Conf42 Platform Engineering 2026

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Conf42 Platform Engineering is a single-day online conference on the design and operation of internal developer platforms, part of the Conf42 series of free remote technical events. Platform engineering has emerged as a distinct discipline from DevOps practice, centred on treating internal tooling as a product with developers as its users. The conference addresses that reality directly: golden paths and paved roads, self-service infrastructure provisioning, developer portals and service catalogues, Kubernetes abstraction layers, and the measurement of platform adoption and developer experience. Sessions are drawn from teams operating platforms in production, which keeps the material anchored in the organisational and technical trade-offs that platform work actually involves — including where centralisation helps and where it becomes a bottleneck. The fully remote format eliminates travel cost and opens attendance globally, with recordings available after the live day. For platform engineers, infrastructure teams and engineering leaders building internal developer platforms, this online conference offers a concentrated view of current practice in a discipline still actively defining its own boundaries.