Designing respectful abstractions

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?
Platform engineering is abstraction first, visualization second; most people get this wrong already. But how do you abstract correctly? How do you prevent taking context? How do you drive standardization? Should you standardize integrated or modular? Around what entity should you design the abstraction?
During this webinar, Kaspar will:

• Talk about the why and what of abstraction.
• Discussing patterns of successful abstractions.
• Discuss the pros and cons of each approach.

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@humanitec.com
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, now the centerpiece of most enterprise-grade IDPs.