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45 min

Building a Platform for Operational Success

Create a “golden path” to success with platform engineering.

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Do your users struggle with juggling too many tools, processes, and frameworks? In this on-demand webinar, thought leaders explore how platform engineering can transform your organization’s software delivery process by streamlining workflows, improving security and driving efficiency.

The Value of Platform Engineering

Platform engineering is the practice of treating infrastructure and operations as products. It’s all about creating an internal developer platform that centralizes resources, standardizes processes and enables self-service deployment by developers, occasional users and IT operations teams across various environments — on-premises, in the cloud, on the edge or anywhere workloads need to run.

The Golden Path Approach

By implementing a golden path approach, organizations can break down silos, simplify infrastructure and improve consistency while empowering developers to focus on building great products.

Key highlights include:

Improved Speed and Reliability

Standardized pipelines and reusable components ensure faster and more reliable workload delivery. Automation and self-service capabilities reduce bottlenecks and empower development teams to move quickly and efficiently.

Strengthened Security

Built-in guardrails and security integration ensure compliance with critical requirements like peripheral component interconnect (PCI) audits while reducing human error. The platform brings security into the automation pipeline for a seamless, monitored and protected approach to deploying software.

Enhanced Developer Experience

By centralizing tools and resources with a simplified application programming interface (API) layer, users can enjoy greater flexibility in tooling and deployment options while you enable self-service capabilities. The focus is on removing friction, enabling teams to do their best work with minimal delays.

Actionable Insights With FinOps

Cost visibility and analysis are integrated into deployment decisions, allowing organizations to make smarter, value-driven choices while managing expenses.

Full Stack Observability and Monitoring

To ensure reliability, effective troubleshooting and ongoing optimizations, the webinar also emphasizes a servant leadership mindset, encouraging organizations to design platforms with the needs of developers, security and operations teams in mind.

Practical Platform Engineering Strategies

Whether you’re just starting to explore platform engineering or looking to refine your internal developer platform, the insights in this webinar provide practical strategies you can apply immediately. From reducing errors to accelerating time to market, platform engineering can help your teams achieve their goals more 

Watch the full webinar on demand to learn how to streamline your development processes and pave the way for long-term success.

Learn how to streamline your development processes and pave the way for long-term success.

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Roger  Haney

Roger Haney

Chief Architect for Software-Defined Infrastructure, CDW

Roger Haney currently serves as CDW’s chief architect for software-defined infrastructure, leading technical efforts around the “4th Cloud” and covering all on-premises, colocated and hybrid cloud architectures for CDW. He currently focuses on architecture modernization, container-first strategies, hybrid cloud platform engineering operations design and Operator Framework automated operations. He