Cognitive overload is the limit on information processing, while platform engineering builds frameworks to enable developers safely and quickly.
Vodafone's "Tech 2025" initiative aims to transform the company by hiring 7,000 software engineers and building in-house scaled platforms.
As engineering teams scaled, they faced misaligned teams, environment drift, and a lack of end-to-end ownership for services.
Key principles like immutability, disposability, and version control for all code and configuration were established to ensure consistency.
A Slack bot automated the creation of repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure, abstracting away complexity for developers.
By removing all manual access and rebuilding environments through code, the team achieved consistency and improved availability by 1.5%.
The initial UK-based platform was successful but siloed, leading to a new global strategy called TAZ (Telco as a Service) to unify standards.
A walkthrough shows how the new platform enables developers to create and deploy a new service to production in under 20 minutes.
The platform is built by stitching together reusable, open-source modules from different global teams, such as Argo CD and EKS modules.
The platform enables global scale and developer autonomy, with a future vision of a "shopping cart" experience for infrastructure components.
The discussion covers cost management, gaining team buy-in through white papers, and the ambition to fully open-source the platform.
ROSEN Technology and Research Center GmbH
Lingen (Ems), Germany
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57:45Robert Hoffmann & Christian Denich
29:26Bastian Heilemann & Bruno Margula
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