The line between platform engineering and site reliability engineering has blurred, and that is a good thing. The Platform Engineering & SRE Summit brings practitioners from both disciplines together for a day of honest conversation about what it takes to run software reliably at scale - and what "scale" actually means for most organisations (hint: it is smaller than you think).

What to expect

A single-track programme with eight talks and one facilitated workshop. No sales pitches from vendors. The hallway track is as important as the stage - come ready to talk about what is broken in your organisation, because so is everyone else.

Programme highlights

• "Defining SLOs that your product team will actually respect" - the gap between what error budgets say and what the business hears
• "Internal developer platforms: the build-vs-buy decision in 2025" - Backstage, Cortex, and when a README in a monorepo is the right IDP
• "Incident management without the heroics" - on-call rotations that do not destroy engineers, blameless postmortems that produce real change
• "Observability on a budget" - structured logging, the OpenTelemetry collector, and Grafana Alloy for teams that cannot afford Datadog
• "Toil quantification" - measuring what automation is worth before you write a single line of code
• "Platform team as product team" - treating internal engineers as customers, writing user stories for developer tooling
• Workshop: SLO design sprint - two hours, your service, a real SLO definition with error budgets that make sense

Who should attend

SREs, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, and engineering managers responsible for reliability and infrastructure. Developers who want to understand the on-call side of the systems they build.