Building golden paths through continuous developer feedback

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🗣️ Speaker: Nisal Wickramage, Senior Consultant at Thoughtworks

Golden paths are a key concept in platform engineering, designed to reduce cognitive load and improve consistency in mature engineering organizations. However, for organizations in growth phases, defining these paths too early can limit teams and lead to constant adjustments by platform engineers.

This talk presents a thought experiment: What if we let golden paths emerge through continuous feedback from development teams instead of designing them upfront?

Nisal will discuss a lightweight platform approach utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Git, and CI/CD. This method allows platform capabilities to be built from reusable components, enabling centralized improvements and the gradual evolution of successful patterns into organizational standards. The platform adapts alongside the teams that utilize it, rather than trying to predict every future requirement.

Whether you're developing your first internal platform or supporting a growing engineering organization, you'll gain practical insights for creating platforms that are lightweight today and can evolve into the golden paths of tomorrow.

📍 Location: 18 Cross St, #12-01 18 CROSS, Singapore 048423, meetup1, Singapore

💰 Admission: Free