Ever received a ticket asking you to migrate everything to a tool you've never even heard of, 24 hours before the one you actually use gets decommissioned by another SRE team? Then keep reading, because this talk is for you.
In big organizations, platform engineering doesn't come from a single team; it's a shared effort across many specialized SRE teams like Compute, Observability, Networking, Security, and more. Each team has its own priorities and areas of expertise, but in the end, we're all working towards the same goal: making developers' lives easier and building a bulletproof platform.
This talk is about how we actually do that, not just the technical side, but how we align, communicate, and find common ground to deliver something that feels unified. We'll share real examples from our day-to-day: pre-built Helm blueprints for out-of-the-box observability, joint cost-saving efforts that made resource usage more transparent (and even got a nod of approval from FinOps), and more, all using open source tools.
This talk is led by two SREs who've been in the thick of these collaborations and have a few lessons (and maybe a few scars) to share. Attendees will walk away with practical tactics for cross-team alignment, examples of reusable tooling patterns, and the confidence to push back (constructively) when timelines get absurd.