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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
•OnlineScaling evaluation systems for agentic platforms from prototype to prod
Online204 attendees from 40 groupsPlease, register for the event here
This webinar looks to develop strategies for mastering cost-effective AI agent evaluation at scale using stratified sampling, risk-based testing, and multi-stage screening to cut costs while maintaining enterprise-grade quality control.
This webinar will share key insights on AI agent evaluation and highlight how to:
- Cut evaluation costs through stratified sampling across personas and risk-based prioritisation, focusing resources on high-impact, high-variance scenarios rather than exhaustive testing.
- Build progressive evaluation systems using multi-stage screening that catches obvious issues cheaply, then applies deeper evaluation only where needed - balancing "vibes" for content vs rigorous testing for critical processes.
- Implement enterprise-ready observability with OpenTelemetry telemetry, persona coverage maps, and continuous calibration frameworks that adapt as your agentic platform scales and models evolve
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.Disclaimer: We use Zoom for the webinar stream. The link to the webinar will be sent upon your registration to your email.
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Speaker:
Glyn Darkin - Global Head of Delivery @ ClearRouteHaving worked in roles ranging from cold caller, marketer and lead engineer in several start-ups to Chief Architect in a Global SI, Glyn Darkin’s jack-of-all-trades aptitude and engineer’s mindset is a winning combination in his role as Global Head of Delivery. Quick to grasp the most convoluted business issue, he has an impressive track record of using technology to solve client problems. His past achievements include developing an award-winning digital mortgage product for a leading bank, and building TescoEntertainment
Fascinated by AI, Glyn’s current obsession is staying ahead of the sweeping changes it brings. At home, he spends his evenings coding to fully understand how the technology will affect not only ClearRoute’s ways of working, but the types of products and platforms we implement for our customers.
3 attendees from this group - Network event
•OnlineHow to scale automated testing beyond CI/CD pipelines
Online284 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 - Network event
•OnlineHow artifact caching and virtual registries can supercharge your CI/CD
Online0 attendees from 39 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.
Past events
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