The platform engineering playbook for velocity, quality, and AI readiness at SIXT
00:00 Going from two releases a month to 10,000 deployments at SIXT.
07:31 Why velocity and quality are not a trade-off at scale.
11:34 The pull and push strategy for driving platform adoption.
16:07 How standardization positioned SIXT for the AI era.
23:21 Why AI is changing what platform standardization even means.
30:48 Measuring platform ROI and what to prioritize starting from scratch.
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Boyan Dimitrov, CTO at SIXT. Boyan shares how SIXT went from releasing software once or twice a month to nearly 10,000 deployments per month, and explains the platform engineering philosophy that made it possible.
Boyan and Ganesh discuss why velocity and quality don't have to be a trade-off, how SIXT's standardization work paid off unexpectedly when AI arrived, and what it looks like to build a platform that earns its own adoption. They also get into how to measure platform value with cycle time and product ROI, and what starting from scratch would look like in an AI-first world.
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