I recently shared what we learned from attending KubeCon NA and Platform Engineering Day in Salt Lake City, and I wanted to create a complementary post highlighting our talks.
The competition for speaking at KubeCon is fierce, and so we were privileged and super lucky (and a little bit skilled) to present five sessions!
Below are links to the talk titles, abstracts, and recordings; the transcripts are on YouTube.
Portals and Platforms, Two Ps in a Pod? How Good Interfaces Make for Good Operability
By Jorge Lainfiesta, Rootly & Abby Bangser, Syntasso
Platforms aren’t new, but intentional platform engineering is getting more widespread adoption. One area where organisations are investing heavily is the relationship between the “frontend” user interfaces that developers get value from (CLIs, portals, APIs) and the "backend" platform orchestration components that ops manage.
What should you, as a platform engineer, expect from your investments on each side? Over time, maintaining a portal and your platform orchestration becomes an important cost. But don't fret! Your platform can (and should) manage this ongoing maintenance for you, allowing you to focus on what you care about: improving developer experience and extending platform capabilities.
In this talk, Abby and Jorge will provide an overview of the challenges and solutions, and map this topic to the CNCF Platform Engineering Maturity Model. You will learn what you, as a platform engineer, should be demanding of your platform orchestration tooling and your portal.
Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions: The Practitioner Panel
With Paula Kennedy, Syntasso; Chris Plank, NatWest Bank; Suhail Patel, Monzo; Jinhong Brejnholt, Saxo Bank; Rachael Wonnacott, Fidelity International
In the world of small and large financial institutions, platform engineering is a driver for shipping quickly, safely, and efficiently. This panel brings together seasoned practitioners from leading banks and financial institutions to share their firsthand platform experiences, successes, and challenges.
Discover how platform engineering can enhance developer experience, facilitate rapid innovation and drive efficiencies.
Delve into the complexities of navigating regulatory compliance, specifically when using open source technologies such as Kubernetes.
Learn from the experts' successes, setbacks and strategies (across technology and people), gaining actionable insights for successful implementation.
Join us as we discuss the journey of adopting and deploying CNCF technologies at scale within the highly regulated financial sector. We’ll explore practical examples of both successes and incidents where things have gone wrong, providing the audience with valuable takeaways.
Creating Paved Paths for Platform Engineers
WithRitesh Patel, Nirmata; Abby Bangser, Syntasso; Viktor Farcic, Upbound; Nicholas Morey, Akuity; Praseeda Sathaye, Amazon
The platform engineering team's role has evolved into a pivotal one as the custodian of the internal developer platform. However, these teams often find themselves in a quagmire of identifying the right components to include in their platforms, particularly in the ever-expanding CNCF landscape.
This panel session discusses these challenges by exploring the concept of 'Paved Paths' as a strategic approach to guide platform teams in their journey of building an internal developer platform (IDP). 'Paved Paths' offers a solution by providing platform engineering teams with proven reference architectures (e.g. CNOE and the BACK Stack).
This approach prevents them from starting from scratch and getting lost in the vast CNCF landscape. By offering proven and opinionated reference architectures, platform teams can focus on enhancing developer experiences and optimizing higher-level workflows rather than grappling with the complexities of identifying foundational components for their IDP.
Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects
By Daniel Bryant, Syntasso
Building on my KubeCon EU 2022 talk, "From Kubernetes to PaaS to... err, what's next", I'll introduce the topic of platform engineering through the lens of a software developer and architect. My primary goal is for developers to understand "what good looks like" with a successful platform build and help them understand how a platform can influence the SDLC (for better or worse!)
Key takeaways from the session:
Explore how platform architecture influences software architecture and vice versa
Learn why the principles of coupling and cohesion apply to platform components (and configuration) in the same way as they do with software components
Understand what to expect from an effective platform, including how applications are built, shipped, and run
Learn about key platform metrics grounded in developer experience frameworks such as DORA, SPACE, and DevEx
Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure Oh My! What Is the TAG App Delivery Doing to Support You
With Daniel Oh, Red Hat; Roberth Strand, Sopra Steria; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft; Abby Bangser, Syntasso
TAG App Delivery focuses on how organizations can deliver cloud-native applications. To succeed, there are several hard questions that need to be answered:
How can platform teams do a better job of enabling developers?
How can developers help platform teams to understand better their development needs and their technology stack specific requirements?
Which artifacts will be created and by whom?
What does it take to provision a development environment? Which tools are involved?
This panel will highlight how the TAG Working Groups including App Development, Platform, Infrastructure, and Artifacts are helping build a unified view of how to successfully deliver cloud native applications at scale.
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