---
title: "Platform Engineering in the Wild | ELC Meetup #26"
description: "📌 Metrics, Missteps & Lessons Learned Platform engineering promises a lot, but what does it actually deliver? This session goes beyond the buzzwords to ex"
url: "https://www.engineeringleaders.io/event/platform-engineering-in-the-wild-26/"
lang: "en"
image: "https://www.engineeringleaders.io/_astro/hero-bg.CqYte35i.jpg"
---

#26 Meetup  |  April 25, 2025

# Platform Engineering in the Wild

![Platform Engineering in the Wild](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/_astro/26.dhFp2O5M_2godDl.webp)

📌 Metrics, Missteps & Lessons Learned

Platform engineering promises a lot, but what does it actually 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 actually 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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#41Meetup · Prague

### [Private Boat Party: Thank You, Speakers](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/event/private-boat-party-thank-you-speakers-41)

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