Platform Engineers Atlanta

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.

In this webinar, you'll learn about the importance of having a frontend and a backend for your platform. Kaspar will highlight how to integrate open-source platform interfaces like Score and Backstage with a Platform Orchestrator like Humanitec to create a robust, enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP).

We'll explore:

• Combining Backstage as the platform frontend and a Platform Orchestrator as the backend to build a platform developers love
• Using IDP reference architectures as blueprints for enterprise solutions
• A live demo showcasing the developer experience on a fully-featured platform

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.
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Speaker:
Kaspar Von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec
Kaspar is an early pioneer in platform engineering. Over the last decade he has been building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) at scale, and is responsible for coining the term IDP. A regular speaker on the topic of platform engineering, Kaspar is the author of several associated defining articles. He is also the founder and CEO of Humanitec, the company behind Score and the Platform Orchestrator which is now the centerpiece at the majority of dynamic IDPs.

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.

This webinar will be a dive into relevant cryptography primitives, which make it possible to perform such analysis at scale. It will discuss:

• The challenge of legacy service migrations
• Flattening real-time API streams into a form that can be analyzed
• Merkle trees and how they can be applied to catching breaking changes

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.
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Speaker:
Anthony Alaribe, Co-founder of APItoolkit
Anthony has spent over a decade building high-throughput software at companies like Opera, and DeliveryHero. He has faced his fair share of dealing with system unreliability and large scale incidents at these companies.

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.

We will work through:

• How to utilize Backstage as a portal, Score (CNCF Sandbox) as workload spec, Terraform for IaC, and Humanitec Platform Orchestrator as the graph-based backend of your platform
• How to build golden paths for use cases like ephemeral environments or the management of resource dependencies
• How to centralize security and governance for any applications in your organization

A workshop recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Mathieu Benoit, Customer Success Engineer at Humanitec
Problem solver.
Passionate about Kubernetes, Security and Platform Engineering.
Developer, Cloud Architect, Platform Engineer, Learner, Dad, Tennisman.

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.

In this webinar, Mallory will cover:

• The key building blocks of an MVP and how to construct one effectively
• Common mistakes to avoid during MVP development
• Proven strategies for scaling your platform and gaining organizational buy-in

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.
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Speaker:
Mallory Haigh, Director of Customer Success at Humanitec
Mallory is Humanitec's Director of Customer Success with a background in customer support and success, full-stack software engineering, engineering management, and focusing on the strength of intersection of humans and technology. She brings a passion for education, the anthropological approach to human-computer interaction, and improving developer experience to her role at Humanitec. When not connecting people with their platforms, Mallory is an avid equestrian and hobby farmer, and also a cat and dog mom.