Future Trends

Exploring technologies and practices that are reshaping how teams build and operate systems.

Topics

AI-assisted operations

• AI for incident summarisation — promise and limits
• Copilot agents in platform engineering

Platform engineering

• IDP maturity model for NZ-scale teams
• Backstage vs custom portals — a pragmatic view

Edge and distributed compute

• When edge makes sense for Aotearoa latency
• Distributed systems at the edge

Sustainability

• Measuring cloud carbon footprint
• Region selection and environmental impact

Regulatory and sovereignty

• Data residency considerations for NZ organisations
• Privacy Act and cloud architecture