Luke Philips
Luke Philips is a Principal Engineer at FICO and Software A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶t̶e̶c̶t̶ Custodian. Trying to sweep together the best ideas from all sources. Previously of the New York Times, and a long career in Telecom at Charter, CenturyLink, and Level 3 Communications. With a mixed focus on continuous delivery, orchestration solutions, enterprise, Kubernetes, open source, networking, and cloud-native technologies. On the side Luke dabbles in Wardley Mapping and strategic proficiency.
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Session
Odysseus took ten years to get home. Your software just needs to reach production, but the voyage is every bit as cursed.
In this Ignite-paced romp through Homer's Odyssey, we sail the platform engineer's ship past a gauntlet of monsters, each one a hazard you have already met under a different name: the Lotus-Eaters of "we've always done it this way," the one-eyed Cyclops of zero observability, Aeolus's bag of winds (a.k.a. Friday night deployments), the impossible trade-off of Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens of shiny IT-ops nostalgia, and the sacred Cattle of the Sun you were explicitly told not to touch.
The lesson Odysseus learned the hard way, lash yourself to the mast, is the same discipline that gets your developers safely home to a platform they actually love.