#26 Meetup  |  April 24, 2025

Platform Engineering in the Wild

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“Platform Engineering in the Wild” is ELC Meetup #26, held at Ataccama Software in Prague on 24 April 2025.

The Engineering Leaders Community meets every month. Join ELC to get the next invite, or pitch a talk for a future night.

📌 Metrics, Missteps & Lessons Learned

Platform engineering promises a lot, but what does it deliver?

This session goes beyond the buzzwords to explore the real challenges, trade-offs, and hard-earned lessons of building and scaling internal platforms.

🤝 In collaboration with our partner Ataccama, we’re bringing together seasoned voices who’ve seen it all, what breaks, what scales, and what no one tells you in the playbooks.

What’s on the agenda?

📊 The platform metrics that matter, and the ones that lead you straight into a trap

⚠️ Common missteps that derail even the best teams (and how to course-correct)

🔄 The messy side of implementation, unexpected resistance, rebuilds, and rare wins worth celebrating

Join us for an honest, practical conversation on what it really takes to make platform engineering work, out of the slides and into the wild.

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For you

Want more than one evening on platform engineering?

A 2-day course for directors and VPs of engineering: multi-team org design, AI budgets and a manager pipeline.

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For companies

Want a night like this at your office?

Your venue, your speaker, ELC runs the rest: 120+ engineering leaders registered and €3,000 when you host.

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