Llywelyn Griffith-Swain
Reducing Cognitive Overload Through Platform Engineering
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Defining cognitive overload and platform engineering
Cognitive overload is the limit on information processing, while platform engineering builds frameworks to enable developers safely and quickly.
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Vodafone's mission to become a technology company
Vodafone's "Tech 2025" initiative aims to transform the company by hiring 7,000 software engineers and building in-house scaled platforms.
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The initial challenges of scaling microservices
As engineering teams scaled, they faced misaligned teams, environment drift, and a lack of end-to-end ownership for services.
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Establishing core infrastructure as code principles
Key principles like immutability, disposability, and version control for all code and configuration were established to ensure consistency.
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The first platform solution using a Slack bot
A Slack bot automated the creation of repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure, abstracting away complexity for developers.
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Applying IaC principles to achieve zero-touch environments
By removing all manual access and rebuilding environments through code, the team achieved consistency and improved availability by 1.5%.
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Lessons learned and the shift to a global platform
The initial UK-based platform was successful but siloed, leading to a new global strategy called TAZ (Telco as a Service) to unify standards.
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Demo of the new global platform (TAZ)
A walkthrough shows how the new platform enables developers to create and deploy a new service to production in under 20 minutes.
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How the global platform reuses open source components
The platform is built by stitching together reusable, open-source modules from different global teams, such as Argo CD and EKS modules.
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The business impact and future platform vision
The platform enables global scale and developer autonomy, with a future vision of a "shopping cart" experience for infrastructure components.
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Q&A on cost, adoption, and open source plans
The discussion covers cost management, gaining team buy-in through white papers, and the ambition to fully open-source the platform.
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