Philip is a Software Engineer in the Platform team at Grafana Labs, where they help develop the internal platform tools that support engineers across the organisation. 

Before joining Grafana, they worked as a Platform Engineer and SRE, helping run and evolve data platforms. This experience includes building automation, refining CI/CD workflows, and improving the reliability and usability of internal developer tooling. They have a strong interest in streamlining cloud-native workflows and enabling teams to ship software more confidently.

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Renovate Your Life: How we automated dependency updates for 1,300 Repos (and lived to tell the tale)

Picture this: you're managing dependencies across 1,300+ repositories, security vulnerabilities pile up faster than dishes in a university dorm, and developers spend more time updating package.json than building features. That was us at Grafana Labs. 

What started as "let's try this [Renovate](https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate) thing" became a full automation and o11y adventure. 

If you're wondering whether large-scale dependency automation is worth it, this talk provides the roadmap we wish we'd had.

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