New York

October 15–17, 2025

Berlin

November 3–4, 2025

Rise of the platform (Team)

In this talk, you're going to learn what a platform team is, what they do, and why your business needs one.

Speakers: Jem Young

November 03, 2022

Understand why your business needs a platform team

As technology evolves, so does the complexity. Where once we could throw some simple JavaScript and HTML together to build a web application, modern web development requires expertise in a multitude of areas. At Netflix we leverage our web platform team to remove this complexity for UI engineers so they can get back to building and shipping features. In this talk, we’re going learn what a platform team is, what they do, and why your business needs one.