Here's what platform engineers won't say out loud: very few can answer the question "Was it worth it?". This talk tries to help you answer that.

Everyone knows that to call the win you first need to measure success; the hard part: knowing what to measure. This is where people start shopping: DORA, SPACE, DevEx, MONK/MOCK, Scorecards, OKRs and more. So many frameworks, yet 30% of organizations still don't measure anything at all (I guess they didn't know what to pick), while others pick one or two and hope they work.

After building multiple platforms with tools such as Kubernetes Operators, Terraform, Crossplane, pipelines and good old Java, let me tell you what we measured and what really mattered. In every journey, the real challenge wasn't picking a framework: it was figuring out what success actually meant, and then measuring it without losing sight of what we were aiming for.

Let's walk through these frameworks so that you can bring home a "slightly" opinionated approach on how to measure platform initiatives at Day 0 (still building), Day 1 (we got there), and Day 2 (it worked - now scale it, please).