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Welcome to Platform Engineers Atlanta!
This is a group for engineers to learn and discuss all things internal tooling, platform teams and internal developer platforms. We try to have quarterly meetups in Midtown where we alternate between guest speaker events and community driven talks.
Quick note about registering to Events. Please use the name on the ID you plan to use when you get to the meetup. We cannot allow day of registrations and if your registered name does not match your ID you will not get in. This is a safety feature enforced by the security staff at our Google office and there are no exceptions we can give even if we wanted to.
Upcoming events
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- Network event
•OnlineHow to scale automated testing beyond CI/CD pipelines
Online402 attendees from 40 groups* Please register here
Discover why CI/CD pipelines weren’t built for today’s testing realities. As AI-driven development accelerates release cycles, traditional CI/CD pipelines are buckling under the weight of automated testing, leading to slower feedback, brittle environments, and rising infrastructure costs.
The truth is, CI/CD was designed for builds and deployments, not large-scale test execution. In this webinar, we’ll unpack why cloud-native leaders are moving beyond legacy pipelines and how purpose-built continuous testing platforms are helping teams achieve both speed and quality.
What attendees will learn during the webinar:
- Understand the architectural limits of CI/CD and how AI-driven development and rapid release cycles expose gaps in scalability, visibility, and reliability.
- Learn how leading engineering orgs unify test insights across tools, eliminate flaky environments with Kubernetes-native approaches, and cut infrastructure costs through smarter resource allocation.
- Discover how purpose-built continuous testing platforms, designed for speed, scale, and AI-enhanced delivery, are redefining how teams balance quality with velocity.
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Speaker:
Ole Lensmar - CTO @ TestkubeOle started building with XML APIs in the late 90s and has since then worked with multiple technologies and startups, most notably as creator of SoapUI in 2004 and Chairman of the Swagger / OpenAPI Initiative in 2015. He joined Testkube at its inception in 2021 and is now entirely focused on ensuring its success at bringing continuous testing to the cloud-native space. When not at his laptop he can be found playing a guitar or riding a bike, but rarely both at the same time.
4 attendees from this group 
Platform Engineering Executive Roundtable during KubeCon, Atlanta
Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Downtown, 275 Baker Street Northwest, Atlanta, GA, US👉 Register here
​​Gomboc, Thoughtworks and Platform Engineering are pleased to invite you to our executive roundtable on the impact and huge potential of platform engineering in Atlanta.
​We are bringing together a selected group of practitioners and leaders (from enterprises like McDonald’s, Boeing, Target, Mondelez International and others) to discuss key trends in platform engineering, tips and best practices from top performing teams, and guidance on how to use platform engineering to ensure success in your AI initiatives. There will be no presentations or product demos. Bring your stories, good or bad.
​During this roundtable, we’ll discuss:
- What the data tells us about platform engineering huge impact on AI success
- Blueprints from 100s of platform teams on how to ensure adoption, executive buy-in and platform success
- Calculating your platform's ROI: Metrics, measurement and more.
​** This is an invite only event. We will confirm your registration right away.
7 attendees- Network event
•OnlineHow artifact caching and virtual registries can supercharge your CI/CD
Online112 attendees from 40 groups* Please register here
Modern software has a lot of dependencies: software libraries, OS packages, container images, and orchestration scripts. At scale artifact registries become a bottleneck, slowing down CI/CD pipelines and decreasing developer efficiency. Caching artifacts near where they’re needed reduces latency, cost, and load. Learn how to leverage artifact caching by deploying a Virtual Registry.
- Identify and eliminate artifact bottlenecks in CI/CD pipelines & development workflows
- Reduce latency, scale dependency resolution and boost developer productivity by using the artifact caching capabilities of a virtual registry
- Cut egress, infrastructure, and license costs while scaling artifact registries.
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Speaker:
Thijs Feryn - Technical Evangelist @ Varnish SoftwareAs the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demonstrates content-driven and technical messaging through presentations, videos, books, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and other media. Thijs is a published author and wrote Getting Started with Varnish Cache and Varnish 6 by Example. As a public speaker, he has a track record of over 380 presentations in 26 different countries, where he is often praised for his energetic and engaging presentation style.
As an evangelist, Thijs is also active in many open-source communities, most notably the Varnish and PHP community. He has contributed to various communities for over 15 years both technically and as an organizer and facilitator. Prior to joining Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn spent 15 years in the web hosting industry, tackling web performance and scalability issues on a daily basis and evangelizing these topics.
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