Increasing complexity in software development leads to high cognitive load and reduced productivity for developers.
An optimal developer experience focuses on reducing cognitive load, enabling a flow state, and providing fast feedback loops.
An IDP is a platform built by a platform team to enable developer self-service with guardrails and best practices.
Golden paths are pre-architected, supported workflows for building software that enforce best practices, originating from a concept by Spotify.
Platform engineers act as product managers, UX experts, and developer advocates for the internal platform they build and maintain.
Backstage is a popular open source IDP from the CNCF, with Red Hat Developer Hub providing an enterprise-grade version.
The portal provides a single pane of glass with a Tech Radar, learning paths, and catalogs for existing software and APIs.
A software template is used to automatically generate a new microservice, including its source code and GitOps repositories.
The scaffolded component view centralizes access to pipelines, GitOps status, Kubernetes monitoring, and technical documentation via plugins.
Developers can launch a pre-configured, in-browser IDE like Dev Spaces directly from the component view to start coding immediately.
Software templates are defined using YAML files that specify input parameters, actions, and the UI layout via a catalog-info.yaml file.
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Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
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