Make Developers Fly – Helping developers to build better applications

Make Developers Fly – Helping developers to build better applications

Platform Engineering is the next stage of DevOps and accelerates software developers even more to build applications faster and bring products rapidly to the customers. In this meetup, we show you the key principles of platform engineering, as we experienced them in our projects, and additionally show you a better way to manage your internal software platforms.

*** AGENDA ***

• 6.30 PM | Doors open. Grab some snacks & drinks.

• 6.45 PM | Welcome & Intro

• 7.00 PM | Principles for platform engineering, Alex Krause

• ~7.45 PM | Introduction to Backstage, Jannis Schäfer

• afterwards: More snacks & drinks, and a lot of time for networking with all attendees and speakers.

*** ABSTRACTS ***

Talk 1: Principles for platform engineering by Alex

How do we help our developers to fly instead of crashing miserablely? The answer is Platform Engineering, a discipline for building internal developer platforms (IDPs) to simplify software delivery for product teams. In this talk, you'll learn how Platform Engineering evolved from the DevOps movement and what principles and best practices make for a good implementation. Finally, we'll take a look at reference architectures that can support your platform.

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Talk 2: Introduction to Backstage by Jannis

Internal platforms often feature numerous tools and configurations, which can be overwhelming for developers. Finding specific links or understanding where services are running often requires a seasoned colleague's help or a Confluence search. But does it need to be so complex? In this talk, we'll introduce Backstage, a developer portal toolkit by Spotify, now overseen by the CNCF. Backstage aggregates data from various sources, providing ready-to-use templates, including best practices for Spring Boot Services. We'll explore how to make Backstage the go-to for developers on your platform.

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