Webinars

Bad abstractions: 5 practical rules for building successful platforms

January 28, 2025

7:00 pm

CET

1:00 PM

EDT

45 min

Bi-weekly

In this webinar, Natan Yellin will explore 5 practical rules for building effective platforms with a great developer experience. He will examine the do’s and don’ts for platform building, the practical rules for deciding what, and when to abstract, and why platform teams might be making a mistake focusing on abstracting away a well developed but complex underlying platform like Kubernetes. Natan will share his experience as an engineer and his experience working with customers building enterprise platforms.

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In this talk you will learn:

What to abstract and not to abstract
How the abstractions you choose will later impact the burden (and joy) of supporting teams that use your platform
Shortcuts for reducing the support burden from platform users, and how to make developer self-service a reality

Audience - who should join?

Platform engineers, platform architects, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), infrastructure and operations, security engineers, enterprise and solution architects, application developers with an affinity for platform engineering and technical management focusing on improving DevEx and ops efficiency.

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Natan Yellin

Cofounder, Robusta.dev

Natan Yellin is the creator of HolmesGPT and Robusta - the leading open source AIOps platform for reducing your company’s mean-time-to-response with automatic AI investigations of Prometheus alerts. He works with enterprises running Kubernetes at scale, and helps them succeed with Prometheus monitoring and Kubernetes incident response.