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.
Platform engineering has emerged as a solution to the increasing complexity of cloud-native environments and the difficulties enterprises face in scaling DevOps.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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?
Starting your platform engineering journey may not be as easy as you think. With lots of tools to choose from, finding the right one can be a bit tricky, but we're here to help!
Is multicloud something you strive for? The reality is multicloud more often than not is a need, not a want. Luckily, Kaspar will show you how to architect IDPs that work smoothly across any estate.
Well-designed Internal Developer Platforms are a gamechanger for developer experience, productivity and happiness. Let’s experience this together.
Platform engineering has emerged in response to the growing complexity of cloud native and the challenge of scaling DevOps to the enterprise. Backstage played a key role in popularizing the importance of building a layer on top of your cloud-native stack to enable developer self-service. But its implementation and adoption can be very tricky, and it’s often not the answer to a lot of the challenges enterprise organizations face. Humanitec complements Backstage to make it truly ready for an enterprise rollout.
During this webinar, we'll explore Kubernetes resource management, including its basics, best practices, and real-world situations. We'll discuss how requests and limits simplify Linux kernel capabilities and affect Kubernetes scheduling. We'll cover Quality of Service (QoS) classes, explaining how Kubernetes measures usage and handles node pressure. Finally, we'll demonstrate how to use Resource Quotas and Limit Ranges to manage large-scale Kubernetes deployments.
Many teams want to start their platforming journey by moving to a GitOps workflow. The standardization and automation that are core traits of any GitOps workflow could be the first step towards more consistency, maturity, and determining what a sound Internal Developer Platform (IDP) even looks like.
Internal Developer Platforms using a Platform Orchestrator drive an unparalleled degree of standardization, enabling developer self-service at scale.
Why do developers ask platform/DevOps teams to troubleshoot issues for them? Is there a gap in knowledge and skills, or is there a gap in ownership and desire?
How do you position platform engineering with your managers? How do you actually position ANYTHING with your managers? How do managers set prios? And execute them? Kaspar has more than a decade of C-Level experience and he lives platform engineering every day. Who better to explain how to hack managers?
Explore the transformative potential of modern authorization solutions, such as Authorization as a Service and policy engines, as traditional home-grown options prove inadequate. Join us as we unravel the distinctions between policy engines and authorization services, while uncovering strategies to address scalability and latency challenges through Google Zanzibar—a groundbreaking solution reshaping authorization on a grand scale.
You’ve seen how to operate your reference architecture-based IDP in the first workshop. The question you’re probably pondering right now, before you take the next step and launch an instance of it in your own cloud account, is: is the opinionated approach that is promising me speed on the platform side going to slow me down on the integration side?
Discover Comparethemarket’s journey from a 5-year self-managed K8s to building a platform that became a strategic solution. Learn how they overcame legacy design flaws, enabled new capabilities, and executed a seamless migration strategy.
Join Sören Martius, CEO of Terramate, as he explores breaking down monolithic Terraform projects into stacks for faster execution and limiting blast radius. Discover the power of code generation to automate the creation of Terraform config files, minimizing maintenance efforts for backend, and provider definitions.
A target for cloud maturity is to deploy cloud infrastructure quickly and securely while staying within budget. We discuss how organizations can level up their cloud maturity with Terraform and GitOps, and how the declarative nature of Terraform enables powerful, open-source static analysis tools like Checkov and Infracost. We’ll also explore how to overcome potential roadblocks like Terraform drift and uncodified resources.
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.
Discover the biggest misconception about platform engineering. It's not just about driving more visibility but creating secure, user-friendly, and maintainable repositories.
