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Pulling the Strings

Your Return-to-Office Plans Will Shape Your Platform. Here’s How.

Platform engineering is all about giving devs the tools they need to work independently. Work-from-home policies give people flexibility in where and how they work. It should be a match made in heaven, right? Well... it’s more complicated than that.

Research, feedback, and evangelizing are critical to building an internal developer platform (IDP). But WFH can make that communication tough. And that's before you’ve even considered compliance and security (ugh, the 2FA). A human-focused IT strategy was crucial in supporting a shift to remote work during the pandemic, and it's going to be equally as important as we shift to a platform paradigm.

In this roundtable discussion, Ben leads a roundtable discussion of how return-to-office plans can impact platform engineering, joined by Margaret Lee and David Sandilands, authors of Puppet's 2024 State of DevOps Report: Platform Engineering Edition.

Speakers:

  • Ben Ford, Community Lead at Puppet by Perforce
  • Margaret Lee, Manager of Product Management at Puppet by Perforce
  • David Sandilands, Senior Solutions Architect at Puppet by Perforce

Highlights:

  • The remote/in-office flexibility your platform needs to consider
  • Hardening measures essential to a secure IDP in the hybrid era
  • What we learned about accommodating a workforce during the pandemic
  • Evangelizing a platform without the in-person connection

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