SREDay London 2025: When Platform Engineers meet SREs

I'm going to be at SREday London from 27-28 Mar 2025 with my co-presenter Graziano Casto, developer relations engineer at Mia-Platform sharing a platform engineering meets SRE story.

This event is two days and focused on Site Reliability, DevOps, and Cloud with three tracks of talks. The venue will be the Everyman Canary Wharf, a rather hip location for this event and should be a lot of fun meeting with attendees and speakers.

Graziano and I met a few years ago at Platmosphere and we've since been sharing topics of platform engineering and observability. This has led us to several events, including SREDay in Amsterdam last year and now London this year!

Below you will find the abstract for the story we plan to share.

This collaboration story is about bringing observability to the foundations of your developer experience, ensuring it's a first class citizen in the platforms you are engineering from day one while discovering that it's giving SREs their super powers.

When Platform Engineers meet SREs: The Birth of Observability-as-a-Service Superpowers

Monitoring the behavior of a system is essential to ensuring its long-term effectiveness. However, managing an end-to-end observability stack can feel like stepping into quicksand, without a clear plan you’re risking sinking deeper into system complexities.

In this talk, we’ll explore how combining two worlds—developer platforms and observability—can help tackle the feeling of being off the beaten cloud native path. We’ll discuss how to build paved paths, ensuring that  adopting new developer tooling feels as seamless as possible. Further, we’ll show how to avoid getting lost in the sea of telemetry data generated by our systems. Implementing the right strategies and centralizing data on a platform ensures both developers and SREs stay on top of things. Practical examples are used to map out creating your very own Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with observability integrated from day 1.

Time: 11:00-11:30

Date: 28 Mar 2025

Location: Screen 3, Everyman Canary Warf

Looking forward to seeing the reactions to our story and chatting about all things platform engineering with observability mixed in!