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TDC São Paulo 2022 - Interaction between platform teams and developers: how should it be?
This week I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk about platform teams on the DevOps track of The Developer Conference (TDC) São Paulo 2022, the biggest event on software development in Brazil. I thank very much Fabricia Dora and all the coordination for welcoming me, as well as I thank all the support staff. It was fantastic! In particular, we were able to hold a highly interactive session, in which the audience shared their experiences with platform teams.
Synopsis of the lecture:
Platform teams have been an option for dealing with the quandary of division of labor between infrastructure and development groups, resulting in the acceleration of continuous delivery. In this paradigm, developers autonomously use the platform to deploy and operate their services. So they don’t need to interact with the platform team on a daily basis. However, even so, there is no point in having the platform without certain patterns of collaboration between the platform team and developers. These patterns of collaboration, presented in this lecture based on my doctoral research at USP, are what make the paradigm of platform teams healthy and sustainable.
