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Welcome to Platform Engineers Sydney!
This is a group for engineers to learn and discuss all things internal tooling, platform teams and internal developer platforms. Every week, we interview some of the best DevOps minds in the industry.
We recently launched our new home, where you can find expert talk recordings, platform tooling resources and links to upcoming events. Check it out at[ https://platformengineering.org/](https://platformengineering.org/)
Our Slack community is now on 6k+ members - the largest dedicated platform engineering community out there. If you want to dive deeper and connect with other platform nerds 👉 join here!
If you would like to speak at one of our meetups, use this form to submit a talk request.
Good to have you onboard!
Upcoming events
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- Network event
•OnlineHow to scale automated testing beyond CI/CD pipelines
Online334 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.
5 attendees from this group - Network event
•OnlineHow artifact caching and virtual registries can supercharge your CI/CD
Online104 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.
1 attendee from this group - Network event
•OnlineOne environment to rule them all: How mirrord eliminates dev environment chaos
Online1 attendee from 40 groupsPlease sign up here to get the confirmation
Do you really need to spin up dozens of near-prod environments to support your developers? Spoiler: you don't.
Most teams spin up isolated development environments for each developer which are expensive, hard to maintain, and often not even faithful to production. In this webinar, we'll show you how mirrord lets every developer safely treat your shared staging environment as their own, directly from their local machine. No more sky-high infra bills. No more surprise bugs in prod.
Join us to learn how you can:
- Let devs test against staging safely, without affecting each other's work
- Run code locally but have it behave like it was running in your staging environment
- Reduce infra complexity and cost by consolidating environments
After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.
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Speaker:
Arsh Sharma - Senior DevRel @ MetalBearArsh is a Senior DevRel Engineer at MetalBear and a CNCF Ambassador. He has previously been awarded the Kubernetes Contributor Award. He loves tinkering with new projects in the cloud ecosystem and writing about his learnings. He has worked in the platform engineering space during the last three years and was part of the open-source Kubernetes team at VMware prior to that. He has also contributed to CNCF projects such as cert-manager and Kyverno. Arsh has written blogs and delivered talks on various topics in the cloud ecosystem.
Past events
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