The Common Platform has provided ITV’s developers with a cloud hosting and development platform on AWS for the last 10 years. During this time CP has continuously evolved, and late 2023 saw the successful launch of version 3 of the platform.

We will look back at the journey that the Platform has been on, before discussing the aims, rollout and achievements of CPv3, with its focus on balancing freedom with control – enabling effective developer self service without sacrificing best practice, reliability, security and operational excellence.

Bio: Tom has almost 10 years experience working in the Platform Engineering and DevOps space, having moved over from the world of Physics research. Since 2016 he has worked at ITV where he is now a Principal Platform Engineer in the Common Platform Team.