Four days, 277 sessions, one brutal Sunday time slot: scheduling SCALE 23x as a platform team manager
There are 277 sessions at SCALE 23x this year. I know this because I extracted all of them from the schedule webarchive files and scored every single one.
I’m not proud of how long this took. But it surfaced some genuinely interesting tradeoffs — and the pattern of what conflicted with what tells you something real about where platform engineering is right now.
The scheduling problem is different when you manage a team # When I was an IC, conference scheduling was mostly about depth. Find the three talks that will blow your mind and plan the rest around them. Everything else is hallway track.