru, India

Get tickets All 108 sessions

Engineering AI Strategy: Beyond the Hype
Omkar Srivastava · ADSK

Wed 25 Nov · Stage 4
From Monolith to Phases: Restructuring Terraform Deployments That Work in Any Cloud
Naveen Kumar Kalapala · Infosys Ltd

Wed 25 Nov · Stage 4
A Tale of Two Systems: Design and Reality
Mandeep Singh · Kyndryl

Thu 26 Nov · Stage 3 - powered by GitHub

Related videos

7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform thumbnail

7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform

Michael Coté · Tanzu

World Congress Europe · 2026

Platform Engineering untold truths: is just an infrastructure matter? thumbnail

Platform Engineering untold truths: is just an infrastructure matter?

Graziano Casto

LIVE · Oct 2024

Stop Renaming Teams, Start Product Thinking: A PM's Guide to Platform-as-a-Product thumbnail

Stop Renaming Teams, Start Product Thinking: A PM's Guide to Platform-as-a-Product

Dominik Schmidle · Giant Swarm

World Congress Europe · 2026

From Pipelines to Platforms: How DevOps Automation Becomes a Force Multiplier at Scale thumbnail

From Pipelines to Platforms: How DevOps Automation Becomes a Force Multiplier at Scale

Anna Ozor · Andersen Lab

Europe Virtual · 2026

Overcoming bottlenecks of Platform Teams thumbnail

Overcoming bottlenecks of Platform Teams

Candost Dagdeviren · SumUp

World Congress · 2025

Forget Developer Platforms, Think Developer Productivity! thumbnail

Forget Developer Platforms, Think Developer Productivity!

Robert Hoffmann +1

LIVE · Apr 2024

Related articles

AB

Andre Braun, GitLab

Now is the time for industrialized software development

Now is the time for industrialized software development Recently, I received a letter from my car’s manufacturer alerting me to a recall. They had discovered a defective part and wanted to replace ...

over 1 year ago

A person developint HTML on a laptop with the sun shining on it.

DC

Daniel Cranney

Why developer experience matters

With technology embedded in almost every aspect of life, and with developers building and maintaining these tools, it’s ensuring that developers operate in the digital world with speed and efficien...

almost 2 years ago

Why developer experience matters

DC

Daniel Cranney

How Engineering Hubs Build Visibility at Developer Conferences like WeAreDevelopers World Congress

Engineering hubs don’t attend developer conferences for brand awareness in the traditional sense. They attend to build technical visibility, employer branding, and credibility with developers. At l...

8 months ago

A developer representing a company talking to a conference attendee

DC

Daniel Cranney

Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. Developers Decide What Actually Gets Deployed.

Everyone thinks CISOs make the final call on security tools. But in modern software organisations, adoption starts long before the boardroom, inside CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and pull r...

9 months ago

A room full of people at a tech conference

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.

Principal Product Manager, Platform

San Francisco, CA, United States

Expert Github Data Analytics Machine Learning

Staff Product Manager, Platform

San Francisco, CA, United States

Expert Github Data Analytics Machine Learning

Senior Software Engineer, Compute Platform

Expert $339k Remote Ruby Istio Linux

13 days ago •

Software Development Engineer 5

Bengaluru, India

Expert Hybrid · 3 days on-site Java Python Spring Boot

Software Engineer, Platform Access L2

Beverly Hills, CA, United States

Starter $116k Remote YAML Okta Golang

13 days ago •

Director of Engineering - Data Platform SDM5

Bengaluru, India

Expert Hybrid · 3 days on-site ETL Spark Java EE