As cloud-native environments grow more complex, platform engineering has emerged to help organizations streamline operations and scale their DevOps practices
In this webinar, Mallory will introduce the fundamentals of platform engineering, focusing on building your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP). She will outline a step-by-step process for launching your MVP and scaling it into a full-fledged, enterprise-ready solution.
Many organizations assume that adding Backstage to their infrastructure is enough to create a complete, and successful Internal Developer Platform. While Backstage can be a useful starting point, it alone isn't enough to realize the full potential of platform engineering. A true IDP requires more than just a frontend, it needs a robust, well-structured backend to deliver real value.
Join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll build a Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) from scratch with Humanitec. Learn how to set up a simple app with key dependencies like DNS, database, and a messaging queue while efficiently connecting your cluster, and configuring essential resources.
According to a recent study by Google, 80% of those surveyed believe platform engineering is key to the future of AI. We can already see how AI is rapidly transforming how enterprises approach technology, but managing the complexity of AI infrastructure remains a significant challenge. While AI accelerates innovation, it doesn't eliminate complexity, it simply shifts it. Only with a solid platform foundation can AI initiatives scale successfully without overwhelming your engineering teams with new tooling and infrastructure demands.
In this webinar, Mallory will guide you through the basics of platform engineering, emphasizing the development of your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP). She will present a clear, step-by-step approach to launching your MVP and expanding it into a robust, enterprise-ready solution.
How does a global print-on-demand giant build and scale their Internal Developer Platform? In this special episode of Platform Pirates, Mallory sits down with Nicholas Merritt, Technical Director at Cimpress/Vistaprint, to discuss how they leveraged Humanitec’s MVP program to roll out a scalable platform across their engineering organization. Learn how Vistaprint took the MVP fundamentals, adapted them for enterprise-scale adoption, and how Humanitec played a key role in the transformation. Stick around for a live audience Q&A to ask Nicholas your burning platform questions!
Many organizations mistakenly believe that integrating Backstage into their infrastructure automatically results in a complete Internal Developer Platform. While Backstage can serve as a helpful starting point, it falls short of unlocking the full potential of platform engineering. Real platform engineering goes beyond just a frontend like Backstage, it demands a powerful and well-designed platform backend to succeed.
How do you know if your Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is actually delivering value? In this episode of Platform Pirates, Mallory unpacks the Humanitec Success Metrics Framework, a practical approach to measuring platform impact beyond uptime and ticket volume. We’ll dive into key metrics like platform complexity, self-service adoption, and developer sentiment, and explore how to use data-driven insights to continuously improve your platform. Whether you’re building a new IDP or optimizing an existing one, this episode will help you track what really matters. Stick around for our live Q&A to discuss your own platform success challenges!
What’s next for Humanitec? Join Mallory as she sits down with Chris Stephenson, Humanitec’s CTO and Head of Product, for an exclusive look at our product roadmap. We’ll explore game-changing developments, including non-Kubernetes orchestration, fleet management, and how the Platform Orchestrator is evolving to meet the needs of modern platform teams. Plus, get a behind-the-scenes look at Humanitec’s product development process and participate in our live Q&A segment!
Platform engineering has emerged as a solution to the increasing complexity of cloud-native environments and the difficulties enterprises face in scaling DevOps.
Many companies aim to succeed in their Platform Engineering initiatives by reducing the cognitive load on product teams, improving productivity, and driving innovation. But how can they truly measure their success? Are they actually using any metrics? In this talk, Caio will demonstrate how to apply Lean principles and tools to achieve success in Platform Engineering. He will also highlight what you need to do to become a key contributor to these initiatives within your team or company.
Static configurations and brittle dependencies slow platform teams down—but what if you could map and manage them dynamically? In this episode of Platform Pirates, Mallory breaks down Humanitec’s Resource Graph, the engine behind real-time dependency mapping and adaptive resource orchestration. Learn how it eliminates manual config headaches, keeps dependencies in sync automatically, and provides full visibility into how workloads interact with resources. We’ll show you how to leverage the Resource Graph in your own platform, why it’s a game-changer for scalability and resilience, and answer your questions during our live Q&A!
In this webinar, Scott Rosenberg will break down how to build and run successful Internal Developer Platforms while ensuring the effective onboarding and management of on-prem environments. As too often the enterprises with the most opportunity for the efficiency gains of platform engineering, are held back by the complicated nature of their legacy systems. Scott will examine how you can still ensure an effective platform without needing to rely purely on new and easy greenfield applications.
Kick off Platform Pirates, Humanitec’s brand-new weekly live show sailing the high seas of Platform Engineering, with Mallory, our Principal Platform Advocate! In this inaugural episode, we’ll break down what a Platform Orchestrator is, why it’s the key to unifying your Internal Developer Platform, and how Humanitec’s Platform Orchestrator can streamline platform operations. We’ll also introduce the show’s format, preview upcoming topics, and open the floor for live audience Q&A—don’t miss it!
In this webinar, Mallory will walk you through the fundamentals of platform engineering, with a focus on creating your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP). She will provide a straightforward, step-by-step guide to help you launch your MVP and scale it into a powerful, enterprise-ready solution.
Join CNCF Ambassador and Humanitec Platform Architect Mathieu Benoit for a practical workshop on platform engineering. Explore how to automate and standardize infrastructure using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Backstage, Score, and the Humanitec Platform Orchestrator. Learn to build developer-friendly golden paths while leveraging best practices in platform technology.
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.
Many organizations mistakenly assume that simply integrating Backstage into their infrastructure creates a complete Internal Developer Platform. While it provides a convenient starting point, Backstage alone isn’t sufficient to unlock the full potential of platform engineering. True platform engineering goes beyond just the frontend (Backstage); it also requires a robust and effective platform backend.
In this webinar, Mallory will guide you through the essentials of platform engineering, focusing on building your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP). She'll offer a clear, step-by-step approach to help you launch your MVP and evolve it into a robust, enterprise-ready solution.
Discover how platform engineering has evolved, including the growing focus on infrastructure platform engineering, the rise of Platform Orchestrators, and real-world trends in platform maturity and adoption. Dive into new State of Platform Engineering volume 3 report’s almost 30 pages of data from 100s platform teams to help enhance your platform engineering journey with practical takeaways and expert analysis.
Platform Engineering revolves around finding the most suitable abstraction for the complex challenges encountered during the development process. With Crossplane, you can establish one such abstraction layer for cloud infrastructure and application deployment across multiple providers. It is built on the stable Kubernetes API, known for its reliability over recent years.
​​Platform engineering has emerged in response to the growing complexity of cloud native and the challenge of scaling DevOps to the enterprise.
When enterprise teams start their platform engineering journey or scale up their Internal Developer Platform (IDP) initiative, they typically aim to reduce manual maintenance and ticket ops through standardization and automation.
From experience working on digital transformations at Fortune 500 companies, Dean will break down how to rapidly start delivering value to internal customer teams for your organization. By focusing on adoption rate as a key metric, he will break down some of the major pitfalls and challenges that negatively impact new platform teams, especially those at large organizations.
​Platform engineering has emerged in response to the growing complexity of cloud native and the challenge of scaling DevOps to the enterprise.
As AI reshapes software development, platform engineering teams must adopt AI-powered tools, including autonomous agents, or risk falling behind. Learn how Palo Alto Networks has transformed its platform engineering practice, using AI to autonomously execute 89,000+ production changes with zero incidents, saving thousands of engineering hours and $3.5M in cloud costs.
Platform engineering is far more than a technical topic. More than you might think, the real challenges and questions of platform engineering are on the topic of business value, and managing IT. This event will examine how to approach platform engineering through an ROI perspective, and how to approach platforms to ensure that they succeed, alongside discussing whether platforms topic primarily for managers, or for engineers.
In this webinar, Mallory will walk you through the fundamentals of platform engineering with a focus on your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP). She will provide a straightforward, step-by-step guide to help you launch your MVP and develop it into a powerful, enterprise-ready solution.
Join CNCF Ambassador and Humanitec Platform Architect, Mathieu Benoit, for a hands-on platform engineering workshop. Learn how to build golden paths for developers, automate and standardize infrastructure, utilizing best-in-breed platform tools and tech like Backstage, Score, Humanitec Platform Orchestrator, Kubernetes and Terraform.
Platform engineering has emerged in response to the growing complexity of cloud native and the challenge of scaling DevOps to the enterprise. GitLab and Red Hat are pleased to invite you to our executive roundtable on the impact of platform engineering.
In 2019, Anthony Alaribe led a legacy service rewrite at Delivery Hero which turned out poorly, due to a single missing field that no one knew about. That mistake caused an almost $2 million loss for the company. This talk will explore that journey, including Anthony’s retrospective, and how he devised an algorithm to automatically catch future breaking changes or missing fields across arbitrary APIs to ensure that kind of issue never happens again.
Many organizations mistakenly believe that simply adding Backstage to their infrastructure creates a true Internal Developer Platform. While it may offer a quick solution, Backstage alone isn't enough to achieve the full potential of platform engineering. Effective platform engineering goes beyond just the frontend (Backstage), and involves an effective platform backend as well.
It can be a challenge to build an Internal Developer Platform (IDP). For many organizations, it is common to get bogged down in months of planning, and approvals, and waste incredible amounts of time and resources. It doesn’t need to be like that, however. Humanitec has recently open-sourced a framework to get you started in five minutes (for real). This includes the OSS workload spec Score, the Humanitec Portal, and the Platform Orchestrator, running on your private Kubernetes cluster on your machine.
Building platforms for automotive embedded systems may seem very different from those for high-frequency trading in FSI or secure government services. However, universal patterns distinguish top performers from the rest. After seven years of platform building and enabling rapid innovation, we've identified key insights. Join us in a conversation to explore how to create inspiring engineering environments that unleash their full potential and creativity.
Developing a container orchestration platform can pose a significant challenge, often deterring many due to its complexity, particularly when the team lacks the necessary expertise. Numerous decisions must be made when navigating through the multitude of CNCF-certified tools available to address similar challenges. This webinar highlights how a 105-year-old company built its Internal Developer Platform using entirely open-source tools from the CNCF.
When architecting their Internal Developer Platform, teams often face key questions like how to build their backend and which portal to choose as a frontend layer. As Port has emerged as one of the most innovative and widely used portals for Internal Developer Platforms and Humanitec’s Platform Orchestrator is the de-facto enterprise standard for graph-based backends for these platforms, this webinar will highlight how their combination can answer these questions and present a bulletproof solution for the enterprise.
In this webinar, Mallory will guide you through one of the essentials of platform engineering, your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP). She will offer a clear, step-by-step approach to getting started, and then evolving your MVP into a robust, enterprise-ready solution.
Too many organizations make the mistake of slapping Backstage on top of their setup and calling it an Internal Developer Platform. This might be a quick fix, but Backstage alone is not your platform and it won’t deliver the results that platform engineering promises. Good platform engineering requires more than just the front end (Backstage), it requires a backend too.
There is one thing that every effective Internal Developer Platform (IDP) has in common. They all started from the backend. In this session, we will break down how you can design the backend for your Internal Developer Platform, how to avoid the front-end trap, and how to get the most out of your Internal Developer Platform.
Join Humanitec’s Platform Architect, Mathieu, for a hands-on workshop to design and deploy four golden paths. Learn how to build your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) to prove value quickly to internal stakeholders within just 2 hours. Just bring your laptop; we’ll handle the rest!
Platform engineering has emerged in response to the growing complexity of cloud native and the challenge of scaling DevOps in enterprises.
Explore the cutting-edge capabilities of Generative AI in enhancing observability within serverless environments. This webinar will cover how GenAI, driven by vector databases, machine learning, and transformers can transform data ingestion and log analysis. Discover the benefits of integrating AI into observability frameworks and how it simplifies automation and improves search and data analysis.
In this webinar, Mallory will break down the fundamentals of platform engineering by sharing a clear step-by-step process to transition from a Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) to a scalable enterprise-level solution.
Prometheus is the de-facto standard for gathering metrics on Kubernetes and making sure that you discover problems early - before they impact users. But setting up a well-oiled Prometheus stack is surprisingly hard! Many companies have such a high volume of daily Prometheus alerts that they end up missing critical issues among the noise.
This is the story of how Sicredi, a credit union, with over 8 million clients, 2700 branches, and over 45,000 employees embarked on building an Internal Developer Platform to serve its thousands of developers.
In this talk, Yuval Perry from WIX will present a case study on how they built their Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for more than 1,000 developers to operate over 4000 clusters of microservices. Yuval will present the learnings made through their platform engineering journey and share best practices based on their experience building an Internal Developer Platform.
In this webinar, Mallory will unravel the complexities of platform engineering. She’ll focus on providing a clear step-by-step process to transition from MVP to a scalable enterprise-level solution in a predictable way.
Building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is hard. For some teams, it can take months to get started. Humanitec open-sourced a framework to get you started in five minutes (for real). This includes the OSS workload spec Score, the Humanitec Portal and the Platform Orchestrator, running on your private Kubernetes cluster on your machine. Join Clemens to learn how to spin up your IDP in five minutes.
Want to build a platform? Why not just add Backstage or any other portal on top of your setup and call it a day? The reality is portals are (useful) interfaces to your platform. They are NOT your platform. In this talk, we’ll show how portals like Backstage are complemented by platform backends (Platform Orchestrators) to ship an Internal Developer Platform that’s ready for primetime.
Kubernetes networking can be intimidating for platform engineers, but with the right knowledge, it can become a powerful tool. Understanding the various layers of Kubernetes networking is essential for optimizing platform engineering efforts. In this webinar, Raphael will guide you through the complexities of Kubernetes networking, turning potential challenges into valuable opportunities. By the end of the session, you'll have a clearer understanding of how these networking layers can significantly enhance your platform engineering skills.
Every Internal Developer Platform (IDP) needs a proper backend, and it’s vital to start by designing and building that before you worry about anything else. Join this session and learn more how to design your platform backend right, explore which options you have and how to mitigate the frontend trap aka starting with a portal.
As an integral component of any Internal Developer Platform, Argo CD automates the self-service deployment of manifests from Git to Kubernetes, while providing unparalleled visibility for developers. Using the Akuity Platform, organizations can manage cluster services and application deployments across thousands of Kubernetes clusters without any concern for the underlying infrastructure.
The difference between local dev environments and cloud (or hybrid) environments like testing, staging, and production often creates all sorts of problems for developers. The open source workload specification Score is designed to fix this once and for all. Learn how to streamline developer experience (DevEx) from local to prod with Score and Humanitec.
Platform engineering is having its moment. Developer tools like Spotify's Backstage solve the problem of discoverability in large engineering teams by providing a one-stop source of truth through developer portals. But what then? How do you go from finding a repo to committing a PR in the shortest time possible? Coder has the solution – bring CDEs to Backstage.
If you don’t build your platform, it will build itself. Almost every organization has major parts of a platform already in place (think CI/CD, IaC, GitOps). The question is whether you keep your setup free-floating, or standardize it by building an enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
Building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is hard. For some teams, it can take months to get started.
Join this technical and practical session with Paul Revello, Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at Google, and see platform engineering in practice. Learn what an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) based on Google Cloud and Humanitec products looks like, how it improves developer experience (DevEx) and productivity, and how platform engineers use it to drive standardization and automation.
In this webinar, Mallory will break down the complexities of platform engineering and Internal Developer Platforms by focusing on a clear step-by-step process to transition from MVP to a scalable enterprise-level solution in a predictable way.
In 2024, many organizations still have concerns about adopting platform engineering and cloud technology. Join our webinar to delve into the origins of this fear and how Platform as a Safety Net can help us overcome it.
It’s been five years since the publication of Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton, which built the foundation for the platform engineering revolution. This roundtable with co-author Manuel Pais will celebrate this influential book and highlight how far we’ve come –– and still have to go.Â
Having a great developer experience that speeds up time to market through self-service is now a key competitive advantage. However, the vast majority of platform engineering initiatives fail because platform teams don’t manage to get buy-in and simply cannot get started.
“All the world’s a stage” is one of the marquee phrases from As You Like It, written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century. The phrase talks about the seven stages of life a person goes through from birth to death. But what if I said that William Shakespeare could have also written this for platforms?
With platform engineering becoming integral to the way companies build and deploy to their cloud native setups, enterprises are turning to Platform Orchestrators to ensure their Internal Developer Platforms are secure and scalable.
Please join Jordan Chernev, former Sr. Director, Platform Engineering at Wayfair, as he discusses best practices on evolving away from a centralized DevOps team to a platform engineering practice. Jordan will discuss building and supporting a global and highly scalable platform-as-a-product that enables and accelerates cloud-native development and application modernization efforts.
When enterprise teams start their platform engineering journey or scale up their Internal Developer Platform (IDP) initiative, they typically aim to achieve standardization and accelerate development as primary objectives.
Platforms are the perfect foundation to craft eco-friendlier environments, helping end users to understand and become carbon and energy-efficient. Leaving every IT department by itself to find ways to be more sustainable is a strategy for failing. From our experience, platforms play an essential part in decarbonizing IT, leading and orchestrating various efforts, and providing a unified place to make single activities a helpful product.
Platform engineering has emerged in response to the growing complexity of cloud native and the challenge of scaling DevOps to the enterprise.
This talk explores Service Level Objective (SLO) case studies and transforms whilst migrating to the serverless ecosystem.
In today's age, platform teams are playing an increasingly critical role in the success of organizations. These teams are responsible for developing and maintaining the platforms that enable businesses to innovate, grow, and compete effectively. However, building a high-performing platform team is not easy.
There is a reason why traditional network-based segmentation solutions will not work in cloud-native environments, and that’s because they are not built for it! A Kubernetes-native approach is required to isolate containerized workloads within a deployment. Kubernetes is an open system with dynamic infrastructure; microsegmentation is the only way to isolate and protect workloads from threats that can move laterally.
When you're migrating and modernizing apps, how do you take full advantage of the cloud? By refactoring apps as a set of microservices, running for a short duration when needed, and deploying into a secure container infrastructure. Then they’re ready for production. For these scenarios, the Azure Container Apps Landing Zone Accelerator can help get you started with recommended practices to speed up your production process.
Confused about IDPs? We set the record straight on Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) vs internal developer portals vs PaaS, and what it means to ship one.
Gartner says that by 2026, 80% of enterprise organizations will be rolling out a platform engineering initiative to improve developer experience and accelerate product innovation.
This talk introduces a unique approach to testing where a single shared staging environment is multiplexed to run integration tests for each pull request, as well as from developer workstations. We'll navigate the complexities of managing and scaling these tests in a Kubernetes environment, using open source components in real-world scenarios.
Building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is easy, right? You just deploy Backstage, use a Platform Orchestrator, automate DevSecOps tools. And voila, that’s it and your developers are happy. Well… not quite. Because I thought like this, I made five huge mistakes which I want to share. None of them are technical, and each hurts even more than a lack of automation.
When Broadcom closed their acquisition of VMware it was clear that the typical licensing price changes would soon come for VMware clients and partners. Especially for those 299,400 customers that Broadcom has officially announced they don't care about as they prioritize only the top 600 customers.
From Internal Developer Platforms to Platform Orchestrators, Platform engineering isn’t just the future, it’s here. However most organizations, still haven’t figured out the best way to rapidly unlock the power of platform engineering.
From emerging startups to enterprises, MACH Architecture is growing in popularity. However, continued reliance on RESTful APIs keeps turning any microservices attempt into a distributed monolith.
What if you could run “Terraform apply” and have a fully integrated Internal Developer Platform (IDP) running? What about having a starting point for your own IDP journey - reached in an hour instead of spending weeks or months at the drawing board? Imagine having a way to include all customization capabilities and extension points to ensure your platform meets the unique needs of your users (developers).
In this webinar Mallory will unravel the complexities of platform engineering, and provide a clear step-by-step process to transition from a Minimum Viable Platform to a scalable enterprise-level solution – in a predictable way.
Join our webinar to uncover the mystery behind Loom's recent outage! We'll break down the complex factors that led to this unforeseeable event and share research findings on tackling unknowns that could be used when building a platform.
Simple and efficient development of cloud-native applications still poses significant challenges for many teams. In addition to the implementation of features and microservices, developers are now often also responsible for building the required cloud services with Infrastructure as Code Ă la Terraform. Unfortunately, this quickly leads to high cognitive overload and suboptimal solutions. So it's better to use a more K8s-native approach.
Gartner says that by 2025, 75% of enterprise organizations will be rolling out a platform engineering initiative to improve developer experience and accelerate product innovation.
From Internal Developer Platforms to Platform Orchestrators, Platform engineering isn’t just the future, it’s here. Most organizations however, still haven’t figured out the best way to rapidly unlock the power of platform engineering.
Join Sören Martius from Terramate as he explores breaking down large-state Terraform projects into stacks for faster execution, limiting blast radius, and writing less code to do the same amount of work. Discover the power of code generation to automate the creation of Terraform config files, minimizing maintenance efforts for backend, and provider definitions using the Don’t Repeat Yourself, or DRY methodology.
Building a platform can be like trying to design an iPhone without having ever used a phone before. Sometimes it works, but most of the time, it doesn't.
Platform engineering is about smart abstractions. Whether one likes it or one doesn’t. But how do you design them without getting in the users' way?
