Platform Engineering Meets AI, Guardrails, Golden Paths & Serverless

Kia Ora everyone!!

We’re excited to invite you to the April'26 Serverless + Platform Engineering NZ meetup!
We’re thrilled to host Zac Law, Solution Engineer @ [[Port.io](http://port.io/)]

Paving the Path: Platform Engineering Meets AI — Guardrails, Golden Paths & Going Serverless

Abstract:
For years we've built golden paths for developers and engineers, improving standardisation, compliance and user experience. As platform teams increasingly pave the way for serverless-first architectures and self-service infrastructure, the question becomes obvious: when it comes to AI, why wouldn't we try and do the same? Like a human, AI still needs context, guardrails and guidance to produce the required result especially when it comes to doing things your way, on your platform.

Description:
"Bringing AI into your engineering org is a lot like hiring a junior dev it can look things up, it can write some code, it can even deploy a feature all the way into prod. We give engineers SOPs, documentation and golden paths so that they can't stray too far off into the wilderness. AI can act autonomously, but what happens when, as part of a deployment, the agent decides that it should delete all your data before making a schema change to your DB? Or spins up a fleet of always-on compute when your platform is built around event-driven, serverless patterns?
AI should be like any member of your engineering team. It should have the same access to those SOPs, documentation and most importantly, golden paths for it to follow. AI lacks context — it might know how to write some Terraform to spin up an S3 bucket, but does it know the way that you spin up an S3 bucket? Does it know your platform favours Lambda over containers, or that your org routes everything through an API Gateway with a specific auth pattern? The same internal developer platforms we build to guide human engineers, the templates, the guardrails, the paved roads are exactly what AI agents need too.
AI also needs a golden path."

Agenda
5:30 pm: Welcome & Networking with Pizza and refreshments.
6:00 pm: Paving the Path: Platform Engineering Meets AI — Guardrails, Golden Paths & Going Serverless
6:45-7:30 Networking and Q&A
Important information

• Bring a valid ID with you, as our meetup is happening at the Serko offices, and your ID may be checked at reception.

How to find us:
Come to First floor at Unit 14C & D/125 The Strand, Parnell, Auckland 1010