What’s the difference between productivity engineering and platform engineering? How can you continue to re-platform with a moving target? On this episode, we’re joined by Andy Glover, who spent ten years productivity engineering at Netflix, to discuss.

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Andy Glover – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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ReadySet

WTA: What the Acronym?

K8s - Kubernetes numeronym
O11y - Observability
I18n - internationalization
A11y - accessibility
Y2k - millennial tech problem

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