Platform Eng Day Keynote: Make Workloads, not Infrastructure

Will Stewart's keynote at Platform Engineering Day, co-located with KubeCon NA 2024, addresses the escalating complexity of cloud infrastructure and its impact on developers, emphasizing the need for better abstractions than traditional tools like Terraform and YAML. Drawing from his experience as Co-Founder & CEO of Northflank, a Kubernetes app platform, Stewart argues for a shift in approach by starting from the application level and working backward towards infrastructure, rather than the conventional method of beginning with infrastructure. He highlights the importance of unified abstractions that encapsulate essential elements such as logging, metrics, disaster recovery, autoscaling, preview environments, and release management to enhance the developer experience and allow app developers to focus on delivering valuable workloads. Stewart suggests that by reducing complexity and abstracting intricate cloud management details, developers can operate more effectively without being bogged down by infrastructure tasks. Northflank serves as both a framework for building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and an example of how a polished developer experience can be achieved on Kubernetes.

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