KubeCon 25 - London - CNCF Learning Lounge

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1. From Developer To Platform Engineer Mauricio Salatino (@Salaboy) April ‘25 - London UK
2. @Salaboy Mauricio Salatino https://salaboy.com I consider myself a Developer
3. How did a developer ended up writing a book about Platform Engineering? • I started writing the book in 2020 • Published it in 2023 • Very practical approach, no fluff just tech • I like helping teams to be more efficient while delivering software
4. Book Chapters • Intro • CI/CD • GitOps • Building a Platform (provisioning a development environment) • Platform Capabilities • Release Strategies • Enabling Developers with feature flags and APIs • Measuring platform initiatives with DORA
5. Book Repository: step-by-step tutorials https://github.com/salaboy/platforms-on-k8s Help needed! 󰏅 󰑔 100% 󰎩 100% 󰎼 100% 󰏦 100% 󰐨󰎙 25% 󰏃 25%
6. So… you are a developer
7. How do we get work done? 1.
8. How do we get work done? 1.
9. Inner vs Outer Loop 1.
10. Inner vs Outer Loop - in more detail 1.
11. Inner Loop Tools
12. Multiple teams producing software
13. Challenges when you have a lot of developers 1. “It works on my machine” 2. Different teams try to solve the same problems in different ways 3. Without effective system integrations and shared patterns productivity suffers
14. How can we mitigate these challenges?
15. Some ideas 1. Shifting left, learn Kubernetes 2. Think about cross-cutting concerns 3. Create abstractions, define APIs
16. The platform approach
17. As a developer you can … 1. Identify what is slowing you and other teams 2. Contribute with project templates and shared libraries 3. Understand which challenges can be solved at the platform-level instead of at the application-level
18. You should check these tools… https://containers.dev/
19. DevEx on K8s • Understand how to optimize developer workflows to increase developer satisfaction • Scale up your knowledge to drive platform engineering initiatives that boost developer productivity • Hands-on experience with a wide range of tools across languages and stacks https://www.manning.com/books/developer-experience-on-kubernetes
20. Thanks! @salaboy / @daprdev / @diagridio dapr.io diagrid.io diagrid.io