Why we skipped SRE and switched to Platform Engineering | Electrolux

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Platform engineering is changing how organizations scale reliability and autonomy. At Electrolux Group, working in the IoT space and growing from 10 to 300 developers with just five Ops engineers in four years, traditional SRE practices couldn’t keep up. So the team took a bold step—skipping conventional SRE and embracing #PlatformEngineering to empower developers and move faster. In this talk, Gang Luo, Site Reliability Engineering Manager, and Ramil Galimov, Senior Software Developer at Electrolux, share how they built an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that’s tightly connected to their cloud and toolchains—embedding SRE principles to improve productivity and launch new regions in a single day. They’ll walk through the platform’s architecture, automation strategies, and key lessons from their journey—covering scalability, self-service, and developer experience through automation, SaaS, and open-source collaboration. You’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at how Electrolux is transforming operations and inspiring the wider developer community through platform thinking. Learn more: If you’d like to learn more about us, click here: https://efcd.co/3QyEovk ---- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:04 Introduction of the speakers 00:47 Internal Developer Platform 01:37 Startup agility 02:07 Incident firefighting 03:33 Growth statistics 07:50 Automation 10:14 Internal platforms 11:14 EKS provisioning 11:53 Infrastructure management 13:50 The speed of autonomy 14:48 Service creation 17:09 Platforms as products 21:37 Summary 23:12 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) 24:09 Final words 24:23 Outro