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Sure, internal portals promise order and consistency, but what happens when you’re left with a Rube Goldberg machine of half-baked integrations? Join the founder of Northflank at KubeCon for a wake-up call: what’s trendy may not be what’s right for your organization. It’s time to focus on what really matters—delivering workloads. For realz.
In this talk, you’ll hear why gluing together countless widgets and screens can leave you with an unwieldy UI that merely documents your workloads, rather than actively driving them forward. A new coat of paint doesn’t make your foundation sturdy. Sure, a system of record is helpful when you want to know who owns which service, but it doesn’t do much to accelerate deployments, avoid infrastructure toil, or streamline your developers’ experience. Why settle for an incomplete solution pioneered by a music-streaming service, leaving you to fill in the missing pieces?
Focus on what matters: enabling your engineers to ship workloads with ease—because customers don’t pay you to write YAML.
We’ll explore how the evolution of infrastructure-as-code paves the way for a proper app platform—one that handles everything from automated deployments across preview, staging, and production. You’ll discover how a platform for workload delivery can give your team the confidence to move fast while retaining the flexibility to pivot across clouds or on-prem, all with a consistent experience that developers actually enjoy using.
By the end of this session, you’ll have a blueprint for a platform that’s not just a pretty interface, but a true system of action—one that supports containers, databases, microservices, and even batch jobs, all accessible through a UI, GitOps, CLI, or API. If you’re ready to shift from endless portal-building to true workload delivery, this talk is for you. Get ready to unleash a new era of developer empowerment.
In this 5-minute session, Jabed Amin, Developer Relations at Cortex.io, will explain how platform engineers can enhance their impact by treating their Internal Developer Portal as a product. By understanding internal customers’ needs, prioritizing features, and ensuring a seamless developer experience, platform engineers can 10x their team’s productivity. Join us to discover how adopting this mindset can transform your platform engineering efforts into a high-impact, developer-centric initiative that empowers your teams and drives organizational success.
Jabed Amin represents Developer Relations at Cortex.io. With over 10 years of experience in various software roles and as a developer, he has worked with hundreds of companies, delivering enterprise solutions, providing technical leadership, and contributing thought-provoking insights... Read More →
As multi-cloud architectures evolve; Kubernetes has become essential for managing containerized workloads across diverse cloud compute providers. But how does this paradigm shift extend to the AI-native application landscape?
In this keynote, Nathan Goulding of Vultr explores how Kubernetes serves as a critical abstraction layer for running containerized AI models across GPU providers while simultaneously managing application logic across CPU providers. Discover a cutting-edge, serverless cloud compute platform purpose-built for AI-native applications. This innovative approach ensures code and model portability, delivering unparalleled freedom, flexibility, and choice for developers and businesses navigating the future of AI and multi-cloud architecture
Nathan Goulding is an entrepreneurial-minded, product-focused technical leader with over 20 years of infrastructure, platform, and software as-a-service experience. As SVP, Engineering at Vultr, Nathan leads the engineering and technical product management teams. Prior to Vultr, Nathan... Read More →
AI development agents are changing enterprise software, and the infrastructure decisions platform teams make today will determine their readiness for this change.
This session will cover the agentic enterprise maturity model, covering key dimensions across: -Security, identity, and access controls. -Testing and quality assurance. -Hardware and compute resources. -People resourcing and change management.
We'll address: -Building secure infrastructure for human and AI developers. -Critical technology choices and decisions for your next 18 months. -How not to make compromises across productivity, security, and compliance. -Lessons for platform teams from early adopter
Lou is a PM at Gitpod, working with enterprise customers from some of the world's largest financial, insurance, and healthcare providers. Previously, Lou has worked across developer experience and platform teams, serving 10M+ users globally.
I see you want to hire a developer to work on platform engineering, internal developer tooling, developer experience, and the overall generally intangible but admirable goal of "making life better for devs". That’s awesome; you've got one hell of a challenge ahead of you. This role is extremely difficult to hire for. In my opinion, and in my experience, it’s been the most difficult role in the company outside of senior leadership, and the most likely to fail; if there ever was a role that burns people out, it’s this one.
Come with Hazel as we draw on her experiences building platform teams and organizations in order to talk about making this platform engineering thing a reality. In doing so, we'll end up discussing topics such as
- The hiring pipeline and interview loop - Timing, politics, and the meta strategies - Getting to zero from negative - Avoiding pitfalls
Hazel spends her days working on building out teams of humans as well as the infrastructure, systems, and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. One of her favorite things is... Read More →
After releasing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model, the CNCF Platforms Working Group is now studying how companies enhance their platform maturity. One approach is treating platforms as products—viewing users as customers and ensuring the platform meets their needs.
To explore this, we conducted interviews and created a survey to gather information from various organizations. Our goal was to determine if they apply product thinking principles in their platform engineering efforts.
In this presentation, we will outline our research objectives and data collection methods. We will then share our initial findings, highlighting common strategies, challenges, and best practices in platform engineering. Attendees will learn how other companies build their platforms and how to apply these lessons to improve their own platforms.
Join us to discover our early findings and see how they can help you develop more effective, user-focused platforms in your organization.
Dominik is a Technical Product Manager at Giant Swarm and on a mission to simplify developers' lives by delivering intuitive developer platforms. He has been in the IT industry for over 9 years, starting his journey as a Full Stack Software Engineer falling in love with DevOps and... Read More →
I've spent most of my career focused on external products across startups, scaleups, and enterprises. From new product development to growth and optimization. As someone who's focused on overall business success, my focus has shifted towards helping companies develop a successful... Read More →
Building the right internal platform is only half the battle; driving adoption is the other.
This talk explores the critical, yet often overlooked, Go to Market(GTM) strategies that are required for successful platform launches. Based on their experience building and launching internal platforms, Erica and David will share practical, actionable techniques for communicating the value of your platform, engaging stakeholders and onboarding users. We'll examine how playbooks for product launches help you drive adoption of your platform.
We’ll discuss strategies for:
Platform Rollout
User Enablement
Feedback Gathering
Diving into gradual rollouts, positioning to drive platform adoption with targeted communication, training programs, and established feedback mechanisms.
By mapping these product launch techniques to platform launches, attendees will learn how to position, promote, and drive adoption of their platform as a compelling business offering.
David Stenglein is the owner of Missing Mass and a consultant with a focus on internal platforms. He has worked in engineering, consulting and product management roles at large and small companies. He has architected and built large public websites using cloud-native principles. During... Read More →
Erica is passionate about the arrow between the two boxes in the architecture diagram. How do we make that arrow easy to establish securely? And how can we observe and operate it? After over ten years in FinTech, primarily leading API Platform strategy and engineering teams, Erica... Read More →
What does it take to succeed in building an internal developer platform from scratch? Are you even ever truly starting "from scratch"? Join our panel of industry experts as they explore the messy, exhilarating, and sometimes frustrating early stages of IDP adoption in a playful, clickbait-style format.
We’ll tackle provocative topics like: * 5 Common Adoption Mistakes You’re Probably Already Making * Think You're in Control? The Shocking Truth About Ready-Made Solutions You Need to Know! * Your Platform Was Doomed From the Start—Here’s Why * Life-Changing Platform-Building Tools (Including One That Will Shock You) * We Thought We Didn’t Need a Product Owner—Here’s How It Went * You Built It. They Didn’t Come
Whether you’re looking to sidestep rookie mistakes or a seasoned pro, this lively discussion will be packed with real-world insights, actionable advice, and a touch of humour that will address the questions you need to ask as you take the leap into building better platforms.
Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across... Read More →
Whitney is a CNCF Ambassador who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, she has created and delivered two KubeCon keynotes, a VMware Explore keynote, and countless fun, funny, and informative community conference keynotes. You can... Read More →
Leena is a Senior Engineer at Chainalysis, the Blockchain data platform. With a strong focus on reducing friction and cognitive load for Chainalysis engineers, Leena is at the coal-face of DevProd and DevEx daily. When she's not busy optimising workflows, Leena enjoys playing the... Read More →
Ana Margarita Medina is a Sr. Staff Developer Advocate, she speaks on all things SRE, DevOps, and Reliability. She is a self-taught engineer with over 14 years of experience, focusing on cloud infrastructure and reliability. She has been part of the Kubernetes Release Team since v1.25... Read More →
Developers often spend hours configuring Kubernetes manifests, wrestling with CI/CD pipelines, or implementing the right network policy. Platforms help solve this by providing abstractions—simple interfaces that hide complexity. But here’s the challenge: the more we abstract, the more rigid our platforms become.
When teams need to deploy slightly differently, they either fight the platform or work around it. This is the Abstraction Debt Trap, where yesterday’s simplification becomes today’s bottleneck.
In this talk, I’ll introduce the concept of Abstraction Elasticity, a measurable way to build platform capabilities that bend without breaking. I’ll also show ways to implement composable abstractions, build APIs that adapt to team maturity, and create flexible guardrails.
Using examples and code, I’ll show you how to measure your platform’s abstraction health, implement adaptable interfaces, and build platforms that grow with your teams and not restrict them.
Sr Developer Advocate | CNCF Ambassador, InfraCloud Technologies
Manual tester turned developer advocate. I talk about Cloud Native, Kubernetes & DevOps to help others adopt cloud native. I also create content – blog posts, webinars – & host Twitter spaces and strongly believe in collaborative learning and growth. In addition, I'm also a... Read More →
Train companies know the importance of platforms and infrastructure, but what do we focus on while building platform services for critical systems that so many people rely on every day?
At BaneNOR, we have all the bells and whistles, and platforms of all sorts. Application, data, integration, and everything from state of the art technology, to legacy systems. How this is structured is a continuous work in progress and evolves in tandem with what the community discovers. Every day try to give developers a good place to run applications, while keeping stakeholders up to date, while keeping everything secure and compliant.
In this presentation we want to go through some of our strategic technical and sociotechnical choices, as well as pain points, pitfalls and low-hanging fruits. All on board the Platform Engineering express train!
Roberth is a self-proclaimed "cloud automator", and works primarily with Platform Engineering, DevOps and Cloud Native technology. Microsoft Azure MVP, CNCF Ambassador, and previously HashiCorp Ambassador. Additionally, he is active in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as co-chair... Read More →
Principal Cloud Enterprise Architect, Sopra Steria
Azure Cloud architect and C# developer with a passion for integration and automation. But wait, it's more! Passion does not only have to be in tech! There is also a burning passion for neurodiversity and diversity in tech, across ages, genders, identities, etc... Loves integration... Read More →
Spotify operates at a scale where billions of requests and countless user experiences depend on the seamless performance of its backend infrastructure. This talk delves into Spotify's journey toward a "fleet-first" mindset, an evolution designed to simplify and enhance the management of its vast and diverse software fleet. We’ll explore the principles behind Spotify’s shift to declarative infrastructure, which allows teams to define the desired state of their services with clarity and consistency, minimizing operational complexity. Additionally, we'll examine the strategies employed for fleet-wide refactoring, enabling Spotify to implement large-scale changes across its infrastructure with minimal disruption. Learn how Spotify leverages automated pipelines, standardized tooling, and organizational alignment to transform challenges into opportunities for innovation.
Sanjana is working on Fleet Management and Version Control Systems. She's passionate about reducing fragmentation in tech ecosystems, building innovative solutions for developers, and collaborating with diverse and talented teams. She helped expand the Fleet Management program at... Read More →
Most Internal Developer Platforms fail not because of technical limitations, but because they're built like infrastructure projects rather than products developers want to use. Drawing from our combined experience of implementing platforms across enterprises and different use cases, this talk provides practical insights into designing platforms that create real value. We'll explore why traditional infrastructure-first thinking leads to low adoption and how a product mindset transforms platform success. You'll learn how to identify actual developer needs, implement the right level of abstraction, and create platforms that evolve with your organization. Highlighting practical patterns for managing technical debt, implementing effective self-service capabilities, and measuring platform success through meaningful metrics will round up the session. You'll leave with concrete strategies for building platforms that developers choose to use rather than are forced to adopt.
Max is Founder and Cloud Native Advisor at Liquid Reply based in Munich. His focus is on building cloud-native solutions on/with Kubernetes and platform engineering to simplify the current challenges of complex target environments. He is Co-Chair of the CNCF Environmental Sustainability... Read More →
Hilliary is an autodidact and start-up veteran who has frequently learned and applied technologies to get a job done. She’s had her hand in every part of the application delivery process, honing in her skills originally as a QE engineer. Hilliary is an IT polyglot able to talk the... Read More →
Better developer experience. Release faster. Save costs. Cuts time to market.
We have heard it all. Is it really true?
Are purchase decisions (or green-lighting) made based on these promises? What makes an organization commit to Platform Engineering? Let's find out.
This lightning talk is about talking to a room full of engineers about the non-technical aspects of Platform Engineering, particularly sales. In my (limited) experience, engineers spectacularly fail to understand certain things beyond the programming realm, and sales is one of them.
Dissecting some sales techniques and applying them to platform projects, both internal and external, will help engineering teams justify platform efforts better. The few techniques highlighted in this talk will aid in bringing about a shared understanding of why a platform is needed and how best to communicate the impact of using one.
Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent... Read More →
Ever pushed a container to prod only to discover it had more CVEs than your morning coffee had beans? That was us - averaging 90+ critical vulnerabilities per week across 980 container images, with patch cycles slower than Windows XP updates. Worse? Our traditional scanning tools were flagging issues after images hit production, turning our registry into a vulnerability museum.
Join this lightening talk where Prerit will talk about how they built a game-changing platform that leverages Copa for real-time vulnerability scanning and hot-patching. Now they scan 100+ images daily, applying patches within 180 seconds of CVE detection, and stopping vulnerable containers before they even dream of production. The kicker? They reduced our vulnerability response time from 5 hours to under 5 minutes, while maintaining 99.99% deployment success rate.
Prerit is working as a Software Architect, directing his expertise towards harnessing Cloud Native Technologies to design resilient architectures that can seamlessly scale in the future, all while prioritizing technical cost, security, availability and end-user experience. As the... Read More →
Platform engineering goes beyond building internal tools—it’s about creating a culture that inspires collaboration, excitement, and a sense of ownership. This panel will explore how fostering these elements across teams accelerates platform adoption and drives impactful outcomes like innovation, stability, and long-term growth. Panelists will share real-world strategies for engaging engineers, gathering actionable feedback, and building alignment between platform teams and users. Whether you are starting fresh or scaling an established platform, join us to discover how community-driven enthusiasm can break down silos, spark advocacy, and create platforms that truly deliver value.
Matteo is a CNCF Ambassador and Cloud Native aficionado, a former startup CTO, DevRel and current Solution Engineer. Kubernetes open source contributor, part of the release team since v.1.31, Comms Release Lead for v.1.32 and Release Lead Shadow for v.1.33Hacker, builder and problem... Read More →
William is a CNCF Ambassador and currently working at Mirantis as a Consulting Architect. Focused in helping customers designing and building, and running their Internal Developer Platforms. He wore many hats, in Engineering, Pre-Post sales, Product Owner and Consulting. from HPC... Read More →
Cortney is a Developer Advocate at Kubeshop and a co-organizer of the CNCF Bilbao Community. Initially, a non-techie turned tech lover, she began her career as employee number 7 at a DevSecOps startup (acquired by DataDog) and wrote the newsletter and other content for the Data on... Read More →
Bart Farrell is a CNCF Ambassador and Freelance Content Creator, event host, and community consultant. He brings creativity and passion to everything he does, whether it's rapping about Kubernetes or producing creative videos to bring technical concepts to life. Bart engages with... Read More →
Kelly Revenaugh is the Developer Relations lead at Kubeshop, an open source accelerator building tools for developers and testers in the Kubernetes & cloud native space. She enjoys bringing members of the Cloud Native community together by organizing events such as Kubernetes Community... Read More →
