What are composable abstractions and why should you care

Restricting developers by enforcing standardization and abstractions is a risky game. You might create fewer errors, but you risk ending up with a frustrated team and limited innovation. But how to achieve both, high velocity of innovation and a continuous app-dev assembly line?

Andrew (SVP of Product Management at MongoDB) and Kaspar (Humanitec’s CEO) will discuss the value of open, composable abstractions to align Dev and Ops, while limiting cognitive load on developers and speeding up release cycles.

They will cover:

• The value and risk of abstraction

• How to design and apply “open, composable abstractions”

• What platform engineering means for your organization

After a 30 minutes talk, there will be 15 minutes for Q&A. We’d like to encourage you to submit your questions in advance.

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Speakers:
Andrew Davidson
SVP Products at MongoDB
Andrew Davidson, a Silicon Valley native who lives in NYC, is the SVP of Product Management at MongoDB with a focus on MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB's global developer data platform. He previously worked on scaling mapping operations at Google, has a background in physics, and has lived extensively in South Asia.

Kaspar von Grünberg
CEO at Humanitec
Kaspar is the founder of Humanitec. He has spent the last 10 years building and running software companies from retail applications and door-to-door campaigning technology to monitoring and evaluation for NGOs. His observations of common startup development challenges during this time ultimately became Humanitec’s founding vision.