Adrian Cockcroft is an independent technologist and strategist with broad experience from the bits to the boardroom, in both enterprise and consumer-oriented businesses, from startups to some of the largest companies in the world, equally at home with hardware and software, development and operations.
He’s best known as the cloud architect for Netflix during their trailblazing migration to AWS and was a very early practitioner and advocate of DevOps, microservices, and chaos engineering, helping bring these concepts to the wider audience they have today. Adrian spent his last few years as a VP at Amazon, before retiring in 2022, deeply immersed in the dual challenges of helping Amazon itself – one of the largest companies in the world – become more sustainable, and via AWS – one of the largest technology suppliers in the world – helping its enterprise and public sector customers become more sustainable.
I have trained an AI Persona with lots of my technical content, and you can ask questions at Soopra.ai
I will discuss how I think platforms should be structured, and why it’s always plural, there isn’t one platform or one platform team. I base this on four principles. The first principle: it isn’t one platform, The second principle: platform layers are dynamic. The third principle: the interface should be driven by the users of the platform. The fourth principle: a clear distinction should be made ...